What is Internal Family Systems Therapy? IFS Explained

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🔵 CHAPTERS

0:00 IFS and multiplicity
1:21 Manager parts
1:48 Firefighter parts
2:49 Exiled parts
4:08 The Self
5:25 IFS Exercise

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[gypsylady]

IFS has helped me more than any other therapy I've tried. Talk therapy does not work for me. I am so grateful to have found a therapist in my area who is certified in this type of therapy.

[LOVE_ALL_AROUND]

All my years of therapy and never heard of this yet makes so much sense! Thank you.

[danter]

Just listening to this makes me emotional.
I guess I have an exile who is very young. And sometimes I deeply miss it, to the point of crying.

[SoulMedia]

I identify very much with the way I have been experiencing life, and the way that model works . It is a great way to introduce integration

[nicholasmarshall]

I am in IFS training right now. Love it!

[dianechaniewski]

This was a great illustration. I've been doing IFS for four months now and it has been so incredibly healing.

[TheNetworkGovernment]

If one does anything practical in his work, 'firefighter' can't be avoided, it is just a question in which form it is. Problems are fixed and handled as they appear, on the fly.

[Grindstaff]

Excellent!! Simply presented, good graphics, had an exercise for subjective meditation.

[christchaik]

You've outdone yourself once again. I will keep this gem for my nightly troubles.

[andreabroomfiled]

Wow ! What a brilliant video. Thank you for making IFS so much more understandable to me. Loved the exercise at the end.

[thesoulsworkpodcast]

Thank you! ❤ I'd also recommend the book Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy by Susan McConnell. Really highlights the somatic/body aspect of this method!

[marionmcnee]

Thanks for the clear explanation Teresa. I found it very easy to follow and understand.

[danbonham]

Your videos are excellent, very helpful! Thank You!

[NicoleBarden-Writer]

This was a very informative video and very easy to understand. I have been doing IFS for a few years now and it is life changing. I wish everyone would make the time to get to know their parts. IFS should be taught in school.

[willmurphy]

Wow, amazing video, incredibly clear, thankyou....

[mortalclown]

The work of Robert Falconer combines SRT (spirit releasement therapy) with IFS and it's made an enormous difference in folks' lives, tho it's heterodox in all the ways.

Here's to merging of these modalities. Great video.

[royeastland-drawing]

Interesting exercise. I’ve only done this just the once, just now, but I noticed that it felt sort of good to ever-so-slightly 'see'/feel/sense (…?) that ‘part of me’ that was/is presently feeling worried, miserable and lacking a clear enough focus on things to do the things I need to do, work wise. My sense of it is like an imagined physical presence, movement, shape and so on (one part 'me-me' and another part also 'me'), rather than anything I could accurately put words to or names to. Maybe I’m not doing this exercise right, but for me it seems to be almost a physical thing - sort of like the act of drawing, ‘seeing’ musical forms/patterns/etc, touch or physically making something. This might not make any sense to anyone else out there but I thought it might be worthwhile adding my experience of this exercise to the general mix of comments. I’ll try this exercise again when I get time. My feeling is that there is something useful to be got from it. A bit dream-like in some ways. Anyway, cuppa tea and back to work.

[sandyellis]

You’ve done a great job there, thank you ❤️ IFS has been so helpful and workable. Very clever of Richard Schwartz to come up with it.

[dianehill]

THANK YOU! This is one of the clearest explanations of IFS I've seen so far!

[davidl]

I just heard of IFS today. This reminds me a lot of Transactional Analysis!