Internal Family Systems
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Early in 2016 I had the pleasure of attending the first advanced IFS clinician's training workshop run in Australia. It was run in Melbourne by Bonnie Weiss, a psychotherapist from New York with an extensive background in therapy. She is married to Jay Earley who has written several self-therapy books on this subject.
After attending many workshops for 'new' therapies over the last few decades, this is one of the few that have impressed as a real development over existing therapies. While building on core psychodynamic principles, it's a model that makes it easier to understand how it all works and how it plays out in our life. One of its greatest strengths is how 'portable' it is for you to take home and continue to work with it. IFS is now listed on NREPP as an evidence-based practice NREPP is the National Registry for Evidence-based Programs and Practices, a national repository that is maintained by the U.S. government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Interventions listed in NREPP, now including IFS, have been subject to independent, rigorous scrutiny and are deemed to show significant impact on individual outcomes relating to mental health. Wikipedia provides a good overview of IFS here. For greater detail visit the official site here. To the left is an interview with Jay Earley, mentioned above, one of the primary writers and therapists in the IFS field. |