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Purely IFS is for you if you are a mental health professional who is transitioning to using the Internal Family Systems model with clients. Hosted by IFS psychotherapists Gayle Williamson and Emma Redfern, this show aims to support IFS beginners by offering clarity and discussion on the various aspects of the model and the key skills. We're also hoping that you'll get many useful additions to your IFS vocabulary and that our podcast will keep you engaged with learning this amazing approach. ...
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Send us a text IN part two of our focus on polarisations we look at polarisations involving more than two parts, polarisations across systems, eg, between client and therapist or parent and child; and addictive processes. We also discuss navigating conflicts in the wider world and how we can bring more Self to difficult conversations. *Details of t…
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Send us a text After taking a break for summer, we're back with a new episode focusing on polarisations. Being able to detect relationships between parts, particularly parts who are fighting against each other, has lots of benefits - including reducing the inner conflict that many people experience as well as easing any stuckness a client may be ex…
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Send us a text In today's episode, we’re focusing on parts detecting - a key IFS skill to develop that is crucial to maintaining confidence and clarity in the work. We cover: - 'Universal truth' parts - The weaponising of parts - flexible thinking and not boxing parts in - examples of interesting parts detected - as well as a parts detecting test f…
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How our parts affect our health: part two
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Send us a text IN today's fascinating episode, the second of two on this topic, we're focusing on how parts affect our health, how our bodies affect our parts and how body sensations and illnesses can be approached as valuable trailheads. We discuss how there is no separation between mind and body; the concept of 'unwellness'; the ingenuity of diss…
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Send us a text IN today's fascinating episode, which is part one of two, we're focusing on how parts affect our health, how our bodies affect our parts and how body sensations and illnesses can be approached as valuable trailheads. Among several interesting case examples, Gayle describes: - helping a pregnant client talk to her baby - highlighting …
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Send us a text In today's episode, we're hoping to inspire therapists to embrace the variety that IFS brings to supervision. We cover a lot, including: · Examples of individual and group IFS supervision · Differentiating the role of the IFSI Approved Clinical Consultant and IFS supervision · The importance of regular supervision, e.g. when consciou…
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Send us a text IN today's episode, it's part two of our focus on the updating process and meeting Self. We look at a fairly advanced case example in detail and go through it step by step. The case - involving Hazel**, and her parts Coco (an exile) and Storeen (a protector) - highlights the importance of persistence (one of the 5Ps of the therapist …
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Send us a text Today we focus on updating parts - a process that is much more than just telling a part your present day, adult age. There are many reasons why we do the update with protectors, but it's particularly helpful in negotiating a Self-to-part relationship. We describe various scenarios you often face during updating and provide a lot of t…
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Send us a text TRIGGER WARNING: We discuss how to talk to suicidal parts from around the 24-minute mark, but we don't go into any detail about a particular experience of suicide. On today's show, we discuss the vital skill of direct access, and in particular, what we call broadcast direct access. It's an aspect of direct access that doesn't get muc…
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Send us a text In this our first episode, we talk about why we wanted to do this podcast, why we think IFS is best used without integrating other approaches and explore what is meant by saying that IFS is a complete model. We also discuss: the mixed messaging about how IFS should be used. the benefits of knowing that IFS has just about everything y…
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