Freeing Self: IFS Beyond the Therapy Room

by Emma Redfern, Helen Foot

Freeing IFS Beyond the Therapy Room showcases how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is being used in settings beyond the therapy room in New Zealand, the US, Australia, and the UK and Europe. These include intuitive drawing groups, online with groups of black men, at the nutritionists and physiotherapists, in yoga classes, and at summer camp. The book highlights the impact of IFS when working with a multiplicity of decision-making, intimate partner betrayal, gender and sexual identity, money burdens, and legacy, collective, cultural and unattached burdens, body tensions/holding as well as struggles around food and the body. The contributors detail their unique experiences of combining IFS with their passion or purpose in life, and of sharing the model with professional colleagues.
This book provides hope and vision for those trained in IFS with or without a prior therapy training who may at times feel invisible, othered, or alienated by the historical dominance of therapy culture within IFS Institute trainings.

288 pages, Paperback

Published September 17, 2023

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