How Did We End Up Arguing About Our Entire Relationship? Attachment, protective parts, and finding your way back to each other with IFIO And IFS.
Explore how attachment patterns, protective parts, and nervous system responses affect communication in relationships. Learn practical ways to slow conflict, understand each other, and reconnect through an IFS and IFIO couples therapy approach.
IFS-Informed EMDR: Why Integrate IFS and EMDR for Complex Trauma?
Complex trauma is rarely just a collection of painful memories. IFS-informed EMDR gives us a way to understand the protective patterns that developed around those experiences while using EMDR to help update the traumatic learning underneath them.
What to Do When Your Partner Won’t Listen
We have all been there. You know what you feel. You are pretty sure you have explained it clearly. Yet the person across from you still does not get it.
Worse, they are talking over you, telling you how you should feel, or offering advice about how to see things differently. Basically: Here is why I am right, and why your experience does not make sense.
Clinicians: Five Things You Should Know Before EMDR Training
You know you need something robust, and almost magical, to give you a framework for helping those hard to help clients, many of whom have buckets of trauma and no shortage of present-day struggles.
Here are a few things I wish I knew before I walked into my Basic EMDR Training.
IFS and EMDR Integration: Self-energy & Adaptive Neural Networks
As the popularity of IFS surges, IFS and EMDR integration is coming up more and more frequently during clinical consultation calls. Both of these modalities are powerful and complex tools for treating trauma and related issues, and bringing them together can result in a smoother, more attuned and effective healing experience.
Here are a few key concepts and a practice to help you begin to integrate these modalities to foster wellbeing and resiliency, for yourself and your clients.