The Parts Party

Max Littman is a gay male therapist in Oakland, California. He specializes in relationship counseling, therapy for work burnout, LGBTQ+ therapy, and trauma therapy, with a particular emphasis on gay and queer men and childhood trauma. Much of this comes from lived experience. When it comes to being gay, Max says he knows what it’s like to grow up sensing something is different before there is lang...

Emma Diamond is the first IFS Institute trainer in the Australia, New Zealand region. She is a psychotherapist and child and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience across a variety of presentations and contexts. Emma is known for her warm, creative and clear facilitation, her supportive and empowering presence and her love of the natural world, dance and playfulness. We were delight...

Dr Annabel McGoldrick is a Psychotherapist, IFS Therapist and EMDR consultant. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, where she taught Peace of Mind and Conflict Resolving Media for several years as part of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. This meditation 'Therapy for the World' supports parts who are grieving and challenged by world events. Offering loving kindness to parts, and...

Dr Annabel McGoldrick is an International trainer, writer, EMDR consultant, Level 2 IFS Practitioner and clinical psychotherapist. Annabel’s real passion is finding and enabling ways to help people resolve their conflicts both inside and out. Annabel has been a psychotherapist for almost 25 years, including working as a family therapist at Australia’s leading addiction treatment centre,South Pacif...

Marisa Bertello is a Clinical Psychologist and IFS Therapist and Clinical Supervisor. She has a caring and client-centred approach that values respect, empathy, and the strength of the human spirit. Psychology is Marisa’s second career, following many rewarding years working in small business.  Marisa shares experiences of learning to trust and be with her parts, and speaks about a part that guide...

Adapted from William Baldwin. Bob says "This meditation was developed as a way for people to protect themselves from what Baldwin called Negative Energies. I believe it’s more effective than creating a boundary or a wall. Protectors tend to attract what they fear the most, and walls tend to do that, too. If you practice this meditation often, it can become a tool to quickly protect you from the en...

Bob Falconer is an IFS Therapist and author of 'The Others Within Us' co-authored with Richard Schwartz. In this episode, Bob shares his own history- one of extreme sadistic child abuse; sexual, physical, emotional, and spiritual. His brother suicided when they were teenagers, his mother was in and out of mental hospitals, and his father was murdered when Bob was 21. His work in therapy was motiva...

You probably know Tisha Shull as the host of IFS Talks. In this wonderful episode, we had the joy of interviewing her. Tisha is a seasoned psychotherapist, clinical trainer, and IFS consultant with over a decade of experience specializing in complex trauma, anxiety disorders, and mind-body healing. She generously and tenderly shares a transformative experience of working with Cece Sykes on grief r...

Our Guest for episode 13 is Scott Doniger, a Chronic Stress Counseling and Jungian LifeStage Coach, based in Boulder, Colorado. He guides people (of any age, race, gender, or sexual orientation) stuck in chronic stress and unresolved physical illness to find a smoother way to live. He is the author of 'Hijacked' a book about common parts that people encounter and how they take us over. Scott is an...

This meditation is an invitation to hear from parts of your system that use shaming. (While also giving full permission to instead stay with parts that are not ready to get to know the shaming part/s, if that is what is needed.) A lovely opportunity to experience some IFS, led with much Self Energy by the wonderful Stephanie Mitchell . Stephanie is offering a 'Shame Sanctuary' retreat in QLD Austr...

Stephanie Mitchell is a Level 3 Certified IFS Therapist working in private practice on the Sunshine Coast. She specialises in working with adults who have experienced labels of early developmental trauma, BPD and psychosis and is currently undertaking research on IFS and psychosis, in a collaboration between the University California San Francisco and Flinders Uni.   This episode is a wonderful op...

Dr Loranie Leas, is a clinical/health psychologist and Psychology Board approved supervisor and she is a certified administrator and coder for the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Loranie is also an approved IFSI consultant and is currently a co-lead mentee trainer for IFSI. During this episode of the Parts Party, Loranie shares about working with and unburdening a caretaking part of herself- lea...

Ruth Culver is a Level 3 trained, & certified IFS practitioner based in Brighton UK where she works with adults and adolescents, as well as offering experiential workshops and trainings both in person and online. Her systemic interest in trauma, attachment and resilience led to the creation of "The Survive/Thrive Spiral” - an info-graphic which maps the inter-relatedness of IFS and Polyvagal T...

Cath Leith is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Trainer, Therapist and Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. She has recently completed the Lead Trainer Program with the IFS Institute and helps with the teaching of Level 1 trainings for IFS Australia and New Zealand.  In this episode of the Parts Party, Cath introduces us to an inner critic- a part I'm sure we can all relate to. Cath...

Life will always have moments that are upsetting and distressing. In these moments, parts of us get activated, and try to do their best to help us cope. They buzz with anxiety, they try to fix, they focus on others or they find ways to numb us out. This meditation might be helpful in moments where you feel blended or taken over by a part. We hope you find it supportive. 

Martin Toré is the creator of IFS Buddy, an AI tool for Internal Family Systems self-therapy that gained traction overnight and now helps thousands of people worldwide, has been showcased at major healthcare conferences, and universities are reaching out to include it in their research. Martin was previously a physiotherapist, and he talks about how working with people living with chronic pain led...

An Internal Family Systems Meditation to know and connect with parts, shared by Rebecca O'Calloghan.

Rebecca O'Callaghan is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist based in Ireland. She shares her journey of understanding herself as a system of parts; from being a child who was conflicted with knowing she was both a 'good girl' and a 'bad girl', to studying Gestalt Therapy and being particularly drawn to the chair work and working with parts through this model. Rebecca discusses flow states...

This meditation is a lovely taster of the many beautiful meditations and experiential exercises in Laura's book ' Awakening to Love' Laura Patryas, PhD, is a psycho-spiritual counsellor and IFS practitioner. She utilizes the latest scientific insights alongside embodied nonduality, offering a unique and universal path to healing. With over 20 years of research and personal exploration, Laura bring...

Laura is a spiritual teacher and IFS therapist, as well as a researcher and author with a PhD in psychophysics. She first encountered IFS ten years ago—by accident—when she mistakenly signed up for what she thought was a Family Constellations workshop. Instead, it turned out to be an IFS Constellations workshop, which helped her to powerfully connect with her grieving and anxious parts. In this ep...

This is an IFS meditation to get to know bodily pain or symptoms that have no structural cause. It is based on somatic tracking, a tool in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) that helps us observe pain and symptoms from a place of safety. IFS helps us get to this calm, compassionate place by taking care of the parts that are naturally worried about the pain. We then listen to the sensation and see wha...

Manya Ronay is a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner and Certified Health Education Specialist. Originally from the USA and living in Israel, Manya shares openly about how her inner system has adapted to living in war time. We discuss parts that come up around eating and food, how time with family activates our parts and how chronic illness can show up with a message to slow down when manager parts...

Amitayus Syzygy is an IFS Therapist from Phoenix, Arizona. He joins this episode of the parts party, sharing early experiences of loss, how thousands of hours of spiritual practices brought beautiful insights and experiences but ultimately did not change deep seated patterns in his relationships and how through Internal Family Systems he learnt to look after his own inner children, rather than hop...

A 15min meditation to connect and hear from different parts, using a visualisation of parts around a campfire of Self Energy, based on the principles of Internal Family Systems model of therapy created by Richard Schwartz. More info:  IFS Australia: https://mindbeyond.com.au/ IFS Institute: https://ifs-institute.com/ Ella: https://ellashannon.com/ Adriana: https://adriananaraicounselling.com.au/  

Dean Hilton joins us this episode, sharing about the deep integration of 'being parts and Self' in his life, and patterns of ruminating / looping thought and how he has worked with this through Internal Family Systems . He is an IFS therapist from Melbourne, who has spent his life integrating the healing meditation and body practises of Eastern traditions with evidence-based modalities to provide...