Parts Work: Trauma-Informed IFS

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Parts Work: Trauma-Informed IFS

Administered by Colleen West, Trauma-Informed IFS consultant & trainer in the San Francisco Bay Area. What is trauma-informed psychotherapy?

When traumas occur, they often get recorded on an "island" of the brain, cut off from communication with the rest of our brains. Since these islands don't get the benefit of new information, those memories exist in us, frozen in time. They are frozen in PARTS. There are many therapy models that work with 'parts', Internal Family Systems, Structural Dissociation, and Schema Therapy to name three. I believe EMDR is also a 'parts' therapy--because our traumatic memories are stored in parts--but this is not explicit in the model. Helping a client to understand and work with their parts, can be non-pathologizing, and can greatly improve their progress!

10/25/2026

It works for me!

10/24/2026

Interesting science…

10/08/2026

Wow. Didn’t know the numbers!

09/26/2026

It’s so much easier to stay calm and patient as a grandma than a mama.

09/09/2026

Yep. Who can relate?

09/08/2026

Rejection sensitivity…

08/14/2026

Sounds familiar to me… and under stress, it still feels like second nature. 🫩

06/17/2026

Biodiversity for kids.

06/12/2026

Good reminder.

06/12/2026

Spot on. 🫩

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El Cerrito, CA
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