A Comprehensive Guide to Applying Internal Family Systems Across Modalities, Populations, & Clinical Presentations
(Co-Author and Senior Editor)
A professional and personal resource exploring applications of parts work across contexts, including:
Addiction • Adoption • Ancestral healing • Asian & Pacific Islander clients • Black, Indigenous, & people of color • Couples • Disordered eating • EMDR • Enneagram • Gender identity • Groups • Latinx clients • Neurodivergence • Parenting • Play therapy • Polyvagal theory • Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy • Psychodrama • Sandtray • Sexual orientation • Sexuality • Somatic practices.
IFS Integration
In this skillfully curated collection, IFS clinician, author, and editor Jenna Riemersma brings together 30 leading IFS practitioners to share their expertise in applying the transformative principles of the IFS model across diverse clients, communities, and therapeutic approaches.
Written for clinicians and laypersons at all IFS skill levels, each chapter is a standalone guide for integrating IFS with a specific topic. With practical insights, actionable strategies, and appendices for additional application and learning, chapters include IFS integration with:
Addiction • Adoption • Ancestral healing • Asian & Pacific Islander clients • Black, Indigenous, & people of color • Couples • Disordered eating • EMDR • Enneagram • Gender identity • Groups • Latinx clients • Neurodivergence • Parenting • Play therapy • Polyvagal theory • Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy • Psychodrama • Sandtray • Sexual orientation • Sexuality • Somatic practices
IFS Integration features a powerhouse group of expert contributors hoping to expand access to IFS and celebrate diverse and inclusive expressions of Self-leadership in the world.
Led by Dr. Richard Schwartz, the founder of the IFS model, authors include: Dr. Frank Anderson, Dr. Mona Barbera, Chris Burris, Dr. Sand Chang, Candice Christiansen, Marcella Cox, Dr. Daphne Fatter, Fatimah Finney, Carmen Jimenez-Pride, Mary Kruger, Kathy Mackechney, Meg Martinez-Dettamanti, Susan McConnell, Dr. Suzan McVicker, Dr. Nancy Morgan, Gregg Paisley, Halie Parmalee, Pete Patton, Leslie Petruk, Patricia Rich, Dr. Alexia Rothman, Joan Ryan, Gaby Satarino, Valerie Simon, Tammy Sollenberger, Julia Sullivan, Cece Sykes, and Regina Wei.
(Previously published as Altogether Us)
Holly Johnson, LCSW
IFS Therapist
“This book is such a gift to the IFS community. Jenna Riemersma has brought together an incredible group of practitioners and created a collection that feels both accessible and profoundly wise. Each chapter stands on its own, which makes it easy to pick up the book, open anywhere, and immediately learn something you can apply with clients or in your own inner work.
It’s rare to find a resource that feels this comprehensive and this alive. You can feel the care, the humility, and the depth of experience behind every chapter. I’m so grateful this book exists, and I know I’ll return to it again and again.”
Welcome
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As an author, speaker, therapist, and clinical consultant, I’ve spent decades helping people make sense of what feels painful, confusing, and stuck. Together we can find a more compassionate way forward.
My work weaves together clinical insight, spiritual dimensionality, and lived experience to support meaningful change that unfolds over time – without pressure or performance.