MOVE TOWARD

A Simplified IFS  
Therapy Tool to  
Welcome all Parts of You

A practical, 3-step guide to welcome all parts of you with compassion, to address relational conflict with clarity, and to navigate cultural battles with calm and courage.

What if the things you don’t like about yourself aren’t character flaws - but parts of you doing their best to protect you?

The inner critic. Anxiety. People-pleasing. Anger.
That wall you’ve built around your heart.
What if you stopped fighting against these parts of yourself and moved toward them instead?

Move Toward

A Simplified IFS Therapy Tool to Welcome All Parts of You

In this relatable and refreshingly real guide, best-selling author and therapist Jenna Riemersma shows you how.

Drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy – an approach rooted in the belief that all parts are welcome – Jenna introduces a clear, three-step process for better understanding yourself, your relationships, and the way you move in the world.

Filled with real-life stories, exercises, and reflection questions designed for journaling, therapy sessions, or small group exploration, Move Toward isn’t just a book – it’s a deeply therapeutic experience that invites all parts of yourself to the table, even the ones you don’t like.

(Turns out, they’ve been on your side all along.)

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Dr. Richard Schwartz

Creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

“As the creator of IFS, I have been working to find more simplified ways to bring it to the public. Therefore, I’m so grateful to Jenna for developing this elegant three-step approach that makes IFS practice accessible. Not only does she invite readers to connect with their parts but, in that engagement, helps us engage skillfully with conflict, unsafe systems, and the dangerous dynamics present in today’s global landscape. I see Move Toward as an important piece in the mission of expanding the reach of IFS.”

Nancy L. Morgan, PhD

IFS Trainer, IFS Certified Therapist and Clinical Consultant

“Jenna Riemersma possesses a rare gift: she makes the transformative wisdom of IFS feel both accessible and sacred. A natural bridge-builder, she moves between worlds with grace, and in Move Toward, she invites us to follow. This book opens fresh pathways to the innate potential within each of us, offering a wise and steady companion on the journey home to Self. I will be recommending it widely.”

Susan McConnell

IFS senior trainer, founder of Somatic IFS, and author of Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy Book & Workbook

“In Move Toward, Jenna tenderly and expertly invites us to move away from judging and ignoring our parts stuck in painful roles and to move toward them to restore their naturally positive states. With guidance both simple and deep, playful and profound, this book leads us home to the loving, wise, powerful Selves we truly are.”

Cece Sykes

LCSW, Senior IFS trainer and Coauthor of Internal Family Systems Therapy for Addictions

“Move Toward is a relatable, accessible, and warm-hearted clinical handbook IFS therapists will reach for again and again. Filled with handy strategies for identifying, mapping, and connecting to hard-to-love parts, this practical guide is especially well-suited for embracing the systemic approach clinicians need to effectively treat intense protector practices.”

Tammy Sollenberger

LCMHC, Certified IFS therapist, podcaster and author of The One Inside: Thirty Days to Your Authentic Self

“Jenna’s Notice, Know, Need shorthand is one of the most accessible, practical, and clinically useful ways I’ve found to practice IFS. I use it daily with clients and in my own inner work. Move Toward offers a grounded, trauma-informed path to Self-leadership and genuine connection with parts through simple, thoughtful journaling prompts and exercises. The book reflects Jenna’s deep love for IFS and her unwavering care for the humans doing this brave inner work.”

Nancy Sowell

LICSW, IFS Senior Lead Trainer, Harvard Medical School Teaching Associate, IFS research contributor, and author of Internal Family Systems Health Therapy™: Treating Trauma Related Illness and Toxic Stress

“A beautiful book describing Jenna Riemersma’s user-friendly tool for the profound IFS experience of internal relational connection. This book walks the reader through the process with clarity and simplicity.”

Sarah Bergenfield

Certified Level 3 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, Neurodevelopmental Integration Specialist, Co-author of Wired to Feel

“Jenna Riemersma distills complex inner dynamics into a practical tool that can be used in the very moments when parts are most activated. As she beautifully illustrates, when we stop waging war on ourselves and instead move toward our inner experience, our system naturally reorganizes around Self-leadership. This book will be invaluable for clinicians, clients, and anyone seeking a more compassionate and effective way of understanding themselves. Jenna has created not just a framework, but a pathway that helps readers reconnect with their innate capacity for clarity, calm, and connection.”

Daphne Fatter, Ph.D

Integrative trauma consultant and Licensed Psychologist; Author of Integrating Internal Family Systems Interventions into EMDR Therapy

“Jenna Riemersma has done it again! With ‘Move Toward,’ she’s given us a tool that’s both profound and practical—a way to remember the heart of IFS in just three words. This book will be invaluable for anyone learning the model, and I predict it will become essential reading for therapists who want to help their clients connect with their parts quickly and compassionately. Given its practicality – it can be used in so many clinical settings and in one’s personal work as a tool for a life. Jenna’s warmth and wisdom shine through every page.”

Welcome

I’m so glad you’re here.

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.

A Simplified IFS Therapy Tool to Welcome all Parts of You

What if the things you don’t like about yourself aren’t character flaws - but parts of you doing their best to protect you?