My IFS Integral Therapy

In this episode I describe the IFS protocol of retrieving a part into the present. I have added in an understanding of how this is reparenting a younger part.

The first 5 therapeutic practices help you become aware of what's going on inside your psyche. This sixth therapeutic practice is the core of the healing process as it is used in the internal family systems therapy model.

This therapeutic practice is about keeping in mind "My Telos", that is my
future goals or purpose of my life.

Knowing and maintaining personal Boundaries is a therapeutic pra


Knowing and maintaining personal Boundaries is a therapeutic practice that allows you to interact with the world from an authentic Self-led place.

Providing a new experience to young wounded parts that are stuck in the past through imaginal experiences.

We need transitional objects to mediate between our feelings and the outside world.

Shuttling (originally a gestalt therapy practice): The 2nd of 9 therapeutic practices in this podcast. Shuttling is a way to become grounded, but with an IFS twist. The practice itself includes an accessing of your present-self-energy. So this grounding is not a denying of feelings or thoughts, but rather an accessing of the Self which then notices something good in the surroundings and allows that to sit with some uncomfortable feeling and thought.

The Pause is the first of 9 therapeutic practices I present in this series. These are practices I personally use and facilitate for my clients. - Alexandra McGee, AMFT. Walnut Creek, California

Brief description of my IFS integral therapy podcast, hosted by Alexandra McGee, an IFS trained marriage and family therapist practicing in California.