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IFS Talks

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Latest episodes

  • The Process of Facilitating Access to Self, with Cece Sykes

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    In this episode, we sit with Cece Sykes, LCSW, a leadi trainer at the IFS Institute with over forty years of clinical experience in trauma and addiction recovery,  to explore one of the most distinctive and challenging aspects of the IFS…

  • IFS Health Therapy with Dick Schwartz, Nancy Sowell, and Martha Sweezy

    September 6, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    In this episode of IFS Talks, Nancy Sowell, Martha Sweezy, and IFS founder Richard Schwartz join us to explore their new book, IFS Health Therapy: Treating Trauma-Related Physical Illness & Toxic Stress.   Together, we discuss the…

  • IFS Meets Psychedelic Medicine, with Dick Schwartz and Co-Authors

    July 31, 2026 · 60 min

    In this special episode of IFS Talks, we welcome Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy, David Lovas, and Sunny Strasburg, authors of Psychedelic Medicine and Internal Family Systems Therapy: A Clinical Skills Manual. Together, we explore why…

  • Uncertainty and Mental Health with Sarah Bergenfeld and Martha Sweezy

    May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    We are excited to celebrate the launch of IFS Collected Wisdom: Conversations with Experienced Voices in Internal Family Systems a book that brings together voices, reflections, and lived experience from across the IFS community. This book…

  • Honoring and Accompanying Grief, with Einat Bronstein

    April 27, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

    In this episode, we explore the nature of grief through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) with senior trainer Einat Bronstein. Drawing on the work of Francis Weller and other key grief theorists, we reflect on grief not as a…

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  • Bringing IFS to Children, Parenting, and Schools - with Lisa Spiegel and Claire Stubbs

    February 28, 2026 · 39 min

    Today on IFS Talks, we’re excited to welcome Lisa Spiegel and Claire Stubbs. Lisa is the founder of Soho Parenting in New York City. She’s an author and a certified IFS therapist and consultant who has worked with children and families for…

  • Exploring Countertransference Through the Fire Drill Technique — with Joanne Twombly

    February 1, 2026 · 39 min

    In today’s episode,  we speak with Joanne Twombly about a powerful IFS technique commonly known as "The Fire Drill, based on Joanne's chapter called The Fire Drill: Sorting Through Countertransference with IFS."And we also announce the…

  • Honoring and welcoming Self-Like Parts, with Paul Neustadt

    November 1, 2025 · 57 min

    Our guest is Paul Neustadt,  a clinical social worker and IFS Senior Co-lead Trainer. Paul has worked in community mental health and the counseling program of a working-class state university as well as having been the director of a…

  • Brain, Mind, and Parts through a Neuroscience Lens

    July 27, 2025 · 25 min

    Today we welcome Catia Vinnik.  Catia Vinnik is a neuroscientist and science communicator who has dedicated over 20 years to understanding the brain—from sensory processing and memory to molecular mechanisms underlying complex…

  • The Q&A Session with Martha Sweezy

    May 22, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

    This episode is a recording of an open Q&A session with Martha Sweezy.  Trigger warning:All questions were submitted by participants and focused primarily on Martha’s area of expertise: shame and guilt. Please note that Martha Sweezy makes…

  • The Nature and Healing of Exiles, with Cece Sykes

    April 10, 2025 · 1 hr 21 min

    Today we are welcoming back Cece Sykes. Cece is a senior trainer at the Internal Family Systems Institute with over thirty-five years of clinical experience specializing in recovery from trauma and addiction. Her chapter on addictive…

  • Climate Crisis from Inside Out with Natalie Thomas and Paul Neustadt

    February 22, 2025 · 59 min

    Paul Neustadt is an IFS Senior Co-Lead Trainer. He has taught workshops on The Gifts of our Exiles, The Power of Presence in IFS; Self Led Parenting; and a number of other topics. He teaches a monthly seminar for level 1 graduates focused…

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About the show

IFS Talks is an audio series to deepen connections with the Internal Family Systems Model through conversations with lead trainers, authors, practitioners and users. In these audio interviews, we will have the opportunity to draw out aspects of IFS Lead Trainers and skilled presenters to create a user-friendly format for listeners to get to know each trainer or practitioner, their background, in and before IFS. With candid, self-led dialogue, trainers and practitioners can share their specific interests with listeners interested in deepening their inner knowledge and IFS practice. Cece Sykes, Susan McConnell, Mary Kruger, Pam Krause, Lisa Spiegel, Martha Sweezy, Art Mones, Ann Sinko, Paul Neustadt, Frank Anderson, Larry Rosenberg, Toni Herbine-Blank, and many more among the interviewees. Among the topics in theTalks: - All Erotic Parts are Welcome, with Larry Rosenberg - IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience, with Frank Anderson - From Reactive to Self Led Parenting, with Paul Neustadt - IFS as a Metamodel of Therapy, with Art Mones - The Role of Legacy Burdens on Anxiety, Depression and Shame, with Ann Sinko - Shame and Guilt as central for IFS work, with Martha Sweezy - Bringing IFS to Children and Parents, with Lisa Spiegel - IFS with Children and Adolescents, with Pam Krause - IFS on Addictions and Eating Disorders, with Mary Kruger - Embodying the Internal Family, with Susan McConnell - Bringing IFS to Extreme Parts, with Cece Sykes