Parts Work: Trauma-Informed IFS

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!

Completely agree.
01/14/2026

Completely agree.

We need to talk…
01/11/2026

We need to talk…

The problem runs deeper than social awkwardness.

Boy can I relate. Motherhood changed me overnight.
01/11/2026

Boy can I relate. Motherhood changed me overnight.

Emotional labor. Damn I have a talent for it, but I’m tired—!
01/11/2026

Emotional labor. Damn I have a talent for it, but I’m tired—!

Sincerely, someone who's finally too tired to pretend

I love this presenter.
12/24/2025

I love this presenter.

Good advice!
12/16/2025

Good advice!

Sweet.
12/15/2025

Sweet.

SO true
12/15/2025

SO true

Ha! This is what I tell all my kids!
12/03/2025

Ha! This is what I tell all my kids!

What’s the most important thing you can do for boys?
12/03/2025

What’s the most important thing you can do for boys?

We need allies to end sexual violence.
12/03/2025

We need allies to end sexual violence.

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