Kim Paulus, LMFT (pronouns: she/her/hers) is a Certified IFS Therapist and Consultant in private practice in Oakland, California. She is a queer and mixed-race Vietnamese American cisgender woman, and specializes in treating trauma with queer, transgender, and gender nonconforming people of color, as well as others who experience marginalization and disenfranchisement.

Philip Butler, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligent Systems at Iliff School of Theology. He is an interdisciplinary scholar in neuroscience, technology, spirituality, and Blackness. He is the author of Black Transhuman Liberation Theology, and the editor of the recently released volume Critical Black Futures. Philip is also the founder of the Seekr Project, a distinctly Black AI with mental health capabilities.

Annie Weiss, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and Level 3 Certified IFS therapist with a private practice in Newton, MA. Annie integrates Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems and Interpersonal Neurobiology, and has leads local, national and international group trainings. She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, with degrees from Yale University and Smith College Annie has taught group dynamics to Harvard Medical students, and at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, and Boston College.

Mike Elkin, LMFT is an IFS Senior Trainer with over 50 years of clinical experience. He pioneered applying systemic, hypnotic, and strategic thinking to addictive issues. He has been teaching IFS since 1997, and has presented extensively throughout the US and Europe. He once broke his ankle playing basketball with Dick Schwartz.

Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, is a Certified IFS Therapist. She's the President of Caballero Counseling & Consulting Services where she is specializing in the treatment of trauma survivors, asylum seekers and migration trauma. She facilitates trauma-informed workshops and retreats to community-based organizations and capacity building in the area of diversity, trauma-informed service delivery, maternal infant health, community violence intervention and vicarious traumatization. She’s excited to integrate IFS to immigrant populations and Latin America. She serves as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and founder of the Venezuelan Alliance for Community Support, Inc.

As a licensed Psychotherapist, I believe every client deserves peace and freedom to be their authentic self. That means therapy with me is centered around how to create the best version of you based on your goals, needs, values, and preferences. My favorite kind of work is deeply person-centered. We can build a relationship of trust and a space for exploring the authentic you. Being a veteran that’s been through modern combat in different countries, It takes a lot to get me out of my element. It would be hard to surprise me.
I have 10 years of experience working in the psychiatric field. I am extremely motivated to help each and every client to the best of my ability. I want to walk with you through life’s challenges and help you harness your strengths to create the best strategies for you, that will aid in your growth. No matter what walk of life you come from, I’ll travel with you.

Karl Steyaert MS, MA, is a visionary cultural catalyst with over 25 years experience facilitating personal and collective transformation across North America, Europe and Asia. His clients range from non-profits, intentional communities and ecovillages, to universities, governments and Silicon Valley tech companies. Having designed and directed programs in Integral Sustainability for the University of Massachusetts at Findhorn Ecovillage (Scotland) and Auroville (India), as well as supporting the development of dozens of ecovillage and community projects worldwide, Karl has a passion for co-creating hubs for the evolution of consciousness and life-enriching culture. He is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication, and a Level 1-3 trained practitioner of Internal Family Systems, as well as having extensive training and experience facilitating collective trauma healing, restorative justice, aikido, and meditation. In 2013 Karl founded the Cultural Catalyst Network www.culturalcatalystnetwork.org – a global community of changemakers integrating inner, interpersonal, and systemic transformation. More on Karl at www.karlsteyaert.com.

Chady Rahmé, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Notre Dame University – Lebanon. He is a psychotherapist, leading the Ithraa-Lebanon branch. Ithraa is a center in Jordan and Lebanon, for coaching, therapy, and training on relational enrichment for professionals, executive managers, as well as people seeking individual growth. Chady also participated in many programs on conflict transformation in areas of deep societal tensions and violent clashes, like Syria and Western Sahara. He was a member of a group from Hamline University, where they developed a curriculum for active citizenship and peace education for the Middle East, and he translated it into Arabic. Chady is using IFS to help traumatized people, Lebanese and refugees, cope with the volatile situation in Lebanon. He is also helping groups from different NGOs through programs of self-care for caregivers.

Ty is a Level 2 trained IFS personal development coach and a contributing author to the best selling book, Freeing Self: IFS Beyond the Therapy Room. In 2018, Ty experienced his first IFS session with the model’s founder Dr. Richard Schwartz and was deeply moved by the process. In 2021, during his second session with Dr Schwartz, he retrieved a 15-year-old part he had lost over 20 years ago due to his mom passing away. Ty is one of the leading coaches in the IFS community, applying IFS to his image coaching, K-12 school workshops, and relationship coaching practice.

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Iryna Natalushko, MA art therapist is an IFS certified art therapist, trauma specialist, and a two times Ukrainian Fulbright fellow to the US. She is practicing, teaching and consulting internationally from the Netherlands at the moment. In being with individuals and groups of clients and colleagues, Iryna is deepening into the areas of creating a fuller life after trauma and burdening legacy, living and thriving across cultures, and using art-making in IFS practice and consultation.

I am a Harvard Medical School trained and educated, board certified adult psychiatrist and Internal Family Systems (level 3 trained) psychotherapist, as well as a meditator, martial artist, non-dual practitioner, neo-tantra practitioner and sex and relationship coach.

My passion is to help clients to experientially know, understand and respect who they are beneath their limiting judgements, so that they may live from a space of self-respect, and transform their minds, bodies and relationships from that place of self-respect and understanding. I use medicine, therapies, coaching tools all for the purpose of deepening one's access to that self-understanding and healing capacity.

I currently practice remotely and am licensed to practice psychotherapy, prescribe and provide clinical supervision in Massachusetts and Tennessee. I provide IFS coaching, implicit bias coaching and organizational consulting services worldwide.

I am Polyamory-friendly and highly knowledgeable, LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer) friendly, kink friendly and psychedelic/plant medicine friendly. I practice from an open-hearted lens that acknowledges how unconscious fear-based cultural patterns have caused harm to all parts of society at all levels of privilege.

Caroline, has a master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Brussels ( ULB)
She relocated from Belgium , her motherland, to Rwanda her fatherland, 3 years ago.

She has a classic background in Humanist Psychologie with a specialisation in Trauma interventions.
She did her level 1 and 2 of IFS in 2013 and also uses a wide range of other clinical techniques (EMDR, Energy Psychology, Mindfulness, ...) and also includse body work in her sessions ( TRE, Yin Yoga, ...)

She works at Solid Minds since 3 years, a private, independant, outpatient mental health clinic, licensed by the Ministery of Health. They provide evidence based psychological services to individuals, couples, families and children. The also have employee assistant programs with local and international organisations, businesses and educational institutions.

Victor is a collaborative and strategic leader who is making an impact on historical inequalities in his community and across the United States. Victor serves as the Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Fluence International Inc., a company that provides evidence-based training in psychedelic therapy and integration services to clinicians across the globe. Before joining Fluence, Victor served as Deputy Director for the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Advocacy and Reform where he co-led the implementation of the Trauma-Informed PA Plan, helped establish the first Racial Day of Healing in Pennsylvania history, and developed free trauma trainings for Pennsylvanians in collaboration with internationally recognized experts. He has expertise in policy and advocacy, BIPOC mental health, racial and communal trauma, and psychedelic medicine. He is a Licensed Social Worker and practicing psychotherapist in Pennsylvania with training in Internal Family Systems, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic harm reduction and integration. Victor is also listed on Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s list of "40 Under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in the United States" for his work in psychedelic policy.

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I am a doctoral student in the Somatic Psychology Ph.D Program at CIIS, studying predictability and its impact on our mental health. I am a Certified Level 3 Internal Family Systems Practitioner. I am autistic and specialize in working with autistic clients and their families to help them understand autism as a difference in perception. I love using IFS to support my autistic clients by helping create predictability, which in turn helps them to regulate.

Dane Ray is a resident of Washington, D.C. and a graduate of the University of the District of Columbia with the Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. Dane is a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor serving the state of Maryland. Dane has over 20 years of experience as an educator and trainer within and on behalf of the LGBTQIA+ communities, with additional experience in prevention education and research related to HAHSTA (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration) through tenure at DC Health (DC Government). Dane believes that in order to achieve equity in care (healing/ growth), it is critical that both healthcare and community providers be informed of and prepared to meet the needs of transgender and gender expansive people. In working towards this goal, Dane’s current research interests center on public health communication in response to gaps in the healthcare system for self-identified trans and gender expansive people. As a result of ongoing discrepancies and disenfranchisement around access to: care, knowledge, and resources; Dane opened up the firm D & A Consulting Services to help more directly address these systemic issues by designing services that are curated for those most marginalized. Dane is considered a healer and music lover! Follow more at #mentalDNA !

Dr. HeaKyung Kwon is an experienced psychotherapist with more than 25 years of experience. She has been trained in many different trauma treatment modalities such as IFS, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and AEDP. Among all these approaches, IFS has become the foundation of her work. She received her doctorate degree in Music Therapy from New York University and her Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. She was born and raised in Korea and moved to the US when she was in her 30s. She currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters. She is also a Korea IFS training organizer and is dedicated to planting the roots of IFS in Korea.

Hi! I’m Dr. Sand Chang, but I mostly go by Sand. My pronouns are they/them/their.

I am a Chinese American nonbinary Licensed Psychologist, DEI consultant, and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience providing training and mental health services in a variety of settings, including corporate settings, startups, community mental health centers, university counseling centers, public schools, and medical centers. As a DEI trainer/educator and consultant, I strive to bring an intersectional, trauma-informed perspective to help workplaces create inclusive and psychologically safe environments. As a clinician, I provide both brief and long-term therapy to adults.

Early in my career, I recognized the need to broaden the scope and reimagine DEI practices so as to create possibilities for authentic connection and collective care. I have been providing DEI consultation and training to leaders and organizations for over 15 years. I utilize a trauma-informed approach by meeting people where they are, amplifying their strengths rather than deficits, and facilitating a healthy exploration of the challenges that must be overcome in order to grow. To witness people take risks and grow in ways that they could not have imagined is truly a gift that motivates me to keep working toward systemic change. My deepest desire is to be of service in supporting more equitable and collaborative systems and communities. It’s not always comfortable or pretty, but it’s worth it.

My work as a psychotherapist is informed both by my professional training and my own lived experience, and it has evolved as I’ve done my own healing work. I’ve always been actively interested in helping people who tend to get excluded by mainstream, white, western, dominant culture norms. Naturally, I’ve gravitated towards perspectives and approaches that are empowering and strengths-based rather than pathologizing (like our mainstream psychiatric models and categorizations). As a somatic psychotherapist and trauma specialist, I am deeply committed to body liberation for all people and actively engage in ways to challenge and deconstruct colonialist practices within health and healing realms. My work with individuals is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Somatic Experiencing (SE). I’m a Certified IFS Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Certified Body TrustⓇ Provider.

When I’m not working with individuals or organizations, you can find me speaking or writing. I co-authored A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Affirming Care (New Harbinger, 2018) and the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients (2015). I’m honored to have been interviewed by NPR Life Kit, The New York Times, and Food Psych.

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has published five books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.

Chris Burris, M.Ed, LMFT, LCMHCS
Much of Chris’s career has been devoted to providing training and supervision for psychotherapists who specialize in treating trauma. He has trained thousands of therapists in the IFS model both in the United States and around the world. Chris has a passion for making the IFS model more culturally sensitive, relevant, and accessible for people of the global majority.
He has a reputation for being an open-hearted, caring, and innovative trainer. With the growing demand for trained IFS therapists, Chris’s practice has transitioned from individual psychotherapy, individual supervision, and individual consultation to offering only IFS group training and group consultation for IFS trained therapists.

Margaret is a LCSW in the Metro Atlanta area who specializes in treatment for trauma-related issues. I have been trained in the following modalities: EMDR; IFS (Level 1 and 2, Certified); Brainspotting (Certified, Phase 1-3) and SE (Beginner 1 and 2). My primary focus is faith-based trauma in which we assist individuals and groups in faith communities with trauma and resilence.

Julia Sullivan is a social activist who integrates her Latina roots, indigenous spirituality, and all she gained from being one of the first Latinas to earn an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. After a 30-year career in executive leadership and organizational development, she now devotes her energy to bringing Self leadership to people using Internal Family Systems (IFS). She founded the Indigenous IFS Council to bring an IFS peer-based community model to tribal lands. Currently several pilots are underway as a follow-up to their participation in the Stanford d.school Action Lab 2022. Julia taught in the Transition to General Management executive program offered by Columbia University, where she analyzed business cases participants wrote depicting the complex issues confronting their companies. She applied frameworks developed by Action Design and Chris Argyris of Harvard who was also her mentor. She is a Board Member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association leading unprecedented activities that engage all alumni on issues and solutions related to race, inclusion, and equity. Julia relaxes with frequent walks around a lake with her IFS-trained husband, Chris. They speak for their Parts and their Selves while basking in the beauty of nature. They often celebrate their twenty plus years of marriage and the fact that their seven grown adult children from their blended family are all thriving.

In 2003, the Stanford Graduate School of Business awarded Julia the Jerry I. Porras Latino Leadership award to recognize her professional achievements and her contributions to the community. Julia earned a Bachelor in Industrial Administration from Kettering University and was one of the first Latinas to earn an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is the former Co-President of the Hispanic Alumni Chapter, and current Board Member of the Stanford GSB Alumni Association leading unprecedented activities that engage all alumni on issues and solutions related to race, inclusion, and equity.

Mary Petro is the Co-Founder and Coaching Director at Ithraa Center Jordan, and brings
diverse experiences with 23 years in team building, 15 years in business leadership, a
certification as a professional coach involving over 10,000 hours of hands-on training and one-
on-one coaching. Mary has served clients in both the U.S. and the Middle East. Mary has
trained (TOT) and certified over 75 coaches in Jordan and Lebanon, where she helped establish
a second branch of Ithraa Training Center. She has worked with a wide variety of audiences
ranging from illiterate refugees to university professors and researchers to students and
teachers, as well as corporate, government, and NGO employees and board members.

Marianne Turley, MC, LMFT (she/her/hers) is a Certified IFS Therapist and Consultant in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. For over 15 years, Marianne has dedicated herself to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation with children, adolescents, and adults. She has completed extensive training in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Sand Tray Therapy. She regularly integrates IFS with these modalities and is currently developing protocols specific to EMDR.

Teaching and sharing knowledge are passions of Marianne's. She serves as both an EMDR Approved Consultant and an Approved IFS Clinical Consultant, helping clinicians obtain certification. At the onset of the pandemic, Marianne developed and presented free online trainings to help EMDR therapists transition to virtual therapy. She often utilizes art, sand tray, and collage in her work and enjoys leading classes in how to use collage to create visual representations of IFS parts.

Kim Schneiderman, MSW, LCSW, is a Level II IFS psychotherapist (awaiting review for certification) with the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute (PSI) in Manhattan. She is also the author of Step Out of Your Story: Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life (New World Library, 2015) and blogs about IFS and other topics for Psychology Today. She has taught self-discovery writing workshops at the New York Open Center, the 92nd Street Y, the JCC of Manhattan, Vassar College, Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas, among other venues, and has lectured on the spirituality of crisis and conflict at NYU’s Post-Graduate certificate program in Social Work and Spiritual Care and PSI’s Summer Certificate Program in Spiritually Informed Psychotherapies. Her self-paced online DailyOm course, Reframing Your Narrative About Challenging Relationships, offers perspective-bending writing exercises including IFS-inspired dialogues with triggered parts.

This year, Kim launched the IFS Writing Lab, a new and evolving online workshop designed to create a safe interactive space to experiment with various writing techniques that access self energy. Topics have included "Exploring the Inner Addict," "Dialoguing with Relationship Triggers," and "Big Feelings No One Understands (and the parts that protect them)." Kim was a guest on "The One Inside" podcast with Tammy Sollenberger. You can read more about Kim on her website stepoutofyourstory.com

Hannah Lofthus is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Schools in Kansas City, Missouri. Before entering EMKS, under a third of the founding class passed their 4th grade state exams. Four years later, the same students outperformed 93% of the state in English Language Arts, 96% of the state in Science, and 99% of the state in Mathematics. A five year study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research shows that students that attend the Kauffman School for three years achieve an average of 4.61 years learning in math and 4.64 years learning in reading. This impact, measured in additional years learning, is nearly double the impact of charter schools in Boston and New York City and 2.5 times greater than KIPP middle schools nationwide. Notably, the Kauffman School achieved these results in its first four years of operation.

Before joining the Kauffman School, Ms. Lofthus worked in the Uncommon Schools Network in New York City and is a 2007 Teach for America alumni. In 2015, Ms. Lofthus was inducted into the Mid-America Education Hall of Fame. In 2016, the Kauffman School was named Missouri Charter School of the Year and Ms. Lofthus received the Ryan Award which is awarded to high-impact leaders who accelerate student achievement.

Liz Martins is an IFS Institute Lead Trainer, Certified IFS Therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant based in the UK and working in private practice. Liz has worked to support healing, growth and development for over 30 years, including as a therapist, supervisor, social worker, organisational and group facilitator, mentor and trainer. She has a particular interest in IFS supervision and consultation and authored a chapter in Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation. (Redfern, 2023).

Melissa Mose, LMFT has 30 years of experience working with individuals and families, and she has specialized in OCD and anxiety treatment for over a decade. She is an approved IFS consultant and an IFS certified therapist who is also a graduate of the IOCDF’s Training Institute through advanced levels. Currently, in addition to her private practice, Melissa is serving as the president of OCD Southern California, an affiliate of the IOCDF, where it is her mission to extend resources, education, and support to families and individuals in need. She trains Associate MFT’s in her IFS informed group practice to treat anxiety with a multi-modal approach. Melissa currently has a book on using IFS for OCD coming out in the winter of 2024 and one the following year for individuals with OCD.

I am a therapist with thirty years of experience. Over these years I have worked in a variety of settings and with numerous types of individuals. I have significant experience working in acute care settings, Inpatient Hospitals, Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP), as well as Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and private practice. In these settings I have engaged in a variety of therapeutic modalities; group therapy, individual therapy, couples and family therapy and assessment. Additionally, I have had the opportunity to provide supervision with graduate students during their field placement (2009-2015), with new clinicians (2015-present), and this past year have begun facilitating a monthly IFS supervision group. Whether as a supervisor, lecturer or as a Program Assistant for the Level 1 and Level 2 IFS trainings, I have had several different opportunities to engage in the role of practicing, teaching, and sharing aspects of the IFS model that I feel passionate about.

Naomi Nygaard, MA, is an Internal Family Systems Therapist specialising in helping groups of people both face-to-face and online to release burdens relating to food, weight and body image, as well as compulsive addictive cycles of any kind. Naomi supports and guides groups and individuals to reconnect with their capacity to experience Self-care, to know Self-worth and to open to joy-filled lives through wholesome eating habits and body acceptance. Her passion is to offer IFS and body-based perspectives to those seeking recovery from eating disorders and addictions world-wide.

Victoria is an integrative psychotherapist and IFS/IFIO therapist working with individuals and couples in London. She has an advanced accreditation as a Gender, Sexuality and Relationship diversities therapist.
She specialises in sex and sexuality and works with many clients who identify as LGBTQ+.

Before moving into private practice, Victoria managed a specialist counselling service in a central London sexual health clinic which supported clients with a range of issues, such as compulsive sexual behaviour, sexualised drug use, psychosexual difficulties and managing internalised stigma and shame.

Before training as a therapist, Victoria worked in public health, writing educational programmes, developing strategies and training staff to improve the sexual wellbeing of the population. She is passionate about supporting people to navigate challenges related to sexuality, heal from shame and enjoy and celebrate their sexual selves.

David A. Hoffman is the founding member of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, where he serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and Collaborative Law attorney. He also teaches three courses at Harvard Law School, where he is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law: Mediation; Diversity and Dispute Resolution; and Legal Profession: Collaborative Law. David was named Boston’s “Lawyer of the Year” for 2022 in the field of Arbitration by the book Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News & World Report, and also Boston’s “Lawyer of the Year” in previous years, including 2021 (Collaborative Family Law) and 2020 (Mediation). He has presented training on IFS for lawyers and mediators with Dick Schwartz as his co-presenter, and he is the author of two articles about the use of IFS in law and mediation practice:
https://blc.law/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Transformation-as-a-Lawyer-article-about-IFS-model.pdf
https://blc.law/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mediation-Multiple-Minds-and-Managing-the-Negotiation-Within-Final-2011-07-05.pdf

Jenny Fiebig is a professional counselor licensed in both Montana and Colorado. Her private practice focuses on helping individuals and couples heal from trauma, and most specifically trauma related to outdoor accidents such as avalanche, alpine/rock climbing falls or river accidents. Her first career was in outdoor education and guiding. While working with people for long periods of time in a wilderness setting, she found the profound connection people had to themself, to others and the landscape they were traveling within. In 2010 she went back to school to pursue a graduate degree in Mental Heath Counseling at Montana State University. She was exposed to IFS while working for a group practice in Bozeman, MT and has deepened her knowledge in IFS ever since. Jenny has been through Level 1,2 and 3 with IFS, a Certified IFS Therapist, an Approved IFS Clinical Consultant for Certification, has been a PA numerous times in the US, Australia and Portugal and went through the ATP program with IFS Institute. Jenny has a deep passion for IFS and is excited to be in a teaching role with IFS Institute to bring this model to more healers throughout the world.

Stephen Chee, MD, MPH, MA, MTOM, LAc is dual trained and dual licensed as both an MD and as an acupuncturist. He is also quadruple Board Certified in Family Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Medical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and is a Level 2 Certified IFS Therapist. In addition to serving as a Program Assistant for an IFS level 1 training, he has a unique and broad background of training that also includes Spiritual Psychology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Mind Body Medicine, Energy Medicine, trained yoga teacher and is an authorized qi gung instructor.

Dr. Chee has been in practice as a physician since 2001 and has been exploring the intersection between mind, body and spirit for over 20 years. Serving as faculty for over 10 years at the University of Santa Monica’s Spiritual Psychology program focusing on Consciousness, Health and Healing, he discovered one of his greatest joys in life is supporting and witnessing others in their growth and healing.

Dr. Chee believes that true health and healing comes from an integration of the body, mind, and spirit. His Embodied Transpersonal IFS Approach to health and healing emphasizes the importance of cultivating a deep connection to the body and the larger systems and energies that influence well-being. By combining the latest research in integrative medicine with a holistic understanding of the body-mind connection, he helps people achieve optimal health and wellness.​

He offers group programs and does individual consultations as well.

Nicholas Brüss, Ed.D., LMFT is an integrative psychotherapist and clinical researcher who specializes in helping people heal and grow with psychedelics-assisted psychotherapies. He was trained by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and is a co-therapist and supervisor on the MAPS-sponsored FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in Los Angeles, CA since 2016. Nicholas has provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) since 2017 and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy since 2013. He is a leader in psychedelic-assisted IFS therapy, the co-founder and lead clinical trainer at the Psychedelic Coalition for Health, a clinical trainer for Therapsil (therapeutic psilocybin), and a volunteer with MAPS’s Zendo Project.

J. Ashley T. Booth, ACSW, MS has been working at the intersection of psychedelics and wellness since she started the Southern California Psychedelic Society, the Aware Project: Rethinking Psychedelics in 2015. In 2016, she was hired as the study coordinator on the MAPS-sponsored FDA clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD, soon becoming the only pre-licensed psychotherapist to be offered a position as a co-investigator on the trial. She was introduced to IFS through the MDMA therapy training and fell in love with the model. She has worked in Los Angeles and internationally offering IFS, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Hakomi, psychedelic integration and harm reduction. To professionals entering the burgeoning field of psychedelics, she offers consultation and training around psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and associated services. She has given numerous talks at conferences, workshops, and podcasts regarding the mindful reintroduction of psychedelics into Western Culture. AshleyBooth.net

Carmen Jimenez-Pride is an IFSI Co-Leader trainer. She is the founder and Executive Director of Outspoken Counseling and Consulting. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Certified EMDR Therapist, Internal Family Systems Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Registered Children Yoga Teacher, and a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. Carmen is also a LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator.

Carmen is the developer of Diversity in Play Therapy Inc.; and creator/organizer of the 2020 Diversity in Play Therapy Summit. 

Carmen received her Bachelor of Social Work with a certificate in Child Protective Services from Benedict College. She was then accepted into the advanced standing program at the University of South Carolina earning a Master of Social Work with a focus on communities and organizations. Carmen’s passion is youth/ children, and she has dedicated herself not only to enrich the lives of children but also to provide the tools and curriculum for clinicians to ensure her goal to reach others has an even farther span in society. 
 
Carmen is experienced in the clinical treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with culturally diverse backgrounds addressing a wide range of concerns. Carmen’s career in the mental health field spans more than 15 years.

Carmen has extensive training in sandtray, play therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Adlerian Play Therapy. 
 
Her experience as a therapist, consultant, trainer, educator, coach, and author encompasses Carmen’s approach to practice, which is “Together We Will Grow”

Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW; IFS Senior Trainer for L1, L2 and L3 trainings and leads retreats, workshops and webinars Internationally. Cece has over forty of clinical experience specializing in the effects of trauma and addiction. She co-authored IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More with Martha Sweezy and Dick Schwartz, released in 2023.

Ann-Katrin holds a PhD in Psychology and is a licensed Psychotherapist. She works as a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate at the Psychology Department of Hildesheim University in Northern Germany. Her research and teaching focuses on IFS, early education, emotionregulation and language. She sees international clients of all ages in private practice and is engaged in Psychotherapy trainings, supervision and voluntary projects like the Leyla Projekt or bringing IFS to child and youth psychotherapists in the Ukraine. She is IFS Level 3 and IFIO trained and a somatic IFS therapist.

Alicia is a Certified IFS Practitioner and Registered Art Therapist (ATR) working primarily with adults. She is launching a new career in Marriage and Family Therapy and Professional Clinical Counseling after fifteen years in fine art and communication design, and six years of support and advocacy in local school districts. Areas of focus include trauma, grief/loss, LGBTQ+ issues, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, cultural marginalization, and life transitions. Alicia has experience co-leading an IFS-informed process group, leading studio art groups for unhoused women, providing team trauma support for Nicaraguan refugees living in Costa Rica, and offering art therapy at a K-8 school community.

Emma Redfern has been practising as a psychotherapist for over 20 years and as a supervisor for over a dozen. She is a certified IFS therapist and approved IFS clinical consultant who specializes in supporting those who are transitioning to becoming IFS therapists and integrating IFS into their supervision practice. Emma is editor of Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation and author of Transitioning to Internal Family Systems Therapy: A Companion for Therapists and Practitioners, both published by Routledge. More recently, she co-edited with Helen Foot in New Zealand the multi-author book Freeing Self: IFS Beyond the Therapy Room which mainly features the work of practitioners using IFS in non-therapy spaces. At the IFS Conference in 2022, she co-presented online with Lead Trainer Liz Martins on Integrating IFS into Supervision and Consultation. She is also co-host of the podcast Purely IFS with Emma and Gayle.

Dr. Anderson began his journey by earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1985, followed by his M.D. degree from Rush University Medical School in 1989. He completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. After graduation, he stayed on as a clinical instructor at Harvard while working as a staff psychiatrist at the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute under the direction of Bessel van der Kolk.
In 1994, Dr. Anderson launched his private practice, centered on the treatment of trauma, including single-incident trauma, complex trauma, dissociative identity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Providing compassionate care, he also specializes in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Patients benefit from Dr. Anderson's psychopharmacology expertise as well as his training in sensory motor psychotherapy (SP) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
Dr. Anderson’s professional focus expanded in 2004 after he met his mentor and friend Richard Schwarz, Ph.D., founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a model that combines systems thinking and multiplicity of the mind. Dr. Anderson learned to integrate the IFS model into his passion for psychopharmacology, neurobiology and trauma therapy; He and Dr. Schwartz currently teach IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience, a five-day intensive training for therapists. In 2013, Dr. Anderson was named chairman of the Foundation for Self Leadership (FSL)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing IFS via research, scholarships and outreach.
Today, Dr. Anderson serves as FSL executive director and continues to provide consultation, individual therapy and couples therapy at his office in Concord, Mass. Additionally, he maintains an active career as a speaker, teacher, consultant, writer and researcher who travels the globe, often conducting seminars, workshops and training programs. He also remains affiliated with the Center for Self Leadership and Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute.

Pete Patton (LCSW) graduated with his Master of Social Work degree in 1996 from University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work. While attending there Pete became acquainted with the IFS Model by way of interning at the Institute for Juvenile Research, where he attended group supervision with Dick Schwartz and began applying and learning about his own interna-verse of Parts. Pete continued to get trained in IFS in the late 90’s and attended the initial Seattle Level 1 & 2 Trainings taught by Dick Schwartz and Michi Rose. The first 15 years of his career involved Pete providing sex offense specific treatment in the US and Aoteraro/New Zealand. His focus in the last 11 years has been on providing therapy to people suffering from a combination of trauma and chronic/persistent pain. Pete currently lives in Astoria, Oregon on the historical lands of the Clatsop and Chinook Tribes where he works for Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare and is Clinical Lead for the North Coast Pain Clinic. Pete regularly checks in with his Ancestors and his interna-verse of Parts.

Suzan McVicker, PhD, MA, LPC, enjoys working as a Certified IFS Therapist with a passion for sharing IFS in Indian Country. As a Cherokee descendant working with her own parts to unburden from the impacts of colonialism from both Native American and Euro American ancestries, her experience informs her clinical work with Native populations. Her knowledge base also builds on studies begun in a Native Health program co-taught by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Western Carolina University and continuing research with Fielding Graduate University Institute for Social Innovation. Her career began as an educator. She then invested a decade in at-home foundational parenting of four children. Currently she weaves education, family knowledge, culture-shifting identity issues, and over 25 years of IFS experience into an exploration of culturally informed work with the Indigenous IFS Council and other Native American circles. Her roles in the IFS community include trainer, consultant, educator, and therapist. She contributed to a visionary pilot study designing peer-to-peer ways to share IFS with a team of Indigenous IFS Council members participating in the Stanford University d.school Action Lab. Suzan loves to swim in outdoor waters, belly laugh with gatherings of relatives, slowly learn the Cherokee language, and listen to the stories of mountain streams from quiet places on their banks.

Samar is a special educator and is currently finishing the process of getting her license as a psychotherapist. She has worked for years as head of Special Education and therapy departments at different inclusive schools focusing on modifying and accommodating the mainstream curriculum and setting behavioral plans to help children and adolescents succeed in a school setting. She also works as an SEL consultant for QITABI 2 World Learning that aims to train school principals, coordinators, and teachers on integrating Social Emotional Learning into the curriculum. Along with her husband and a team from Lebanon, she has started a training and coaching center
(Ithraa Lebanon) and has given different pieces of training and workshops for staff, couples, parents, and youth based on relational needs. She was first trained in IFS by Tom Holmes in Jordan in 2019 and finished IFS Level 1 in 2022. She has worked with refugees on mental health and parenting skills and trauma healing using the attachment approach and IFS.

Deran Young is a licensed therapist specializing in racial trauma and legacy burdens. She is also a Co-Author of the New York Times Best Seller, You Are Your Best Thing, a retired military officer, & founder of Black Therapists Rock. Black Therapists Rock is a non profit organization with a network of over 30,000 mental health professionals committed to reducing the psychological impact of systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma. She obtained her social work degree from University of Texas, where she studied abroad in Ghana, West Africa for two semesters creating a high school counseling center for under-resourced students. Deran has visited over 37 different countries and her clinical experience spans across four different continents. Her passion for culture and people has led her to become a highly sought after diversity and inclusion consultant working with companies like BBERG, Facebook, Linked In, and YWCA. She resides in the Washington DC area with her 10 year old son.

Tamala Floyd is a psychotherapist, consultant, author, and speaker with over 20 years of experience. She received a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and an undergraduate degree in Psychology from California State University Long Beach. She taught at the University of Phoenix and the University of Southern California in Human Services and Social Work. Her work focuses on women’s trauma, mothering and relationship issues.

As a psychotherapist, her role is two-fold. She helps women identify and heal emotional wounds that impede their success in life and relationships. Secondly, she coaches and supports them in achieving fulfilling life goals. Tamala knows this subject intimately as she had to overcome her own wounding to live authentically and create healthy relationships.

Tamala has been married to her husband, Ernest for 20 years and they have five adult children between them. She enjoys traveling and learning about different cultures.