
An Illustrated IFS Psychoeducational Tool for Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Neglect
With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach your adult and adolescent clients how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems (IFS) works to heal them. This powerful therapeutic tool translates complex ideas about trauma and parts work into material that is accessible and easy to understand.
Practical guidance and illustrations for clarifying and discussing:
Dissociation
Parts mapping
Complex PTSD
Coping strategies
Window of tolerance
Somatic experiencing
Colleen West is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, an Internal Family Systems Approved Consultant, and an EMDR International Consultant, and she has extensive teaching, training, and clinical experience resolving simple and complex trauma. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and divides her time between seeing clients, mentoring clinicians, and writing. She loves the outdoors, writing poetry, and sharing vegetarian feasts with friends and family. More at colleenwest.com and smarttherapytools.com.