IFS Integration: A Comprehensive Guide to Applying Internal Family Systems Across Modalities, Populations, and Clinical Presentations

In this skillfully curated collection, IFS clinician, author, and editor Jenna Riemersma brings together 30 leading IFS practitioners to share their expertise in applying the transformative principles of the IFS model across diverse clients, communities, and therapeutic approaches.

Written for clinicians and laypersons at all IFS skill levels, each chapter is a standalone guide for integrating IFS with a specific topic. With practical insights, actionable strategies, and appendices for additional application and learning, chapters include IFS integration with:

Addiction • Adoption • Ancestral healing • Asian & Pacific Islander clients • Black, Indigenous, & people of color • Couples • Disordered eating • EMDR • Enneagram • Gender identity • Groups • Latinx clients • Neurodivergence • Parenting • Play therapy • Polyvagal theory • Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy • Psychodrama • Sandtray • Sexual orientation • Sexuality • Somatic practices

IFS Integration features a powerhouse group of expert contributors hoping to expand access to IFS and celebrate diverse and inclusive expressions of Self-leadership in the world.

Led by Dr. Richard Schwartz, the founder of the IFS model, authors include: Dr. Frank Anderson, Dr. Mona Barbera, Chris Burris, Dr. Sand Chang, Candice Christiansen, Marcella Cox, Dr. Daphne Fatter, Fatimah Finney, Carmen Jimenez-Pride, Mary Kruger, Kathy Mackechney, Meg Martinez-Dettamanti, Susan McConnell, Dr. Suzan McVicker, Dr. Nancy Morgan, Gregg Paisley, Halie Parmalee, Pete Patton, Leslie Petruk, Patricia Rich, Dr. Alexia Rothman, Joan Ryan, Gaby Satarino, Valerie Simon, Tammy Sollenberger, Julia Sullivan, Cece Sykes, and Regina Wei.

(Previously published as Altogether Us)

Jenna Riemersma, LPC, (she/her) is an IFS certified therapist and IFSI approved clinical consultant, the best-selling author of Altogether You, and the developer of the Move Toward shorthand tool for the IFS model. A seasoned clinical director and dynamic speaker, Jenna speaks to audiences across the globe, offering compelling and innovative solutions to the most challenging mental health issues of our day.