A long time ago, I did a psychology degree and worked for many years in paid and volunteer counseling roles, but I was not convinced the therapy models available to me were effective enough for my work with clients or for healing my own trauma – so I quit and did other things. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to come across a therapist who had trained in IFS and discover how amazing IFS was as a client experiencing it for the first time. I decided to retrain and return to working as a therapist.

As a survivor of complex trauma I really understand how scary it can be to come to therapy. I especially get how difficult shame can be, but I know we can heal it.

My clients have described my style as gentle, warm, calm and clear with a sense of humour.

IFS ongoing learning and personal development

Here are some things I do to keep growing my IFS experience and skills:

• I am an IFS client and I attend my own individual and group IFS therapy. I have more than 150 hours of experience as an IFS client.
• I attend regular individual, group and peer consultation. My consultants include people with more than 25 years of experience with IFS.
• I help deliver IFS training as a program assistant providing practice feedback to therapists learning IFS.
• I participate in a fortnightly peer meet with other therapists to share and explore our own parts in a group.  
• I am part of an ongoing IFS therapist study group sharing IFS learning and practicing the model together with peer feedback.
• I run an IFS book group where IFS-trained therapists come together to discuss published IFS resources.
• I participate in online forums learning from, and contributing to, the global IFS community.

IFS trainings

• 2024
• Direct Access – An Essential Skill – May
• 2023
• Ketamine and Mental Health – July
• Deepening Skills in the IFS Model – Apr-Jun – current
• Intimacy from the Inside Out – Level 2 IFS training in couples work – Jan-Mar
• 2022
• Self energy and self-like parts: A relationship, not a polarization – Oct-Nov
• IFS Institute Annual Conference 2022, Expanding our Perspectives: Revitalizing Inner Resources – Sept
• Compassion for Addictive Process: An IFS Lens – Aug-Sept
• 2-Day Intensive Workshop: Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems – Jun
• IFS Perspectives on Families Affected by Autism – May-Aug
• Anxiety, Depression and Shame: Understanding the Connections, Healing the Burdens – Mar
• IFS Skills Immersion – Feb-Jul
• IFS as a Spiritual Path – Feb
• The Art of Negotiation in IFS Sessions: Challenging Protectors and Workable Agreements – Jan-Apr
• 2021
• IFS and Attachment Trauma – Nov
• Daily Parts Meditation Practice: Peer Group Workshop – Nov
• Intro to IFS – Nov
• IFS Conference 2021: Restoring Wholeness Through Collective Transformation – Oct
• IFS Legacy and Cultural Burdens: Essential information – Sep
• IFS and Health issues: Changing the Course of Health Ailments and Disease – Sep
• Bringing IFS Informed Practice to Groups – Aug-Dec
• Compassionate Approaches to Working with Psychosis – Aug-Sep
• 3 Lenses of Self Led Sexuality – Aug-Sep
• 2020
• The Farther Reaches of IFS: Unattached Burdens and Guides – Jun
• IFS Level 1 – Feb-Jun
• Parenting with the IFS model – May
• IFS Online Circle – Mar

Other training and qualifications

• Specialist Course in Couple Therapy, Level 2 – 2004
• Evidence Based Practice – Aug 2003
• Specialist Course in Couple Therapy, Level 1 – 2002
• Acquired Brain Injury and Sexuality – 2002
• Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) – 2001