We All Have Parts! - by Colleen West (Hardcover)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

A wonderful IFS resource for both client and practitioner. A practical, elegant, and straightforward way of helping us be with our parts. We All Have Parts is a true gem!

--Michelle Glass, CIFSP, author of Daily Parts Meditation Practice

Clearly and simply conveys many aspects of IFS work with trauma and will help many survivors know what to expect in their inner worlds and how to navigate them safely.

--Richard Schwartz, PhD, creator of Internal Family Systems

Colleen West has given us a gift. This little book paints a tender, evocative, and yet very clear picture of exactly how trauma impacts our beings. Equally vital, it provides an accessible, understandable, and wonderfully illustrated map for healing.

--Patricia L. Papernow, author of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

About the Author

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.