Parts Work: Trauma-Informed IFS

Parts Work: Trauma-Informed IFS Administered by Colleen West, Trauma-Informed IFS consultant & trainer in the San Francisco Bay Area. What is trauma-informed psychotherapy?

When traumas occur, they often get recorded on an "island" of the brain, cut off from communication with the rest of our brains. Since these islands don't get the benefit of new information, those memories exist in us, frozen in time. They are frozen in PARTS. There are many therapy models that work with 'parts', Internal Family Systems, Structural Dissociation, and Schema Therapy to name three. I

believe EMDR is also a 'parts' therapy--because our traumatic memories are stored in parts--but this is not explicit in the model. Helping a client to understand and work with their parts, can be non-pathologizing, and can greatly improve their progress!

08/14/2026

Sounds familiar to me… and under stress, it still feels like second nature. 🫩

06/17/2026

Biodiversity for kids.

06/12/2026

Good reminder.

06/12/2026

Spot on. 🫩

06/12/2026

A good reframe of toddlerhood.

Ruth Cohn!
06/10/2026

Ruth Cohn!

The amazing Ruth Cohn joins me today.

Ruth Cohn, MFT, CST, BCN, is a psychotherapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has specialized in working with survivors of trauma, neglect, and their partners and families since 1988.

Since that time she has focused on childhood neglect trauma and developed Neglect-Informed Psychotherapy, an approach that integrates attachment theory with clinical practice.

She is the author of Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect and Coming Home to Passion, along with numerous articles, podcasts, and educational resources on trauma and neglect. She is currently working on two additional books

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I want to let you know about a new course on Unblending I just finished with the Mind Body Training Institute. This cour...
06/09/2026

I want to let you know about a new course on Unblending I just finished with the Mind Body Training Institute. This course is a response to the session where everything feels stuck. Your client is overwhelmed. Or numb. Or caught in the same painful loop session after session.
So, you sit there listening, nodding along, while a quiet thought creeps in: I’m not sure I’m actually helping here.
Unblending in the Therapy Room:
Why it Matters
The introductory part is free with the option to continue the course for a fee.
✅ How to notice blending, whether it’s happening for your client or for you
✅ What hinders unblending, and how to work with it
✅ How this works regardless of your therapeutic approach so your colleagues trained in other modalities can benefit from the concept of unblending.
Click here to access the complimentary training: https://cwest--mbti.thrivecart.com/unblending-usd/6a0631dd2a16f/
Once you sign up, you have 7 days to watch it.
⏰ Registration expires on July 7, 2026.

Lots of love,
Colleen West, LMFT

Unblending in the Therapy Room: Why It Matters A Free Training to Help Clients when they Get STuck This training gave me ideas for those moments when I feel lost in sessions and don’t know what to do. Colleen is a wonderful trainer. She explains things so well. – Julian M. I WANT THIS FREE […]

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