We all have parts...Internal Family Systems (1.19 minutes)

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Written By Colleen West

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The human mind is normally multiple; we're born with these sub-personalities. In a non-injured, non-traumatized person, they have a kind of value to them; they have talents and resources for us. But when someone is traumatized, some of them become frozen in time, others take on protective roles that distort their natural talents and can become destructive. Um, and in what might be called, used to be called, multiple personality disorder, is just an explosion of what we normally are, rather than a sign of severe pathology.

Colleen West

Colleen West, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Holy Names College. She is a Internal Family Systems Approved Consultant (IFS), an EMDR International Consultant, and has extensive teaching, training and clinical experience resolving simple and complex trauma. She is author of We All Have Parts! An illustrated guide to healing trauma with Internal Family Systems and The IFS Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool for IFS Therapists.

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