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  • Ann L. Sinko, LMFT has 30 years of clinical experience and is licensed marriage and family therapist in Connecticut. She is in private practice and has been teaching as a adjunct Professor in the Marriage and family therapy program at Central CT State University for 25 years.Ann has integrated IFS theory and technique in all facets of her creative work with families, couples, individuals and groups. She has a background in gestalt therapy and uses sandtray therapy in her work with client. Ann conducts continuing education workshops on Legacy Burdens and creative externalization of parts. She brings her down to earth, concrete style along with a sense of humor to her teaching and training , and has been a IFS lead Trainer since 2007.Ann has also authored a chapter on Legacy Burdens in Martha Sweezy and Ellen Ziskind “Innovations and Elaborations in IFS - 2017.

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  • Martha Sweezy, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Program Consultant and Supervisor at Cambridge Health Alliance, and former Assistant Director and Director of Training for the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program at Cambridge Health Alliance.Martha Sweezy has published several books on IFS therapy, and has authored articles and chapters like:

    The Teenager’s Confession: Regulating Shame in Internal Family Systems Therapy, AJP,2011.
    Emotional Cannibalism: Shame in Action - in innovations and elaborations - 2013
    Getting Unstuck (with Pam krause and Lawrence Rosenberg) - 2017
    What IFS Offers to the treatment of trauma (with Frank Anderson) - 2017

    Martha Sweezy is also responsible for Titles like:
    1. Internal Family Systems New Dimensions (with Ellen Ziskind)- Routledge 2013
    2. Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy with Toni Herbine-Blank and Donna M. Kerpelman - Routledge, 2015
    3. Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, with Ellen Ziskind - 2017 by routledge.
    4. Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD and Substance Abuse, with Frank Anderson and Richard Schwartz - 2017 by Pesi.
    5. and more recently the Internal Family Systems Therapy Second Edition - with Dick Schwartz 2019 by Guilford.

    Martha has a therapy and consultation practice in Northampton, Massachusetts, and has a particular interest in how shame and guilt affect human behavior.

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  • Robert Falconer has an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology, with a focus on the history of religions.In the early 1980s he pursued his masters degree in psychology while balancing a career in construction and real estate investment.When Robert started as a therapist, he focused on the work of Milton Erickson and hypnotherapy. He then moved into working with Jack and Helen Watkins; who developed ego state therapy. In his career as a therapist, Robert spent considerable time at the Esalen Institute and decades involved in gestalt therapy. Robert has been familiar with IFS therapy for 20 years, but completely devoted himself to the model for the last 10 years.

    Robert was one of the first men to speak publicly about being sexually abused as a child, and for many years he worked primarily with men with a similar trauma history. Now he works with people learning IFS. Most recently Robert co-authored with Dick Schwartz a book entitled “Many Minds, One Self:evidence for a radical shift in paradigm“

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  • Our guest for this episode is a young woman in her thirties, sharing her life as well as a research job with a kind and loving partner, with whom she feels connected and safe.However, eighteen months ago, this young woman started seeing a therapist. Back then, Mary was struggling with extreme perfectionist and demanding parts, that could exaust her, trigger anxious and depressed parts, that very often exiled Mary in her bedroom, for days.Today we ask Mary to share her journey in internal family systems therapy.

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  • This is an IFS Talk with Cece Sykes, an IFS Senior Trainer, US and international. She has Contributed to Levels 1 and 2 IFS training manuals and teaches L1 as well as L2 Trauma and Addiction. Cece has over thirty years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and families, specializing in work with the effects of trauma and addiction. Her chapter on compassionate approaches to addictive process appears in IFS: Innovations and Elaborations. Cece also has special interests in spiritual practices intersecting with therapy and in the impact of psychotherapy upon the life of the therapist and she lectures, consults and leads workshops on all of these topics. Cece lives and works in the city of Chicago.

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  • Lawrence Rosenberg is a psychologist in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a therapy and consultation practice for individuals and couples. Lawrence is a supervisor at Cambridge Health Alliance and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1989 from Yale University, where being introduced to psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral models established his outlook as an integrative therapist.
    During his internship and subsequent trainings, he incorporated trauma-informed, hypnosis and behavioral medicine perspectives.Today, IFS is the primary lens through which Larry views the world and he loves teaching it. He is on the staff of Toni Herbine-Blank’s couples therapy program, Intimacy from the Inside Out, and assists annually at Richard Schwartz and Sarah Stewart’s IFS workshop at Kripalu in western Massachusetts.He is particularly enthusiastic about sexuality and LGBTQ experiences.
    Outside of professional life, Larry takes delight in the arts (film, theatre, museums), travel, dancing, exercise, and baking desserts.

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