# Internal Family Systems Therapy UK


## Posts

- [Why Scientists don't get consciousness...](https://ifsuk.org/why-scientists-dont-get-consciousness/): I spent twenty years teaching children excluded from school - mostly boys in their early teens - with thick files, police records, and usually a psychiatric diagnosis.
- [Exploring Consciousness](https://ifsuk.org/exploring-consciousness/): This article is an adaptation of a talk I gave at a conference in India….it starts off with a sensing exercise, which the reader may or may not wish to do.
- [Sometimes a cigarette is just a cigarette...](https://ifsuk.org/sometimes-a-cigarette-is-just-a-cigarette/): Albert Low was a Zen master based in Canada, who I had the honour of corresponding with.
- [Inside the Revolutionary Treatment That Could Change Psychotherapy Forever](https://ifsuk.org/inside-the-revolutionary-treatment-that-could-change-psychotherapy-forever/): This is a recent article by Ben Blum.
- [Pandemic](https://ifsuk.org/pandemic/): the most sacred of times?
- [Why Psychology is so out of touch with the real you!!](https://ifsuk.org/why-psychology-is-so-out-of-touch-with-the-real-you/): As a green eighteen year old I went to university to study Social Psychology. I was scared of the amount of statistics involved and switched over to Social Anthropology. In many ways in those halcyon days of 1968 I was very privileged, but found myself on the receiving end of tortuous theories - all insisting I was an epiphenomenon of society. Deep down I was convinced this was not true, especially after I took LSD, blinked twice, and realised everything was one thing, and I was the knower. It is gobsmacking just how confusing the world of philosophy, psychotherapy, and psychology is - because almost none of the practitioners have known they were looking through mental shackles.
- [In this world of the spiritually blind...](https://ifsuk.org/node-109/): After Shakyamuni's enlightenment, his first words were to someone called Upaka, to whom he said 'In this world of the spiritually blind I go to Benares to bang the drum of the deathless.' All of us - all humans - as we grow from infancy look in the mirrror of our parents, and take on board pictures of who they are and who we believe we are in relation to them. Rather like going to the opticians for an eye test, we end up with many lenses colouring our vision without even knowing it, we just take it for granted. Because the world of psychologists and sociologists do not know what it is to trust their own mind, we are all awash with theories and objectified pictures of ourselves. There is a medical students joke - but a very accurate one - that 'neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.' If we can see the castle in the air, we begin to see it doesnt really exist it is just a mental construction, which wobbles as we allow ourselves to see it. The we begin to trust our own perceptions and feel something of the intrinsic ground..... [...]
- [What is the Mind ??](https://ifsuk.org/node-108/): Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru who died in 1981. His book 'I am that' is one of the great spiritual classics - as you will see there is a pure Mind, which can only be found when we stop identifying with all the junk we think is me...Does internal family systems therapy draw on this pure Mind ? Well it can help to begin to align ourself with the power of knowing, of tuning into the felt sense of the body, of knowing what it is to step back and be the knowing, of being able to recognise trains of thought, and see them rather than be lost into them...Our culture is lost into the situation of the five blind men and the elephant and not knowing what is real....Maharaj is a good guide... [...]
- [Is  psychology wrong-headed?](https://ifsuk.org/node-107/): I did an online course on ‘Buddhism and Modern Psychology’, and found it useful to write an essay for the course on just how wrong-headed evolutionary psychologists appear to be. I studied Social Anthropology years ago and was equally stunned at how little access it gave to the mysteries of the human heart. The human sciences (including psychotherapy, philosophy, sociology and academic psychology) wrestle with studying the human mind and desperately try to pin it down with a myriad of theories. What they do not understand - which the Buddha did - is that we can only penetrate the Mind by trusting the principle of awareness. It is so simple and so direct, it cannot be conceived. When we allow ourself to settle down into being the knowing, we can recognize the ideas and representations we have gotten lost into. As Ajahn Cha (one of my teachers) once said, ‘Intellectuals are like vultures, they fly high but what do they feed on?': [...]
- [The world as love in action..](https://ifsuk.org/node-106/): I just loved this quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj - a beedi wallah in Bombay - who was extrordinarly incisive: [...]
- [The Five Blind Men and the Elephant](https://ifsuk.org/node-105/): What is all the turbulence and argument going on all over the world (I am thinking of the USA and the UK as I write)? Why are people so desperately trying to impose their opinion on others? [...]
- [The Touchstone (By RL Stevenson)](https://ifsuk.org/node-104/): This is a wonderful story by RLS - it points to the clear mirror of the heart we all possess but which is usualy covered over with images and pictures accumulated around a sense of a seperate 'me'. [...]
- [Learning to bear the beams of love....](https://ifsuk.org/node-103/): William Blake writes that "we are put on earth a little space,. That we may learn to bear the beams of love..." [...]
- ['God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer...."](https://ifsuk.org/node-102/): In this time of an almost complete lack of leadership in the UK, I found myself listening to Robert Kennedy's speeches : he is marvellously articulate; he quoted these words on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination, from his favourite poet, Aeschylus: “God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” [...]
- [The Natural Mind](https://ifsuk.org/node-101/): Nearly all of us are lost in the stories that go on in our minds. Mindfulness is the capacity to step back and begin to deconstruct the movie: to see it without reacting. If we do this patiently, honestly and courageously, we begin to see thoughts are only real because we invest our attention in them. They come and go, like waves, and disapear by themselves if we don't hold onto them. The real Mind cannot be found - just because we are it. We create an image of ourself which is constantly on the run - running away and running after. If we have the courage to face our fear and not invest in blind hope, we may be fortunate enough to be the knowing. Then we may find, as the 12th century Chan master Hongzhi Zhenjue writes: [...]
- [“With every step I do, I go towards you. Because who am I and who are you if we don’t understand one another?”](https://ifsuk.org/node-100/): I just spent a week living half way up a Swiss mountain in a Zen community, one of whose trustees is the Benedictine monk, Brother David Steindl-Rast. The following is an edited version of a conversation between him and Krista Tippett, which I think makes a very valuable point as to how we cannot escape anxiety, and that when we do not resist it, but face it, it can be part of the birth of a new form of Life. [...]
- [The courageous Heart...](https://ifsuk.org/node-99/): Christmas is often a hard time for many of us - travelling to see family we often come a cropper. People have lost faith in any deep truth - maybe many of us are seduced by the postmodern story that it is all just different stories - alt-truth. [...]
- [The real 'me'....and how our society sabotages it](https://ifsuk.org/node-98/): I am struck by the way the Mind is usually looking through a kind of telescope of ideas which feels like 'me' - and because the 'me' has set itself up against the rest of Life it feels afraid , alone and on the run. Healing seems to me to be an involuntary surrender - whether this is through sex, laughter, or insight which comes when we see through the ways in which our own ideas reify Life. Unfortunately - tragically - we seem to be in the grip of a collective mania where we increasingly feel alone and on the run, and believe it is our fault....The following article comes from George Monbiot in the Guardian on the 5th august 2014. [...]
- ['Psychology Today' endorses the IFS model - on recovering your integrity](https://ifsuk.org/node-97/): How and Why You Compromise Your Integrity [...]
- [IFS - covering up negative emotions doesn't work (From Psychology Today)](https://ifsuk.org/node-96/): An article from Psychology Today endorsing the IFS approach to healing negative emotions: [...]
- [Healing - by not going somewhere else!](https://ifsuk.org/node-95/): Therapy can take us on a relentless journey - if we really want to glimpse how we can heal ourselves and others, we are forced to put our trust in the depths of our own heart - that it contains potentials we have not begun to dream of - but we cannot open this up by trying to get somewhere else. [...]
- [Why we torture ourselves with the desire to be perfect...](https://ifsuk.org/node-94/): One of the most bewildering facets of human life that i have encountered is that people regularly construct a virtual reality mask, which is designed to be the exact opposite of how they really feel about themselves - my experience is that this is based on very early and uinversal tendencies in he human infant... Long ago I lived in upstate New York at the Phoenicia Pathwork centre, where I came across these astonishingly incisive accounts of how all this comes about (from pathwork lecture 58). The pathwork lectures go on to state that the infant in each one of us, reacting to insecuity and unhappiness, constructs a maks of perfection, which is the exact opposite of how we really fear we are, based on the following tendencies. Needless to say without recognising these tendencies in ourselves, we cannot escape the treadmill they create. [...]
- [Award as 'best integrative psychotherapist in South London'](https://ifsuk.org/node-93/): [...]
- [Why hope often leads you to frustration](https://ifsuk.org/node-92/): All of us find ourself longing for some kind of fulfilment, which so often seems to be disapointed at every step - since we find ourself already looking through a telescope of what is usually blind hope, we fail to see how much we often sacrifice ourselves on this altar (and alter!) and end up feeling cynical and frustrated. . Aldous Huxley once defined cynicism as someone who wouldnt take yes for an answer... [...]
- [IFS Session](https://ifsuk.org/node-91/): Perhaps I should emphasise the client concerned gave her express permission for this to be written up, and all identifying details were altered! [...]
- [What threatens the world most ?](https://ifsuk.org/node-90/): In the light of the pain of recent events on London Bridge and in Manchester, IFS is an efficient way to see through the barriers to the natural truth of the Mind, which is usually run by our conceits and fears. Ajita asks the Buddha, ‘What is it that smothers the world? What makes the world so hard to see? What would you say pollutes the world and threatens it most?’ ‘It is ignorance which smothers,’ the Buddha replies, ‘and it is heedlessness and greed which make the world invisible. The hunger of desire pollutes the world, and the great source of fear is the pain of suffering.’ ‘In every direction,’ said Ajita , ‘the rivers of desire are running. How can we dam them, and what will hold them back? What can we use to close the flood-gates?’ ‘Any such river can be halted with the dam of mindful awareness, ’ said the Buddha. ‘I call it the flood-stopper. And with wisdom you can close the flood-gates.’ (Sutta Nipata, vv. 1032-1036) [...]
- [The Child's Dilemma](https://ifsuk.org/node-89/): Fairbairn is one of my heroes - as a child we have no choice but to greedily eat what our parents put in our mouths. But often we felt poisoned, but because we needed them so badly, it was easier to believe there was something wrong with us, and they must really be perfect. It can take a long time to understand this situation, to feel our hunger, and dare to STAND our need and not just blindly swallow down what others offer. Fairbairn writes about this in the following excerpt from ‘Repression and the Return of bad Objects’: [...]
- [Some perspective on the human situation - from Saturn!](https://ifsuk.org/node-88/): The faint dot in the middle is the Earth seen through the rings of Saturn! [...]
- [How to heal your feelings....](https://ifsuk.org/node-87/): The following gem comes from pathwork lecture 165: [...]
- [Maybe why you argue with your partner?](https://ifsuk.org/node-86/): Back in 1984, I lived in the pathwork community in upstate New York, where these extrordinary lectures were given - this is one of the most incisive, exploring the link between the part of us that that can argue with our partner trying to force him or her into giving us the love we believed we failed to get as a child. However, the belief is based on deeply erroneus assumptions - as this lecture explores.. [...]
- [Recovering balance and well-being...](https://ifsuk.org/node-84/): How do we recover balance and well being, when we are suffering? [...]
- [Inside Out- the film based on IFS](https://ifsuk.org/node-79/): [...]
- [Riding the waves of the Mind...](https://ifsuk.org/node-83/): As we all know, it is so easy to be lost in the movies that go on in consciousness, and to feel hopeless - so I paste in below the Buddha's words on how consciousness (just like a real movie) is made up of many states that are all arising and ceasing. Seeing this makes all the difference - states will actually dissolve, if you can ride the wave down into the ocean....Waves by their very nature are arising and ceasing - but we become blind to this when we are lost in thoughts, which can reify our mind... [...]
- [Like a dog chasing its tail...](https://ifsuk.org/node-82/): My Zen teacher once described much of his practice as having been like a dog chasing its tail. I only recently really got how much of my own efforts to heal myself, practice the Dharma, figure things out have been like this too. Its so ironic that it takes despair (not seeing the connection between cause and effect, as Nisargadattta defines it) to challenge our melodramas about Life, to really stop us in our tracks. Only then can we begin to know what it means to just be the knowing. Its so simple that the thinking mind - which is addicted to liking and not liking, and revolves around a fixed sense of me in here, and the world out there, just cannot get. [...]
- [Mindfulness....an interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://ifsuk.org/node-81/): Having struggled to be mindful as a Buddhist monk building a road, tiling a roof, cleaning toilets, sitting through pain, I have often been puzzled by the way western psychologists have latched onto a convenient definition of mindfulness as non-judgemental awareness in the moment. Do they know how often emotions are raging, and carrying one away ? How hard it can be to relinquish an opinion you based your life on ? [...]
- [Disney-Pixar's view of the Mind a la IFS](https://ifsuk.org/node-80/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIDYqBMFzfg [...]
- [TED talk on IFS](https://ifsuk.org/node-55/): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd8AvecXpy8 [...]
- [Giving up hope for satisfaction outside yourself](https://ifsuk.org/node-54/): [...]
- [Inner Judge Speaks!](https://ifsuk.org/node-53/): [...]
- [NHS recognises mindfulness is good for depression](https://ifsuk.org/node-52/): [...]
- [Bipolar and Internal Family Sytems therapy](https://ifsuk.org/node-51/): Check out Peter Gerlach's video on how to treat bipolar disorder with psychotherapy based on internal family systems. [...]
- [freeing the mind itself](https://ifsuk.org/node-48/): The mind, or the natural you cannot actually be split. As a zen poem says: [...]
- [Zen and the Art of Psychotherapy](https://ifsuk.org/node-47/): Sitting - recognising bare attention. It lights up. (Samadhi is prajna). [...]
- [Healing ...](https://ifsuk.org/node-46/): To the degree that struggle and tension exist in a personality, the various aspects of [...]
- [IFS in the news..](https://ifsuk.org/node-45/): Internal family systems (IFS) (The Sunday Times 7/8/2011) [...]
- [IFS takes off..](https://ifsuk.org/node-44/): IFS seems to be expanding now, lots of practitioners and trainings and a certain "hey this works" buzz gathering around it. I can't remember how I heard about it, but I'm very glad I did. I've always been interested in therapies which employ the concept of "parts", "subpersonalities", [...]
- [How IFS developed...by Dr Richard Schwartz..](https://ifsuk.org/node-39/): @font-face { [...]
- [Felicia's story - coming home!](https://ifsuk.org/node-57/): Felicia came to see me feeling that she did not know what to do with herself when she went home. She was outwardly very successful – and earned a lot of money. She felt as if she was always running towards a goal somewhere in the future, but did not really know what that goal was. [...]
- [IFS & Mindfulness.](https://ifsuk.org/node-58/): As therapists increasingly incorporate mindfulness into their work, they’re discovering what Buddhists have known for centuries: everyone (even those with severe inner turmoil) can access a state of spacious well-being by beginning to notice their more turbulent thoughts and feelings, rather than becoming swallowed up by them. As people relate to their disturbing inner experiences from this calm, mindful place, not only are they less overwhelmed, but they can become more accepting of the aspects of themselves with which they’ve been struggling. Still the question remains of how best to incorporate mindfulness into psychotherapy. [...]
- [Humility and the 'ego'](https://ifsuk.org/node-59/): This passage on the value of humility is very profound and i apologize to anyone dipping into my website, not prepared for this - but I have found it fundamentally very true - Benoit wrote this after a distinguished career as a violinist and a surgeon only to be caught up in the allied bombings of the V1 missile bunkers in Calais - he lost the use of his right hand so he really knew what he was talking about: [...]
- [YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...](https://ifsuk.org/node-72/): Someone said to me recently that if you cant say No, you cant be free to choose. As Dr Seuss put it: [...]
- [Misconceptions of happiness and unhappiness](https://ifsuk.org/node-73/): excerpted from pathwork lecture 58 [...]
- [Mindfulness - is only real when we can give up the self-view](https://ifsuk.org/node-74/): Walking round the upper level of the three circumambulatory paths round the temple of Bodh Gaya and the Bodhi tree (where the Buddha was enligfhtened), I came across a small boy about seven years old, sitting against the stone railings, asleep and alone, in Tibetan monks robes; someone had tucked a ten rupee note into his robes. [...]
- ['Through the gateway of feeling my weakness lies your strength...'](https://ifsuk.org/node-75/): The process of healing the negative consists of first identifying honestly the negativities within, then allowing ourselves to fully feel the feelings behind them. Any feeling we avoid gains power over us until we allow it to be felt. Old wounds fester within because we buried feelings we dared not feel at the time, afraid they would overwhelm us. From childhood, when we were emotionally immature, we carried forth the belief that strong feelings could not be tolerated. Healing comes through feeling whatever needs to be felt and learning that it is no longer unbearable. As we experience our feelings fully, we find a new strength within. In Pathwork Lecture #190, "The Importance of Experiencing All Feelings, Including Fear," the Pathwork Guide says: [...]
- [What is mindfulness?](https://ifsuk.org/node-71/): I have found mindfulness profoundly challenging - because I had to wean the parts of my mind that were addicted to false supports. In questioning the widespread development of modern mindfulness I came across this short introduction to mindfulness by Master Sheng-Yen, who was one of my teachers, which I think puts things into perspective. Internal Family Systems attempts to systematically recognise and identify the obstacles to mindfulness - trusting your deepest nature. [...]
- [Death...a painless arrest in the corridor of time](https://ifsuk.org/node-70/): The following blog post was written by a young woman just after she had been caught up in a killer's random firing in a Toronto mall. She had a strange sense of something amiss which took her out of the mall just before the crime happened. I hope you won't be upset by this blog, because to me, the taste of death can be oddly liberating - it takes away all the imaginary future we live in and leaves us utterly at peace in the unknown - smack in this moment. [...]
- ['Be patient to all that is unsolved in your heart...'](https://ifsuk.org/node-69/): 'Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. [...]
- [The Psychiatrist who doesnt believe in anti-depressants](https://ifsuk.org/node-68/): Dr Joanna Moncrieff, senior lecturer in psychiatry at University College London and author of The Myth Of The Chemical Cure. [...]
- [What are you looking for ?](https://ifsuk.org/node-67/): Paul Tillich described neurosis as 'the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.' The trouble is that the more we avoid ourself out of our fears, the more we feel empty and lost, and then the tendency is to look even harder to fill ourself up. Ours society completely colludes with this illusory vision, constantly holding out an idea to pursue, or something to buy - secretly telling us then you'll feel good. [...]
- [How 'mindfulness' gets sold (down the river?)](https://ifsuk.org/node-66/): As an ex-Buddhist monk, I spent years sitting - sometimes my mind would stop, but sometimes that could be really scary. There is a joke but a very accurate one that neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and the psychiatrist collects the rent. So when your castle in the air begins to crumble and you fall into space, it can be scary. Nevertheless, the space, the pure mind is the true agent of healing - sadly this seems to have become commercialized in a kind of gold rush by psychologists... [...]
- [William Blake's vison of the 'deadly dreams of good and evil'](https://ifsuk.org/node-77/): I just loved this comment from William Blake - I think it puts it finger on just how obsessed we are with whether we are good or bad.... [...]
- [Addiction: A Zen Perspective](https://ifsuk.org/node-60/): Perhaps should clearly point out I did not write this but liked it so much I have copied it here. [...]
- [Self-confidence - its true origin and what prohibits it](https://ifsuk.org/node-61/): This is a pathwork lecture http://pathwork.org/the-lectures/ [...]
- [Why you cant rely on psychiatrists…](https://ifsuk.org/node-62/): [...]
- [Cradle your suffering with awareness..](https://ifsuk.org/node-76/): The Buddha taught us to recognise our suffering - just to fully acknowledge it without reacting. When we bathe our suffering in mindful awareness, we discover there is a refuge in us, one that has resources we could not imagine, which can gradually dissolve whatever it is facing. As Thich Nhat Hanh writes, the 'practice is not to fight or suppress the feeling, but rather to cradle it with a lot of tenderness.' [...]
- [Healing is trusting in the natural Mind....](https://ifsuk.org/node-65/): I loved this encounter between John Blofeld and Xu Yun - the Chan Master in China who lived to the age of 120. What I love about it is the trenchant reminder that enlightenment is just seeing there is no place to reach - right here, right now, just being the knowing. Its so simple its easy to overlook (the understatement of the century) but it is alive and well, and undamaged in all of us - without it healing would be impossible... [...]
- [View from my Swiss retreat - Nothing like mountains to blow the Mind](https://ifsuk.org/node-63/): Half way up Mt Rigi, sitting still, mind on the sensations of the whole body, mind and body begins to unify. All information about the world comes through the body - light through the eye, sound through the ear, touch through the skin, smells through the nose, tastes through the tongue. As the mind and body unify, so the apparent duality between the environment and the self also unifies. Hearing an owl, there is no gap between the sounds and the one who hears - as the Buddha put it, 'In the sound, there is just the sound'. This is a magical miraculous world, which we are normally shut out of by believing in the constructions of the Mind. [...]
- ['Thus play I in one person many people...'](https://ifsuk.org/node-37/): And none contented: sometimes am I king; [...]
- [The key to the heart...](https://ifsuk.org/node-23/): I went to talk to a 10 yr old boy who had nearly strangled someone. His mother was screaming at me, 'My son does not have mental health problems!' I said, well we all do, and asked the boy, 'What sort of animal is your anger ? He said, 'Its a lion that kills its prey!' Later he told me,'the lion and me think differently - he goes boo and I go eek! Out of the mouths of babes... I went on Radio 4 to talk about this on a programme about knife crime - my heart sank as they brought in someone else who said all psychologising is a waste of time - kids who are violent only understand firm handling. But listening to the programme later found out Dominic Grieve (Shadow Home Sec) and the presenter from the Centre for Crime & Justice at Kings College had really liked it [...]
- [Reaching the parts nothing else does...](https://ifsuk.org/node-24/): Watching Dick Schwartz (the creator of IFS) work with someone who had a deep sadness in his heart but was terrified to go there. Part of him said it cant be healed, there's no point, I'll only feel hopeless... Dick is just so clear that the sadness can be healed, and that the protectors can continue doing their job if they really want to, but if they would like a break he can guarantee the parts they hide can be healed...As the protectors were willing to seperate from the man, so he could open his heart, and see and understand the deep sadness of the boy in him from a place of Self - it is this dual consciounsness that is so powerful - not lost in the emotion, not lost in intellectualising.. [...]
- [The proof of love is simple:  Gustato spiritu, desipit omnis caro.[1]  (Once I taste of the spirit...](https://ifsuk.org/node-38/): [...]
- [Submission and resistance destroy the ability to allow things to be the way they are...](https://ifsuk.org/node-35/): Submission and resistance destroys the ability to allow things to be the way they are, [...]
- [IFS Spirituality and Self......](https://ifsuk.org/node-36/): [...]
- [Retreating in Japan](https://ifsuk.org/japan-art-of-zen-psychotherapy/): getting up at 3.27am every morning in a two walled shinto shrine - it took me ten minutes to get my three futons rolled up and stashed away in .. [...]
- [Hello world!](https://ifsuk.org/hello-world/): [...]

## Pages

- [Inside the Revolutionary Treatment That Could Change Psychotherapy Forever](https://ifsuk.org/inside-the-revolutionary-treatment-that-could-change-psychotherapy-forever/): This is a recent article written by Ben Blum.
- [Pandemic](https://ifsuk.org/pandemic/): the most sacred of times?
- [Contact me](https://ifsuk.org/contact-me/)
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://ifsuk.org/frequently-asked-questions/)
- [Blog](https://ifsuk.org/blog/)
- [Home](https://ifsuk.org/): Feeling down, stressed or out of touch with yourself ? I offer brief or long term therapy for individuals.
- [Case Study Adrienne](https://ifsuk.org/case-study-adrienne/): ‘Adrienne’ came to me and said she had problems dealing with her boyfriend when he was in a bad mood.
- [about psychotherapy](https://ifsuk.org/about-psychotherapy/): How psychotherapy helps to heal Contact me on bruce@ifsuk.org The way I work with psychotherapy is to help you focus inside on the reaction you want to change.
- [IFS - the nuts and bolts of it](https://ifsuk.org/ifs-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-it/): IFS (internal family systems therapy) is an extremely efficient way of working because: • It has a simple way to negotiate with the parts of your Mind that are trying to protect you, and run your life for you, so that they can take the risk to trust its safe to step aside.
- [Case Study: Felicia](https://ifsuk.org/case-study-felicia/): 'Felicia' came to see me feeling that she did not know what to do with herself when she went home.
- [Case Study Gretchen](https://ifsuk.org/case-study-gretchen/): 'Gretchen' came finding it very difficult to stand up to her partner and say no to him.
- [IFS  supervision](https://ifsuk.org/ifs-supervision/): Dick Schwartz (the founder of IFS) has authorised me as a IFS supervisor for both indiviudals and groups.
- [Google Apps Page](https://ifsuk.org/google-apps-page/)
- [Integrated Psychotherapy](https://ifsuk.org/integrated-psychotherapy/): Hello… I have been a member of the UKCP integrated psychotherapy section since 1990.
- [Pathwork](https://ifsuk.org/pathwork/): 'The fulfillment so painfully longed for can be attained only when you, as an adult, proceed to search within yourself for all that you still look for outside of yourself.
- [About me](https://ifsuk.org/about-me/): Contact me via bruce@ifsuk.org Before training as an integrative psychotherapist in the late eighties, I was a Buddhist monk for five years.
- [Case Study David](https://ifsuk.org/case-study-david/): ‘David’ put a lot of pressure on himself to please other people. He got very upset when they weren’t happy with him.
- [Internal Family Systems therapy - new ways to unlock your mind](https://ifsuk.org/internal-family-systems-therapy-new-ways-to-unlock-your-mind/): Feeling down, stressed or out of touch with yourself ? I offer brief or long term therapy for individuals.

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