The work is skills driven and experience driven rather than digging through past emotions, which is considered useless for change.
Strong consensusClients seeking relationship improvement.
“The work is skills driven and experience driven rather than digging through past emotions, which is considered useless for change.”
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“The work is skills driven and experience driven rather than digging through past emotions, which is considered useless for change.”
an attachment coach and former licensed marriage and family therapist · TikTok
“You can choose to stop living like the kid who had to survive and instead embrace vulnerability and love in your adult relationships.”
a mental health counselor and author · TikTok
“Integration is necessary to avoid being hijacked by the fragmented self and shadow, but presenting it as the ultimate goal suggests an isolated frame of reference and neglects connection beyond the personal psyche.”
a consultant psychiatrist and former Oxford fellow · source video
“Rather than imposing solutions, guiding patients to understand the root of their problems fosters intrinsic motivation and opens possibilities for insights and solutions they might not have considered.”
a consultant psychiatrist and former Oxford fellow · source video
“Ultimatums may open a channel for dialogue but can also harden divisions if not accompanied by willingness to listen and change.”
a media host and psychologist with a lapsed clinical license · source video
“Brutal honesty is necessary in family therapy to address issues effectively and avoid further resentment or denial.”
a media host and psychologist with a lapsed clinical license · source video
“Bringing what feels dark or overwhelming close with curiosity and compassion allows greater understanding and illumination, rather than numbing or avoidance which distorts and intensifies suffering.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“Sustaining connection requires being in the wise adult self rather than reactive, wounded inner child states which harm relationships.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“Confronting and integrating the shadow self, including past mistakes and less savory traits, is essential to prevent accumulation of unresolved issues that damage relationships and mental health.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“A robust capacity for self-reflection is necessary but should be balanced to avoid obsessive self-focus that can deepen shame and damage self-esteem.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“She acknowledges the value of therapy or coaching to untangle childhood trauma impacting adult relationships but warns against getting stuck in analysis without taking action.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“Having tolerance and acceptance for diversity of thinking and beliefs within family systems is crucial to reduce conflict and improve relationships.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“In families with difficult personalities or conflicting beliefs, the least reactive person holds the most power and can change the dynamic by not reacting and setting boundaries.”
a certified relationship coach · source video sponsored
“People are often unconsciously drawn to partners who resemble the dynamics of their childhood, such as addiction or violence, due to repetition compulsion.”
a certified relationship coach · source video
“Various therapies can be helpful in addressing addiction but may not fully resolve the root cause or prevent relapse without addressing underlying stories and identity.”
a mental health counselor and author · source video sponsored
“Let your uncomfortable feelings come instead of numbing or avoiding them, as avoidance leads to addiction, resentment, and rage; feel them and then take the next right step.”
a mental health counselor and author · source video sponsored
“Starting therapy is a good step to unpack the pain and grief from family rejection and medical trauma.”
a mental health counselor and author · source video sponsored
“The therapist's personal development and moral integrity can be intertwined with the patient's healing process, creating a shared transformative experience.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Supervision is important but may sometimes be unhelpful or alienating when dealing with very complex or disturbing cases, requiring therapists to seek additional support or approaches.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS represents maybe the safest mainstream technology we have for exploring interoception and different levels of consciousness and reality, opening an imaginal space that culture has abandoned, done in a powerful and responsible way.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video sponsored
“Guides are not parts of the internal personal system but are transpersonal in nature, which allows potential deep integration between IFS and Ally work.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video sponsored
“The self is best understood as a dialogical self composed of multiple I positions or parts that interact, rather than a monadic unified self, which aligns with converging evidence from psychotherapy, pragmatism, phenomenology, and cognitive science.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS is a cutting-edge psychotherapy that effectively facilitates healing by dialoguing with parts of the self, supported by neuroscientific endorsement and designed for both self-application and facilitated therapy.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Guardian parts protect us from danger and trauma but can blind us to wounded parts; recognizing and dialoguing with these parts is crucial for therapeutic progress.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“While the seat of consciousness is the light of attention managing perspectival knowing, Schwartz's reification of the self as an existing entity is problematic and conflicts with the no-thingness of the eye; a more functional, non-reified understanding is preferable.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Incorporating a Socratic method to engage parts in dialogue encourages recursive reflection and transformation, facilitating change by helping parts recognize their own contradictions and need for growth.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS is an attachment-based psychotherapy that offers significant experiential value despite conceptual complexity, helping clients engage with internal parts in a dialogical and healing way.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Family systems therapy focuses on identifying and restructuring dysfunctional family dynamics and boundaries through experiential exercises and therapist-guided interventions to improve relational patterns.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS can be understood as an attachment-based model that benefits from integrating attachment theory concepts to enhance therapeutic outcomes.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS is a constraint release modality that helps clients release outdated protector parts and trust new organic shifts, creating more internal space for change.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video sponsored
“IFS is a powerful parts dialogical therapy that bridges contemporary psychotherapy with imaginal and theurgic practices, facilitating engagement with semi-autonomous inner entities.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“The traditional buffered monadic self model is breaking down culturally and scientifically, being replaced by a dynamic, dialogical self model that is effective in therapeutic contexts and aligns with emerging cognitive science.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Plato proposed that the psyche has three centers with different motivations that often conflict, and wisdom involves optimizing their relations to reduce inner conflict and increase fullness of life.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS allows rapid access to deep emotional parts and facilitates internal dialogue that leads to quick emotional relief, often within six to ten sessions, unlike longer psychodynamic therapies.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Engaging in dialogue with internal parts both in therapy and independently helps clients recognize and soothe emotional states, enhancing therapeutic outcomes and self-understanding.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Parts can be viewed as crystallized emotional and cognitive states developed through repeated experiences, which explains their persistence and emotional intensity.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“CBT is effective for cognitive reframing but can feel like a technological intervention lacking engagement with the whole psyche, whereas IFS involves deeper emotional and dialogical work.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“Shamanic soul retrieval rituals symbolically restore repressed or exiled parts of the self, facilitating integration and life force restoration over multiple sessions.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS can be a powerful tool to address self-deception if practiced from a heart-centered, wise, and spiritually grounded orientation, but it can also be misused to deepen self-deception if practiced without such grounding.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
“IFS is effective for transformation by engaging in dialogical practices with parts of the self, and can be done both alone and with others, showing faster results than many other therapies according to cognitive scientist Mark Lewis.”
a University of Toronto cognitive scientist · source video
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If you have a good idea, write it down because it is a gift that could change your whole life and forgetting it could prevent progress.
Strong consensus“If you have a good idea, write it down because it is a gift that could change your whole life and forgetting it could prevent progress.”
Mental illnesses are symptoms of metabolic dysfunction affecting the whole body and brain, not just isolated brain problems.
Strong consensus“Mental illnesses are symptoms of metabolic dysfunction affecting the whole body and brain, not just isolated brain problems.”
He discusses new ways to treat anxiety, OCD, and PTSD by focusing on brain metabolic health rather than only symptoms.
Strong consensus“He discusses new ways to treat anxiety, OCD, and PTSD by focusing on brain metabolic health rather than only symptoms.”