Applying somatic principles to the Internal Family Systems model
SUSAN MCCONNELL, senior trainer for the Center for Self Leadership, has taught Internal Family Systems (IFS) in the U.S. and internationally since 1997. Somatic IFS, which McConnell developed in 2004, is a synthesis of her forty years of study, teaching, and clinical practice with bodywork, psychotherapy, and spiritual practices. McConnell holds a Master's Degree with an emphasis on Somatic Psychology, and is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and a Certified Hakomi Therapist. She was also instrumental in curriculum development for IFS trainings and, as a Hakomi faculty member, for a training for bodyworkers using the Hakomi Method to explore through touch the way mind, body, heart, and spirit weave together to form the client's experiential world. McConnell has had a private practice since 1983 in Chicago, where she offers bodymind integration and consultation.
“I am very honored and excited that Susan McConnell has finally
written this book that brings all of her wisdom from years of
somatic study and practice to the Internal Family Systems (IFS)
model.”
—Richard Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems therapy
and the IFS Institute
“Susan McConnell brilliantly weaves together science, clinical
stories, and experiential practices to bring Somatic IFS to life
for her reader. The deep wisdom she embodies from years of studying
the bodymind is felt in each of the five practices that are the
foundation of Somatic IFS and in her clear yet lyrical explanation
of the body systems that inform each practice. McConnell is an
expert guide to learning to listen to somatic stories and finding
the way to Embodied Self.”
—Deb Dana, LCSW, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
“Referencing many other body-oriented practices, therapists, and
researchers, this book offers an up-to-date, pragmatic method of
working somatically with people: a methodology which other
psychotherapists—especially those from non-somatic disciplines—can
readily learn from.”
—Courtenay Young, UK body psychotherapist, editor of the
International Journal of Psychotherapy
“Susan McConnell writes from her heart and her embodied experience,
as a counselor and an explorer in the somatic world. This book is
an expression of her whole life and career, and yet the ideas are
kept alive and honest through the immediacy of her practices—in
psychotherapy, in somatics, and in spirituality. I hope that this
book is read widely both in and beyond the IFS community.”
—Susan Aposhyan, LPC, author of Body-Mind Psychotherapy
“A brilliant psychotherapeutic integration of mind and body by a
wise and experienced somatic practitioner.… Through descriptions
and explanations of the five practices of Somatic IFS, illustrative
case examples, and guided practices, the author connects the gifts
of ancient medicine and contemporary neuroscience to the benefit of
professionals and laypersons alike. A unique and timely book.”
—Marcel A. Duclos, LCMHC, LPC, ACS, Diplomate, AMHCA, certified
Core Energetics therapist, certified IFS therapist
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