Inner Child Work with a Spiritual Twist

In this course, I’ll explain to you the Internal Family Systems Therapy created by Richard Schwartz. It’s a psychotherapeutic modality that assumes that we all have “Parts”. Parts are explained as emotions and behavioural mechanisms that we use on a regular basis. They are usually causing dysfunctional patterns of behaviors that we want to change.

With the help of this modality, you can help your clients, patients, and yourself recognize where those patterns came from and what you need to do to change them to healthy mechanisms. It’s a type of inner child work that can be compared to Schema Therapy. You use structured questions that you ask your Parts to be able to get to know them, appreciate them for their good intentions, and ultimately take over for them and create new functional behavioural patterns.

It’s an amazing therapy that you can practice on yourself and use in daily life to create good habits, appropriate boundaries,  promote healthy self-esteem, and practice self-compassion.

Your Parts think they need to keep working for you, but with Internal Family Systems Therapy, you can make them realize that they don’t have to be active anymore because you are the “Functional Adult” now taking over for them. I’ll provide you with my personal take on this therapy and with some advice when it comes to the use of this modality. It’s the main modality that I use with clients, even though I have studied multiple common therapies like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, and Art Therapy. Internal Family Systems Therapy is by far the most successful for treating my clients and for use on myself to deal with emotions and difficult situations. In this expanded version of my previous course, I also talk about spirituality and working with trans-generational Parts and Past Life Parts. This approach is already very spiritual, but I wanted to expand on it to give you more avenues to explore by yourself or with your clients.