by Robert Falconer | Sep 2, 2021 | Psychedelics, Featured, IFS Model, Trauma
Therapeutic and research work with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy started in the 1950s and 60s and then mostly stopped when the medicines became illegal. Many underground therapists kept doing this work at great personal risk to themselves because they knew how...
by Robert Falconer | Nov 29, 2020 | Addictions, Blog, Parts, Podcasts with Robert Falconer, Robert Falconer
Bob chats with Aníbal Enrique and Tisha Shull about traditional therapy, and how it differs from the way we work when integrating IFS and the 12 steps, based on his long experience with recovery and addictions. The traditional thing in addiction treatment is to join...
by Robert Falconer | Aug 15, 2020 | IFS Model, Parts, Robert Falconer, Teaching
Much of the work of my adult life was searching for ways to heal from severe trauma for myself and my clients. This search took me decades of hard work and there was much wasted effort and time. IFS is the most potent and respectful model I have found. I want...
by Robert Falconer | Jul 17, 2020 | IFS Model, Sexual Abuse, Trauma
This was my primary area of focus and expertise for most of my life. It was my training ground and testing ground for various healing methods. It is still at the base of what I do. Many therapists and people today are too young to remember, but back in the 70s and 80s...
by Robert Falconer | Jul 17, 2020 | Expressive Arts, IFS Model, IFS work, Movement, Teaching
The fields of movement, dance, and expressive arts are already to some extent unified within IFS but so much more could be done with movement. There is so much talk of somatic psychotherapy these days; but most of the time that’s all it is: talk. If people get...
by Robert Falconer | Jul 17, 2020 | IFS Model, Featured, IFS work, Unattached Burdens
Carl Jung discovered, that as we go deeper and deeper into our psyches we start to find things that transcend our personal life experiences. These realms, the others within, or what I also call the further reaches of IFS. Until I published The Others Within Us in...