Dr Richard Schwartz

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Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He found that when the clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, the clients would experience spontaneously the qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self.

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Reviews

LorieAnn Buchanan

Oct 5, 2026

So interesting, thank you 🙏

Lee Suttles

Oct 5, 2026

Love learning about internal family systems

Faith

Oct 5, 2026

This was good. I think I need more information regarding how to identify each part. Thank you for this opportunity to begin learning about and acknowledging my various parts.

Faith

Oct 4, 2026

Thank you for finally understanding me and that I am not crazy!

Lizzy Fors

Oct 3, 2026

Thank you 🙏

Faith

Sep 30, 2026

Very helpful. Would love to hear the full talk. Thank you.

Connie

Sep 24, 2026

Thank you for helping me to understand IFS more. I was starting to read a book on it and stopped and nope this helped fuel me to continue the work- thank you so much!!

Leslie

Sep 21, 2026

Thank you for your teachings! IFS has helped me and my clients so much!

Amy Brice

Sep 13, 2026

Amazing

d•i• •y•

Sep 1, 2026

Fascinating…and coherent—in an area (“IFS”) that often mystifies me. Actually, I’m not familiar with IFS enough to try to even describe it to someone. Where should I start, to get a layperson-centric understanding?

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