Clinical Development Team
Clinical Development Team
Guided by
Clinical Wisdom
Guided by
Clinical Wisdom
Parts Companion was carefully developed with input from leading parts-work clinicians, practitioners, trainers, and renown speakers and authors.
Our rigorous testing process ensures accurate recognition of IFS elements- like parts, blending, and Self-while acknowledging the subjective and evolving nature of the inner world, and giving clients and practitioners tools to modify the notes as they see fit.
We could not do this without them.
The below is a subset of our clinical team of over 20 wonderful clinicians and practitioners. If you're a senior clinician, trainer, or consultant and are interested in contributing to the research and development of Parts Companion, reach out to us at hello@partscompanion.org
The below is a subset of our clinical team of over 20 wonderful clinicians and practitioners. If you're a senior clinician, trainer, or consultant and are interested in contributing to the research and development of Parts Companion, reach out to us at hello@partscompanion.org
Paul Ginter, Ed.D.
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Paul Ginter, Ed.D. is a highly respected psychologist, trainer, and co-founder of both the IFS Consultation Collective and the Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With decades of clinical experience, Paul brings warmth, depth, and clarity to his work with individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. As a Lead Trainer for the Institute for Internal Family Systems (IFS), Paul has led more than 75 trainings in 14 countries, helping thousands of professionals deepen their understanding and practice of the IFS Model. His passion for personal growth, professional development, and the healing power of connection is reflected in the ways he works with others.
Paul's wisdom and care is infused in many aspects of Part's companion's handling of both clients and practitioners. For example, Paul contributed expertise on Self-energy embodiment and the 8 C's, unblending coaching and part identification, direct access methodology with protectors, unburdening and polarization management, and the critical distinction between healthy connection versus blending.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Paul Ginter, Ed.D.
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Paul Ginter, Ed.D. is a highly respected psychologist, trainer, and co-founder of both the IFS Consultation Collective and the Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With decades of clinical experience, Paul brings warmth, depth, and clarity to his work with individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. As a Lead Trainer for the Institute for Internal Family Systems (IFS), Paul has led more than 75 trainings in 14 countries, helping thousands of professionals deepen their understanding and practice of the IFS Model. His passion for personal growth, professional development, and the healing power of connection is reflected in the ways he works with others.
Paul's wisdom and care is infused in many aspects of Part's companion's handling of both clients and practitioners. For example, Paul contributed expertise on Self-energy embodiment and the 8 C's, unblending coaching and part identification, direct access methodology with protectors, unburdening and polarization management, and the critical distinction between healthy connection versus blending.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Paul Ginter, Ed.D. is a highly respected psychologist, trainer, and co-founder of both the IFS Consultation Collective and the Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness in Kalamazoo, Michigan. With decades of clinical experience, Paul brings warmth, depth, and clarity to his work with individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. As a Lead Trainer for the Institute for Internal Family Systems (IFS), Paul has led more than 75 trainings in 14 countries, helping thousands of professionals deepen their understanding and practice of the IFS Model. His passion for personal growth, professional development, and the healing power of connection is reflected in the ways he works with others.
Paul's wisdom and care is infused in many aspects of Part's companion's handling of both clients and practitioners. For example, Paul contributed expertise on Self-energy embodiment and the 8 C's, unblending coaching and part identification, direct access methodology with protectors, unburdening and polarization management, and the critical distinction between healthy connection versus blending.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Seonghee Son, MS, CIT, WP
IFS Approved Clincial Consultant
Seonghee Son is a Korean psychotherapist whose work has been deeply shaped by her own lived experiences of family trauma. She has devoted her clinical work to supporting individuals, couples, and families in trauma healing and relational repair using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. She contributes to expanding access to IFS in Korea through translating English-language IFS books and is the developer of Korean IFS Cards, a clinical and psychoeducational tool. She is currently conducting doctoral research exploring the lived experiences of Self among IFS therapists in both the United States and Korea. Seonghee collaborates with Robert Falconer in supporting international IFS education and integrating Korean cultural perspectives into IFS psychotherapy.
SeongHee Son was instrumental in shaping our approach to visual representation of parts, drawing from her experience creating IFS cards and parts mapping tools. Her insights into balancing image intensity, maintaining warmth in AI-generated content, and adapting IFS concepts across cultural contexts informed our design of accessible, emotionally intelligent visualization features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Seonghee Son, MS, CIT, WP
IFS Approved Clincial Consultant
Seonghee Son is a Korean psychotherapist whose work has been deeply shaped by her own lived experiences of family trauma. She has devoted her clinical work to supporting individuals, couples, and families in trauma healing and relational repair using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. She contributes to expanding access to IFS in Korea through translating English-language IFS books and is the developer of Korean IFS Cards, a clinical and psychoeducational tool. She is currently conducting doctoral research exploring the lived experiences of Self among IFS therapists in both the United States and Korea. Seonghee collaborates with Robert Falconer in supporting international IFS education and integrating Korean cultural perspectives into IFS psychotherapy.
SeongHee Son was instrumental in shaping our approach to visual representation of parts, drawing from her experience creating IFS cards and parts mapping tools. Her insights into balancing image intensity, maintaining warmth in AI-generated content, and adapting IFS concepts across cultural contexts informed our design of accessible, emotionally intelligent visualization features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Seonghee Son is a Korean psychotherapist whose work has been deeply shaped by her own lived experiences of family trauma. She has devoted her clinical work to supporting individuals, couples, and families in trauma healing and relational repair using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. She contributes to expanding access to IFS in Korea through translating English-language IFS books and is the developer of Korean IFS Cards, a clinical and psychoeducational tool. She is currently conducting doctoral research exploring the lived experiences of Self among IFS therapists in both the United States and Korea. Seonghee collaborates with Robert Falconer in supporting international IFS education and integrating Korean cultural perspectives into IFS psychotherapy.
SeongHee Son was instrumental in shaping our approach to visual representation of parts, drawing from her experience creating IFS cards and parts mapping tools. Her insights into balancing image intensity, maintaining warmth in AI-generated content, and adapting IFS concepts across cultural contexts informed our design of accessible, emotionally intelligent visualization features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT is a Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) where he served as director of the COAMFTE-accredited Masters Program in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from 1994 – 2021. With Dr. Richard Schwartz, Dr. Cohen developed the internal Family Systems Professional Training Program at CCSU in 1997 and has served as its coordinator to the present time. He is a Solo Lead Trainer for IFS and has taught Level 1 and 2 trainings since 2005 at CCSU. Dr. Cohen is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and is a Certified Consultant for the Internal Family Systems Institute (IFSI). He was a founding co-editor of the IFS-oriented Journal of Self Leadership. He has taught workshops and intro courses in IFS locally and internationally. As a licensed psychologist and Marriage and Family therapist, Ralph has a private practice in West Hartford, CT, providing IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families.
Ralph's contributions have been instrumental to virtually every decision and feature offered by Parts Companion over the last year. To name a few, Ralph shaped our approach to blending and unblending dynamics, implicit versus explicit direct access, fire drill practice exercises for practitioner skill development, legacy burden structures, and exile witnessing and care during unburdening.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT is a Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) where he served as director of the COAMFTE-accredited Masters Program in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from 1994 – 2021. With Dr. Richard Schwartz, Dr. Cohen developed the internal Family Systems Professional Training Program at CCSU in 1997 and has served as its coordinator to the present time. He is a Solo Lead Trainer for IFS and has taught Level 1 and 2 trainings since 2005 at CCSU. Dr. Cohen is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and is a Certified Consultant for the Internal Family Systems Institute (IFSI). He was a founding co-editor of the IFS-oriented Journal of Self Leadership. He has taught workshops and intro courses in IFS locally and internationally. As a licensed psychologist and Marriage and Family therapist, Ralph has a private practice in West Hartford, CT, providing IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families.
Ralph's contributions have been instrumental to virtually every decision and feature offered by Parts Companion over the last year. To name a few, Ralph shaped our approach to blending and unblending dynamics, implicit versus explicit direct access, fire drill practice exercises for practitioner skill development, legacy burden structures, and exile witnessing and care during unburdening.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT is a Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) where he served as director of the COAMFTE-accredited Masters Program in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from 1994 – 2021. With Dr. Richard Schwartz, Dr. Cohen developed the internal Family Systems Professional Training Program at CCSU in 1997 and has served as its coordinator to the present time. He is a Solo Lead Trainer for IFS and has taught Level 1 and 2 trainings since 2005 at CCSU. Dr. Cohen is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and is a Certified Consultant for the Internal Family Systems Institute (IFSI). He was a founding co-editor of the IFS-oriented Journal of Self Leadership. He has taught workshops and intro courses in IFS locally and internationally. As a licensed psychologist and Marriage and Family therapist, Ralph has a private practice in West Hartford, CT, providing IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families.
Ralph's contributions have been instrumental to virtually every decision and feature offered by Parts Companion over the last year. To name a few, Ralph shaped our approach to blending and unblending dynamics, implicit versus explicit direct access, fire drill practice exercises for practitioner skill development, legacy burden structures, and exile witnessing and care during unburdening.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D
Integrative Trauma Consultant
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, clinical trainer, integrative trauma consultant, author, and international speaker dedicated to providing education on integrative trauma-informed therapies. She is the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Complex Trauma Recovery. She is certified in EMDR and is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant with twenty years of clinical experience providing trauma treatment. She is considered an expert clinician in Internal Family Systems Therapy, having first trained in IFS in 2018, certified in 2019, and completed over 460 hours of IFS training including her Level 3 with Dick Schwartz. From May 2021-November 2025, she served as an IFS certified Approved Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. Grounded in the understanding that traumatic stress is multilayered—relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual—Dr. Fatter brings a neuroscience-based, compassionate, humble, and skills-based approach to professional development and education. She has authored works on Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, countertransference, mindfulness, and ancestral healing. As a certified ancestral healing practitioner, she also works with intergenerational and historical trauma. She offers engaging workshops, webinars, and trainings on a range of trauma-related topics, including PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, and divorce recovery. Dr. Fatter approaches her work with curiosity and humility. Dr. Fatter shares, “I learn something from just about every person I work with, whether they’re a world-renowned instructor or client coming to me for healing and support. I believe my job as a therapist—and mental health advocate—is to reorient the people with whom I work so they can access their innermost wisdom and resilience to move forward in their lives”.
Dr. Daphne Fatter played a critical role in developing our understanding of legacy burdens and intergenerational trauma within the IFS framework, establishing classification systems that honor the complexity of ancestral patterns. Her rigorous approach to practitioner feedback calibration and trauma-informed meditation design ensured our AI tools maintain the highest standards of clinical safety and therapeutic integrity.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D
Integrative Trauma Consultant
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, clinical trainer, integrative trauma consultant, author, and international speaker dedicated to providing education on integrative trauma-informed therapies. She is the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Complex Trauma Recovery. She is certified in EMDR and is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant with twenty years of clinical experience providing trauma treatment. She is considered an expert clinician in Internal Family Systems Therapy, having first trained in IFS in 2018, certified in 2019, and completed over 460 hours of IFS training including her Level 3 with Dick Schwartz. From May 2021-November 2025, she served as an IFS certified Approved Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. Grounded in the understanding that traumatic stress is multilayered—relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual—Dr. Fatter brings a neuroscience-based, compassionate, humble, and skills-based approach to professional development and education. She has authored works on Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, countertransference, mindfulness, and ancestral healing. As a certified ancestral healing practitioner, she also works with intergenerational and historical trauma. She offers engaging workshops, webinars, and trainings on a range of trauma-related topics, including PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, and divorce recovery. Dr. Fatter approaches her work with curiosity and humility. Dr. Fatter shares, “I learn something from just about every person I work with, whether they’re a world-renowned instructor or client coming to me for healing and support. I believe my job as a therapist—and mental health advocate—is to reorient the people with whom I work so they can access their innermost wisdom and resilience to move forward in their lives”.
Dr. Daphne Fatter played a critical role in developing our understanding of legacy burdens and intergenerational trauma within the IFS framework, establishing classification systems that honor the complexity of ancestral patterns. Her rigorous approach to practitioner feedback calibration and trauma-informed meditation design ensured our AI tools maintain the highest standards of clinical safety and therapeutic integrity.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, clinical trainer, integrative trauma consultant, author, and international speaker dedicated to providing education on integrative trauma-informed therapies. She is the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Complex Trauma Recovery. She is certified in EMDR and is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant with twenty years of clinical experience providing trauma treatment. She is considered an expert clinician in Internal Family Systems Therapy, having first trained in IFS in 2018, certified in 2019, and completed over 460 hours of IFS training including her Level 3 with Dick Schwartz. From May 2021-November 2025, she served as an IFS certified Approved Clinical Consultant with the IFS Institute. Grounded in the understanding that traumatic stress is multilayered—relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual—Dr. Fatter brings a neuroscience-based, compassionate, humble, and skills-based approach to professional development and education. She has authored works on Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, countertransference, mindfulness, and ancestral healing. As a certified ancestral healing practitioner, she also works with intergenerational and historical trauma. She offers engaging workshops, webinars, and trainings on a range of trauma-related topics, including PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, and divorce recovery. Dr. Fatter approaches her work with curiosity and humility. Dr. Fatter shares, “I learn something from just about every person I work with, whether they’re a world-renowned instructor or client coming to me for healing and support. I believe my job as a therapist—and mental health advocate—is to reorient the people with whom I work so they can access their innermost wisdom and resilience to move forward in their lives”.
Dr. Daphne Fatter played a critical role in developing our understanding of legacy burdens and intergenerational trauma within the IFS framework, establishing classification systems that honor the complexity of ancestral patterns. Her rigorous approach to practitioner feedback calibration and trauma-informed meditation design ensured our AI tools maintain the highest standards of clinical safety and therapeutic integrity.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Bob Falconer
Author, Consultant and IFS Teacher
Bob Falconer has devoted his career to the treatment of trauma, with an early focus on working with men who experienced severe sexual and physical abuse, informed in part by his own lived experience. During this period, he worked with a range of “parts-based” approaches, including Ego State Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and the work of Pia Mellody, among others. Approximately twenty years ago, Bob discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, which has since become the primary focus of his clinical, teaching, and writing work. He regards IFS as a particularly respectful, compassionate, and effective model for healing. His work is grounded in a deep spiritual orientation and a longstanding personal commitment to recovery and inner exploration. Bob has served on staff for more than twenty official IFS Institute trainings and has completed the highest level of IFS training himself. He has taught extensively, both online and internationally, and has led trainings and classes in Pakistan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and with the Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations. He is the author of five books related to IFS and inner healing: Many Minds, One Self (2017), co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, founder of IFS; The Others Within Us (2023); When Going Through Hell… Keep Going (2024); Opening the Inner World (2025), co-authored with two experts on Emanuel Swedenborg; and Spirit (2025), a compilation drawn from journals of his daily dialogues with Spirit. Bob has also been actively engaged with psychedelic exploration since 1967 and continues to view it as a meaningful pathway for healing and insight. Now at age 77, Bob’s primary focus is on writing, teaching, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of healing, as well as leading supervision groups. He continues to work occasionally with individuals, often in collaboration with their primary therapist.
Bob was the key contributor to our work identifying and handling Unattached Burdens and Guides in IFS therapy sessions.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Bob Falconer
Author, Consultant and IFS Teacher
Bob Falconer has devoted his career to the treatment of trauma, with an early focus on working with men who experienced severe sexual and physical abuse, informed in part by his own lived experience. During this period, he worked with a range of “parts-based” approaches, including Ego State Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and the work of Pia Mellody, among others. Approximately twenty years ago, Bob discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, which has since become the primary focus of his clinical, teaching, and writing work. He regards IFS as a particularly respectful, compassionate, and effective model for healing. His work is grounded in a deep spiritual orientation and a longstanding personal commitment to recovery and inner exploration. Bob has served on staff for more than twenty official IFS Institute trainings and has completed the highest level of IFS training himself. He has taught extensively, both online and internationally, and has led trainings and classes in Pakistan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and with the Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations. He is the author of five books related to IFS and inner healing: Many Minds, One Self (2017), co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, founder of IFS; The Others Within Us (2023); When Going Through Hell… Keep Going (2024); Opening the Inner World (2025), co-authored with two experts on Emanuel Swedenborg; and Spirit (2025), a compilation drawn from journals of his daily dialogues with Spirit. Bob has also been actively engaged with psychedelic exploration since 1967 and continues to view it as a meaningful pathway for healing and insight. Now at age 77, Bob’s primary focus is on writing, teaching, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of healing, as well as leading supervision groups. He continues to work occasionally with individuals, often in collaboration with their primary therapist.
Bob was the key contributor to our work identifying and handling Unattached Burdens and Guides in IFS therapy sessions.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Bob Falconer has devoted his career to the treatment of trauma, with an early focus on working with men who experienced severe sexual and physical abuse, informed in part by his own lived experience. During this period, he worked with a range of “parts-based” approaches, including Ego State Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and the work of Pia Mellody, among others. Approximately twenty years ago, Bob discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, which has since become the primary focus of his clinical, teaching, and writing work. He regards IFS as a particularly respectful, compassionate, and effective model for healing. His work is grounded in a deep spiritual orientation and a longstanding personal commitment to recovery and inner exploration. Bob has served on staff for more than twenty official IFS Institute trainings and has completed the highest level of IFS training himself. He has taught extensively, both online and internationally, and has led trainings and classes in Pakistan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and with the Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations. He is the author of five books related to IFS and inner healing: Many Minds, One Self (2017), co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, founder of IFS; The Others Within Us (2023); When Going Through Hell… Keep Going (2024); Opening the Inner World (2025), co-authored with two experts on Emanuel Swedenborg; and Spirit (2025), a compilation drawn from journals of his daily dialogues with Spirit. Bob has also been actively engaged with psychedelic exploration since 1967 and continues to view it as a meaningful pathway for healing and insight. Now at age 77, Bob’s primary focus is on writing, teaching, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of healing, as well as leading supervision groups. He continues to work occasionally with individuals, often in collaboration with their primary therapist.
Bob was the key contributor to our work identifying and handling Unattached Burdens and Guides in IFS therapy sessions.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Julie Aresco, LICSW
IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Julie Aresco, MA, MSW, LICSW, is a Massachusetts-based Certified IFS therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant in private practice. Since first encountering IFS in 2011, Julie has found the model transformational, deepening her healing and understanding under the mentorship of Senior Lead Trainer Mike Elkin since 2015. She values IFS as a fully integrated practice for everyday life, extending beyond its therapeutic use. Julie began her career as a high school Spanish teacher and later taught as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University School of Social Work, embracing mind’s multiplicity through multi-media and experiential teaching. As a clinician, Julie has served bilingual communities in hospitals, community mental health, urgent care, and college counseling. She co-created Harvard’s therapy dog program, Take a Paws, bringing IFS workshops to students across campus. Today, she bridges her clinical and educational worlds by leading IFS consultation groups, program assisting and designing workshops focused on the healer’s healing. In private practice, she incorporates Canine Assisted Therapy and nature walks. Her interests include trauma, phobia, grief, spirituality in clinical work, and holistic health. Outside of work, she loves outdoor adventures, cooking seasonal meals, and playing with her dogs.
Julie Aresco was instrumental in shaping our approach to trauma-informed AI features, establishing safety protocols for AI-generated images and ensuring appropriate controls for practitioners working with vulnerable populations. Her extensive experience with parts mapping tools and consultation groups informed our design of our own mapping features, practitioner feedback systems, and guided meditation features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Julie Aresco, LICSW
IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Julie Aresco, MA, MSW, LICSW, is a Massachusetts-based Certified IFS therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant in private practice. Since first encountering IFS in 2011, Julie has found the model transformational, deepening her healing and understanding under the mentorship of Senior Lead Trainer Mike Elkin since 2015. She values IFS as a fully integrated practice for everyday life, extending beyond its therapeutic use. Julie began her career as a high school Spanish teacher and later taught as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University School of Social Work, embracing mind’s multiplicity through multi-media and experiential teaching. As a clinician, Julie has served bilingual communities in hospitals, community mental health, urgent care, and college counseling. She co-created Harvard’s therapy dog program, Take a Paws, bringing IFS workshops to students across campus. Today, she bridges her clinical and educational worlds by leading IFS consultation groups, program assisting and designing workshops focused on the healer’s healing. In private practice, she incorporates Canine Assisted Therapy and nature walks. Her interests include trauma, phobia, grief, spirituality in clinical work, and holistic health. Outside of work, she loves outdoor adventures, cooking seasonal meals, and playing with her dogs.
Julie Aresco was instrumental in shaping our approach to trauma-informed AI features, establishing safety protocols for AI-generated images and ensuring appropriate controls for practitioners working with vulnerable populations. Her extensive experience with parts mapping tools and consultation groups informed our design of our own mapping features, practitioner feedback systems, and guided meditation features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Julie Aresco, MA, MSW, LICSW, is a Massachusetts-based Certified IFS therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant in private practice. Since first encountering IFS in 2011, Julie has found the model transformational, deepening her healing and understanding under the mentorship of Senior Lead Trainer Mike Elkin since 2015. She values IFS as a fully integrated practice for everyday life, extending beyond its therapeutic use. Julie began her career as a high school Spanish teacher and later taught as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University School of Social Work, embracing mind’s multiplicity through multi-media and experiential teaching. As a clinician, Julie has served bilingual communities in hospitals, community mental health, urgent care, and college counseling. She co-created Harvard’s therapy dog program, Take a Paws, bringing IFS workshops to students across campus. Today, she bridges her clinical and educational worlds by leading IFS consultation groups, program assisting and designing workshops focused on the healer’s healing. In private practice, she incorporates Canine Assisted Therapy and nature walks. Her interests include trauma, phobia, grief, spirituality in clinical work, and holistic health. Outside of work, she loves outdoor adventures, cooking seasonal meals, and playing with her dogs.
Julie Aresco was instrumental in shaping our approach to trauma-informed AI features, establishing safety protocols for AI-generated images and ensuring appropriate controls for practitioners working with vulnerable populations. Her extensive experience with parts mapping tools and consultation groups informed our design of our own mapping features, practitioner feedback systems, and guided meditation features.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
David Stern, Psy.D
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
I’m a licensed psychologist since 1992, trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, and I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant. I help people connect with their inner vitality and the primordial wisdom in which they and we all are drenched. I help people work with the obstacles, parts and patterns that, in their effort to protect and serve the system, mute, obscure, or warp the very vitality and wisdom they are committed to protect and serve. They too are expressions of that deeper wisdom and vitality. Together we will transform your relationship with these so that their hidden genius, and the buried treasure they carry can become a glorious part of your life and the life of your communities. Increasingly, my work, teaching, and my spiritual practice is informed by ancient and contemporary non-dual contemplatives. As I grow, my healing practice is informed and transformed by said growth. For many years, I co-led a monthly drumming and chanting service at Temple Emanu-El. As part of a larger contemplative prayer sub-community, this service has been going on since 1996 or so.
David has been highly influential at navigating philosophical questions about appropriate roles for AI to hold in personal and spiritual work. He's been an amazing partner in clarifying complex IFS constructs including legacy burdens, unattached burdens, and guides, while helping us understand the nuanced indicators of trust development between parts and Self. His deep knowledge of IFS theory and its spiritual dimensions informed our approach to tracking unburdening processes and creating AI tools that honor the transformative potential of parts work.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
David Stern, Psy.D
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
I’m a licensed psychologist since 1992, trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, and I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant. I help people connect with their inner vitality and the primordial wisdom in which they and we all are drenched. I help people work with the obstacles, parts and patterns that, in their effort to protect and serve the system, mute, obscure, or warp the very vitality and wisdom they are committed to protect and serve. They too are expressions of that deeper wisdom and vitality. Together we will transform your relationship with these so that their hidden genius, and the buried treasure they carry can become a glorious part of your life and the life of your communities. Increasingly, my work, teaching, and my spiritual practice is informed by ancient and contemporary non-dual contemplatives. As I grow, my healing practice is informed and transformed by said growth. For many years, I co-led a monthly drumming and chanting service at Temple Emanu-El. As part of a larger contemplative prayer sub-community, this service has been going on since 1996 or so.
David has been highly influential at navigating philosophical questions about appropriate roles for AI to hold in personal and spiritual work. He's been an amazing partner in clarifying complex IFS constructs including legacy burdens, unattached burdens, and guides, while helping us understand the nuanced indicators of trust development between parts and Self. His deep knowledge of IFS theory and its spiritual dimensions informed our approach to tracking unburdening processes and creating AI tools that honor the transformative potential of parts work.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
I’m a licensed psychologist since 1992, trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, and I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant. I help people connect with their inner vitality and the primordial wisdom in which they and we all are drenched. I help people work with the obstacles, parts and patterns that, in their effort to protect and serve the system, mute, obscure, or warp the very vitality and wisdom they are committed to protect and serve. They too are expressions of that deeper wisdom and vitality. Together we will transform your relationship with these so that their hidden genius, and the buried treasure they carry can become a glorious part of your life and the life of your communities. Increasingly, my work, teaching, and my spiritual practice is informed by ancient and contemporary non-dual contemplatives. As I grow, my healing practice is informed and transformed by said growth. For many years, I co-led a monthly drumming and chanting service at Temple Emanu-El. As part of a larger contemplative prayer sub-community, this service has been going on since 1996 or so.
David has been highly influential at navigating philosophical questions about appropriate roles for AI to hold in personal and spiritual work. He's been an amazing partner in clarifying complex IFS constructs including legacy burdens, unattached burdens, and guides, while helping us understand the nuanced indicators of trust development between parts and Self. His deep knowledge of IFS theory and its spiritual dimensions informed our approach to tracking unburdening processes and creating AI tools that honor the transformative potential of parts work.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Alexia Rothman, Ph.D
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Dr. Alexia Rothman is a clinical psychologist, IFS Institute Lead Trainer, Certified IFS Therapist, and IFSI-approved clinical consultant. A therapist since 1999, she has been deeply involved with IFS since 2010, introducing thousands of therapists and practitioners across the world to the model through her work as an international speaker, trainer, and co-host of the IFS Talks podcast. She has served as an adjunct professor of psychology at Emory University and Agnes Scott College, and she maintains a private therapy and consultation practice in Atlanta, GA, since 2004. She is co-editor of the book, IFS Collected Wisdom: Conversations with Experienced Voices In IFS Therapy.
Daphne provided guidance on legacy burdens and cultural burdens, the unburdening and release process, protector consent before exile access, befriending exiles safely, and understanding how burdens distribute across entire internal systems versus individual parts.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Alexia Rothman, Ph.D
Lead Trainer and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant
Dr. Alexia Rothman is a clinical psychologist, IFS Institute Lead Trainer, Certified IFS Therapist, and IFSI-approved clinical consultant. A therapist since 1999, she has been deeply involved with IFS since 2010, introducing thousands of therapists and practitioners across the world to the model through her work as an international speaker, trainer, and co-host of the IFS Talks podcast. She has served as an adjunct professor of psychology at Emory University and Agnes Scott College, and she maintains a private therapy and consultation practice in Atlanta, GA, since 2004. She is co-editor of the book, IFS Collected Wisdom: Conversations with Experienced Voices In IFS Therapy.
Daphne provided guidance on legacy burdens and cultural burdens, the unburdening and release process, protector consent before exile access, befriending exiles safely, and understanding how burdens distribute across entire internal systems versus individual parts.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Dr. Alexia Rothman is a clinical psychologist, IFS Institute Lead Trainer, Certified IFS Therapist, and IFSI-approved clinical consultant. A therapist since 1999, she has been deeply involved with IFS since 2010, introducing thousands of therapists and practitioners across the world to the model through her work as an international speaker, trainer, and co-host of the IFS Talks podcast. She has served as an adjunct professor of psychology at Emory University and Agnes Scott College, and she maintains a private therapy and consultation practice in Atlanta, GA, since 2004. She is co-editor of the book, IFS Collected Wisdom: Conversations with Experienced Voices In IFS Therapy.
Daphne provided guidance on legacy burdens and cultural burdens, the unburdening and release process, protector consent before exile access, befriending exiles safely, and understanding how burdens distribute across entire internal systems versus individual parts.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Amita Schmidt
IFS Certified Therapist, IFS Training Level 3
Her training includes over 35 years of Vipassana Buddhist practice, including numerous three-month long silent meditation retreats. She was the Resident Teacher for the Insight Meditation Society for six years. Amita is a Spiritual Teacher and a retired IFS therapist. Her work and talks can be found (url's). She is the author of the book, "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master."
Amita Schmidt was instrumental in helping us conceptualize how to measure and track self-energy across sessions, including the development of blendedness indicators based on the 8 Cs framework. Her expertise in Buddhist contemplative traditions and IFS integration informed our approach to developing meditations, recognizing authentic self-presence, and creating meaningful visual representations of client systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Amita Schmidt
IFS Certified Therapist, IFS Training Level 3
Her training includes over 35 years of Vipassana Buddhist practice, including numerous three-month long silent meditation retreats. She was the Resident Teacher for the Insight Meditation Society for six years. Amita is a Spiritual Teacher and a retired IFS therapist. Her work and talks can be found (url's). She is the author of the book, "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master."
Amita Schmidt was instrumental in helping us conceptualize how to measure and track self-energy across sessions, including the development of blendedness indicators based on the 8 Cs framework. Her expertise in Buddhist contemplative traditions and IFS integration informed our approach to developing meditations, recognizing authentic self-presence, and creating meaningful visual representations of client systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Her training includes over 35 years of Vipassana Buddhist practice, including numerous three-month long silent meditation retreats. She was the Resident Teacher for the Insight Meditation Society for six years. Amita is a Spiritual Teacher and a retired IFS therapist. Her work and talks can be found (url's). She is the author of the book, "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master."
Amita Schmidt was instrumental in helping us conceptualize how to measure and track self-energy across sessions, including the development of blendedness indicators based on the 8 Cs framework. Her expertise in Buddhist contemplative traditions and IFS integration informed our approach to developing meditations, recognizing authentic self-presence, and creating meaningful visual representations of client systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Sarah Thurman
IFS-Informed Therapist (Certified through IFS Canada)
She works with individuals seeking greater self-understanding, healing from trauma, and meaningful, lasting change. Sarah’s primary orientation is Internal Family Systems therapy, which guides her work in helping clients relate differently to their inner experiences, strengthen self-leadership, and move toward greater balance and integration. She integrates EMDR and psychedelic-assisted approaches when clinically appropriate and within a careful, client-centered framework. She is attentive to the ways spirituality, personal belief systems, and existential questions may shape the healing process, approaching these dimensions with respect for each individual’s background and worldview. Sarah’s clinical style is playful, creative, and grounded in deep respect and compassion.
Sarah was instrumental in developing annotation standards for complex trauma cases and establishing expert consensus protocols for AI training, drawing from her specialized experience in trauma-focused IFS practice. Her insights into EMDR integration, dissociation management, and the unique challenges of working with trauma populations shaped our approach to creating safe, clinically appropriate AI feedback systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Sarah Thurman
IFS-Informed Therapist (Certified through IFS Canada)
She works with individuals seeking greater self-understanding, healing from trauma, and meaningful, lasting change. Sarah’s primary orientation is Internal Family Systems therapy, which guides her work in helping clients relate differently to their inner experiences, strengthen self-leadership, and move toward greater balance and integration. She integrates EMDR and psychedelic-assisted approaches when clinically appropriate and within a careful, client-centered framework. She is attentive to the ways spirituality, personal belief systems, and existential questions may shape the healing process, approaching these dimensions with respect for each individual’s background and worldview. Sarah’s clinical style is playful, creative, and grounded in deep respect and compassion.
Sarah was instrumental in developing annotation standards for complex trauma cases and establishing expert consensus protocols for AI training, drawing from her specialized experience in trauma-focused IFS practice. Her insights into EMDR integration, dissociation management, and the unique challenges of working with trauma populations shaped our approach to creating safe, clinically appropriate AI feedback systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
She works with individuals seeking greater self-understanding, healing from trauma, and meaningful, lasting change. Sarah’s primary orientation is Internal Family Systems therapy, which guides her work in helping clients relate differently to their inner experiences, strengthen self-leadership, and move toward greater balance and integration. She integrates EMDR and psychedelic-assisted approaches when clinically appropriate and within a careful, client-centered framework. She is attentive to the ways spirituality, personal belief systems, and existential questions may shape the healing process, approaching these dimensions with respect for each individual’s background and worldview. Sarah’s clinical style is playful, creative, and grounded in deep respect and compassion.
Sarah was instrumental in developing annotation standards for complex trauma cases and establishing expert consensus protocols for AI training, drawing from her specialized experience in trauma-focused IFS practice. Her insights into EMDR integration, dissociation management, and the unique challenges of working with trauma populations shaped our approach to creating safe, clinically appropriate AI feedback systems.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Abigail Crispin, MA, LPCC
Level 2 IFS Therapist, LPCC
Abigail Crispin is a Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR therapist who works with couples and individuals across the lifespan. Her clinical approach is grounded in IFS and informed by trauma-focused and relational frameworks. She draws from person-centered, existential, Hakomi, and polyvagal-informed approaches to support experiential and depth-oriented work. Abigail specializes in working with anxiety, trauma, and attachment-related concerns. Her work helps clients make sense of longstanding patterns, reduce internal conflict, and develop a more compassionate and grounded relationship with themselves and others.
Abigail was instrumental in developing our part identification framework, establishing annotation protocols for training our AI models to recognize distinct parts, their presence levels, and relationship dynamics. Her hands-on testing and iterative feedback on practitioner-facing features helped ensure our tool accurately captures the nuances of IFS sessions while maintaining clinical utility.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Abigail Crispin, MA, LPCC
Level 2 IFS Therapist, LPCC
Abigail Crispin is a Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR therapist who works with couples and individuals across the lifespan. Her clinical approach is grounded in IFS and informed by trauma-focused and relational frameworks. She draws from person-centered, existential, Hakomi, and polyvagal-informed approaches to support experiential and depth-oriented work. Abigail specializes in working with anxiety, trauma, and attachment-related concerns. Her work helps clients make sense of longstanding patterns, reduce internal conflict, and develop a more compassionate and grounded relationship with themselves and others.
Abigail was instrumental in developing our part identification framework, establishing annotation protocols for training our AI models to recognize distinct parts, their presence levels, and relationship dynamics. Her hands-on testing and iterative feedback on practitioner-facing features helped ensure our tool accurately captures the nuances of IFS sessions while maintaining clinical utility.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Abigail Crispin is a Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR therapist who works with couples and individuals across the lifespan. Her clinical approach is grounded in IFS and informed by trauma-focused and relational frameworks. She draws from person-centered, existential, Hakomi, and polyvagal-informed approaches to support experiential and depth-oriented work. Abigail specializes in working with anxiety, trauma, and attachment-related concerns. Her work helps clients make sense of longstanding patterns, reduce internal conflict, and develop a more compassionate and grounded relationship with themselves and others.
Abigail was instrumental in developing our part identification framework, establishing annotation protocols for training our AI models to recognize distinct parts, their presence levels, and relationship dynamics. Her hands-on testing and iterative feedback on practitioner-facing features helped ensure our tool accurately captures the nuances of IFS sessions while maintaining clinical utility.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Anita Amini
IFS Informed Practitioner (IFSCA)
I have been offering 1:1 somatic IFS sessions professionally since Spring 2023. I am an IFS-informed practitioner trained by IFSCA, and I am currently enrolled in their follow-up training, Stepping Deeper.My sessions blend somatic parts work with emotional fluidity, an approach shaped by my training with The Art of Accomplishment, where I've completed several courses since 2020, including two year-long programs. I am passionate about helping clients fall in love with their emotions and supporting them in bringing their parts back home. Previously, I was a software engineer.
Anita was a lead contributor in establishing part-stage labeling standards and creating ground truth documents essential for training our AI models to accurately classify therapeutic progress. Her dual perspective as both a practicing IFS therapist and engaged product tester provided invaluable insights into protector-exile dynamics, session summarization needs, and the practical requirements of practitioner workflows.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Anita Amini
IFS Informed Practitioner (IFSCA)
I have been offering 1:1 somatic IFS sessions professionally since Spring 2023. I am an IFS-informed practitioner trained by IFSCA, and I am currently enrolled in their follow-up training, Stepping Deeper.My sessions blend somatic parts work with emotional fluidity, an approach shaped by my training with The Art of Accomplishment, where I've completed several courses since 2020, including two year-long programs. I am passionate about helping clients fall in love with their emotions and supporting them in bringing their parts back home. Previously, I was a software engineer.
Anita was a lead contributor in establishing part-stage labeling standards and creating ground truth documents essential for training our AI models to accurately classify therapeutic progress. Her dual perspective as both a practicing IFS therapist and engaged product tester provided invaluable insights into protector-exile dynamics, session summarization needs, and the practical requirements of practitioner workflows.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
I have been offering 1:1 somatic IFS sessions professionally since Spring 2023. I am an IFS-informed practitioner trained by IFSCA, and I am currently enrolled in their follow-up training, Stepping Deeper.My sessions blend somatic parts work with emotional fluidity, an approach shaped by my training with The Art of Accomplishment, where I've completed several courses since 2020, including two year-long programs. I am passionate about helping clients fall in love with their emotions and supporting them in bringing their parts back home. Previously, I was a software engineer.
Anita was a lead contributor in establishing part-stage labeling standards and creating ground truth documents essential for training our AI models to accurately classify therapeutic progress. Her dual perspective as both a practicing IFS therapist and engaged product tester provided invaluable insights into protector-exile dynamics, session summarization needs, and the practical requirements of practitioner workflows.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Trevor Sasek, MS, LPC
Level 1 IFS Therapist
Trevor is a Level 1 IFS therapist who has completed years of clinical practice and has received supervision with master IFS clinicians since 2022, waiting for the opportunity to be accepted into a Level 2 training. He also utilizes IFS with other body-based techniques enabling more access to Self through the nervous system.
Trevor Sasek was instrumental in developing our thematic tracking framework, helping us understand how to identify and map cross-session themes, life-areas, and core-wounds that serve as organizing concepts in therapy. His experience with complex trauma and athlete populations provided valuable perspective on adapting our tools for diverse client needs.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Trevor Sasek, MS, LPC
Level 1 IFS Therapist
Trevor is a Level 1 IFS therapist who has completed years of clinical practice and has received supervision with master IFS clinicians since 2022, waiting for the opportunity to be accepted into a Level 2 training. He also utilizes IFS with other body-based techniques enabling more access to Self through the nervous system.
Trevor Sasek was instrumental in developing our thematic tracking framework, helping us understand how to identify and map cross-session themes, life-areas, and core-wounds that serve as organizing concepts in therapy. His experience with complex trauma and athlete populations provided valuable perspective on adapting our tools for diverse client needs.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
Trevor is a Level 1 IFS therapist who has completed years of clinical practice and has received supervision with master IFS clinicians since 2022, waiting for the opportunity to be accepted into a Level 2 training. He also utilizes IFS with other body-based techniques enabling more access to Self through the nervous system.
Trevor Sasek was instrumental in developing our thematic tracking framework, helping us understand how to identify and map cross-session themes, life-areas, and core-wounds that serve as organizing concepts in therapy. His experience with complex trauma and athlete populations provided valuable perspective on adapting our tools for diverse client needs.
Adam T.
Senior Director, Evolve Labs
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