Paul Neustadt
Paul sees himself as a spiritual being in a human body, on a healing journey, in this life to learn lessons, to connect with his soul, and to live in accordance with his life purpose. Part of his life purpose has been to share the gift of IFS with others, all the transformations that become possible when we recognize the truths that IFS reveals to us. Paul is married to the love of his life and has two grown children from whom he has learned a great deal. He is an IFS senior co-lead trainer, taught a monthly seminar for level 1 graduates for over 20 years, and currently provides IFS consultation for individuals and groups. He has given workshops on The Therapeutic Relationship and the Power of Presence in IFS; Befriending and Valuing Self-Like Parts; The Gifts of Our Exiles: Reconnecting with Our True Self; Direct Access and the Gifts of Protectors; Self-Led Parenting; and a number of other topics. He has written a chapter called “From Reactive to Self-Led Parenting” in a book edited by Martha Sweezy and Ellen Ziskind.
Paul is a clinical social worker who has worked in community mental health and the counseling program of a working class state university, and he has been the director of a community-based counseling and prevention program.
Bob Falconer
For the early decades of his career, Robert Falconer (Bob) focused on work with men who had histories of major sexual and physical abuse as he had. He used various forms of parts work (Ego State Therapy, Gestalt, and Pia Mellody’s work among others), but some 15 years ago he discovered Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and is now focused exclusively on IFS, which he finds to be the most respectful and powerful modality. His own recovery is the deep basis for all his work.
Bob has taught IFS extensively and internationally online and has led classes and trainings in Pakistan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Canada, the UK, and for the Fort Belknap reservation. He has also been on the staff of over 20 of the official IFS institute trainings. Bob has been actively involved with psychedelics since 1967 and continues to view them as a powerful pathway.
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. His early memoir, Self Unbroken: The Foundations of Bob’s Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse will be published in 2026.
Now at in his late seventies, Bob mostly teaches and leads supervision classes, only occasionally seeing individuals, often with their therapist.
Patricia Rich
Patricia Rich, LCSW, CST-S (she/her) is an IFS Institute Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist and Approved Clinical Consultant and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor. She has developed a unique integrative model for Self-Led Sexuality to help people find more ease, joy, and confidence in the bedroom and beyond. She has originated IFS-informed concepts such as Internal Consent and The Six S’s of Sexual Self-Energy. Patty has presented at the IFS Annual Conference, taught a module for the IFS Institute Online Continuity program, led workshops internationally, and authored a chapter in IFS Integration: A Comprehensive Guide to Applying Internal Family Systems Across Modalities, Populations, and Clinical Presentations. She offers training and consultation to professionals and loves helping people to BeHold and Lead their Internal Sexual Systems (BLISS)™. She hosts “Self-Led in Bed: An IFS & Sexuality Podcast” and lives in the Philadelphia area where she also has a private practice. You can get her free guide to The Six S’s and learn more about her offerings at www.patriciarich.com or follow her on Instagram @patriciarichconsulting.
Sue Richmond
Sue is an IFS Lead Trainer, Approved Clinical Consultant, Certified IFS Therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Connecticut, USA. She has been practicing individual and group psychotherapy since 1997. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Keene State College and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut, with a specialization in social group work and casework. She has experience working as a therapist in private practice, community based outpatient behavioral health clinic, partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, and as a crisis clinician doing psychiatric consultations and medical consult liasion within a hospital setting before going into private practice full time. In addition to working with the general population, she has worked with veterans and their families, people living with a wide range of internal and external constraints and challenges to include depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and a variety of stress-related disorders resulting from difficult life transitions, and chronic medical conditions.
Sue has also brought her social work and teaching skills into the classroom setting as an adjunct faculty member of the Social Work Department at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, as well as teaching psychiatry residents, nursing students, social work interns, and psychology and chaplain interns about individual and group psychotherapy at a large teaching hospital in CT..
Mariel Pastor
Mariel Pastor was an early adopter of IFS– a psychotherapist trained in the model since 1998 and international senior IFS Lead Trainer. She is the principal author of the official IFS Training Manual, and Co-founder of the IFS Consultation Collective. In addition to developing the Unburdened System, Mariel brings the model to her work with actors, writers, and directors through Character Mapping — an innovative coaching and online masterclass series supporting storytellers in their relationships to characters, craft, and their Selves. More information can be found at charactermapping.com
Stephanie Mitchell
Stephanie is a Level 3 Certified IFS Therapist living in Costa Rica. She specialises in working with clients who have experienced early developmental abuse or neglect, especially those who have experiences with a disorganised parent.
Stephanie is specifically interested in how the therapeutic relationship can be used to offer a container for protectors to test out if relationships can truly be safe. In her classes she teaches highly nuanced ways of being ‘in the relational space’ and working with the client’s transference, to allow parts to feel fully welcomed and honoured so they begin to relax and know there is a Self in their own system also.
Stephanie has extensive experience in working with clients who interface with mental health services and is currently undertaking research on IFS for psychosis, through the University of California San Francisco, with co-investigator Professor Ian Whitmarsh.
IFS Demoz with Tamala Floyd
Tamala Floyd, LCSW
is a psychotherapist, author, consultant, and retreat facilitator with over 25 years of experience. She received a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California and an undergraduate degree in psychology from California State University–Long Beach. She has taught at the University of Phoenix and the University of Southern California in human services and social work.
Tamala has worked in various settings, including schools, criminal justice, hospitals, mental health agencies, and private practice. She has expertise in childhood sexual abuse, women’s sexual trauma, and domestic violence. Her work focuses on women’s trauma, mothering, and relationship issues, helping women identify and heal emotional wounds that impede their success and coaching them in achieving fulfilling life goals. Her new book, Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom, focuses on healing personal and generational trauma with the support of ancestors.
Tamala has been married to her husband for over 25 years. They are digital nomads traveling internationally since June 2022. They have five adult children between them, three of whom are adopted.
For more information about Tamala, check out her website at https://tamalafloyd.com/
IFS Demoz with Cece Sykes
Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW
has over forty years of clinical experience with trauma and addiction recovery. A founding trainer with the IFS Institute, Cece has educated therapists around the world on IFS and her approach to treating addictive processes. She co-authored IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More (2023) and other IFS articles and chapters. Cece originated her international Heart Lessons of the Journey retreats for therapists to openly explore their personal narratives. Cece lives with her husband in her lifelong home of Chicago, close to family, friends and grandchildren.
IFS Demoz with Paul Ginter
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.
IFS Demoz with Joanne Twombly
Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders, providing trainings and consultation.
She has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with perpetrator introjects. Her commitment to helping her clients heal and to providing quality training has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.
She is a past president of the New England Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. In recognition of her achievements and her service on committees and the Board of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) she was honored with ISSTD's Distinguished Achievement Award and is an ISSTD Fellow.
IFS Demoz with Jory Agate
Jory Agate, LMHC, MDiv., MA, IFS Certified, is an Internal Family Systems therapist, trainer, and consultant with a private practice in Cambridge, MA. Jory is committed to creating a collaborative clinical space that honors the cultural uniqueness of her clients. She specializes in treating trauma without pathologizing individuals for the creative ways they may have learned to cope. Jory had previous careers as a Unitarian Universalist minister and Sign Language interpreter/Deaf educator in the US and abroad. She works in English and ASL with hearing and Deaf individuals, families, couples, clergy, staff teams, and parents of individuals with major mental illness. Jory is a trainer/presenter for the IFS Institute, PESI, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). In addition to her private practice, she provides training and consultation in IFS therapy, cultural agility, sexuality education, leadership development, and group dynamics. The mother of two young adults, one hearing and one Deaf, she lives with her wife and their pandemic puppy in Cambridge, MA.
IFS Demoz with Margaret Conley, LCSW, MDiv (She/They/ We)
Bestselling Author | Executive Director | Trauma Therapist | Faith-Based Mental Health Leader
Margaret L. Conley, LCSW, MDiv, is a highly respected clinician, educator, and thought leader in the fields of trauma therapy, clinical social work, and faith-based mental health. As the Executive Director of MLC Consulting, LLC and President of Mending Life Concepts Empowerment Group, Inc., Margaret provides innovative, evidence-based mental health services; as trailblazer in faith-based trauma work, Margaret developed an evidence-based, clinically aligned theological method designed for clergy, academics, and mental health professionals.Her work continues to shape conversations around mental health, trauma, and faith, inspiring people to heal, grow, and thrive.
