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.