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Frances D. Booth LICSW is a Certified IFS Therapist, Trainer and Consultant. She’s been a clinician for over 40 years, specializes in complex trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, and binge eating.

Fran enjoys teaching IFS as a comprehensive integrative paradigm that encompasses her earlier explorations in various paths to heal the human heart and psyche: psychodynamic, ego states, mindfulness, attachment and body-based modalities.

Fran has held adjunct faculty positions at Tufts University School of Medicine, Smith College, and the University of New Hampshire.

Her mindfulness training is with the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA. Her Mind/Body training was with the Herbert Benson Mind Body Center, Boston, MA.

She was a founding member of The Healing Garden, a complementary care cancer center.

She loves to play, wear hats, laugh, sing, dance, dine and wine, read, explore new lands, bike, sail, swim, attend theater and be silly with grandchildren.

Cece Sykes, LCSW is an IFS Senior Trainer, author and consultant with over forty years of clinical experience specializing in recovery from trauma and addiction.

One of the founding trainers in the IFS Institute, Cece has educated therapists around the world on the IFS model and on her approach to treating addictive processes. Her original chapter on addiction appears in Innovations & Elaborations (2016) and her recent book IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma Informed Compassion-Based Interventions for Substances, Eating, Gambling and More with Martha Sweezy and Richard Schwartz was released in 2023.

Cece also developed the Heart Lessons of the Journey retreat for an on-going international study of therapist personal narratives. She regularly lectures on these and related subjects and lives in her lifelong home of Chicago.

Michael Elkin, LMFT is a IFS Senior Lead Trainer who has been teaching the model since 1997.
He has over 45 years of clinical experience, and his early career was focused on treating mandated clients in drug and alcohol treatment agencies where he got extensive experience working with chronic addiction and violent and sexual perpetrators. In order to learn to be effective with these challenges, he got training in family, strategic and hypnotic therapies.

He is an author of the book: Families Under the Influence.

Mike has been married for 54 years; 30 years in his practice marriage which produced 2 sons, and his 24 year marriage to storyteller, Judith Black. This has contributed to his deep interest in intimacy and relationships. He has been nationally ranked as a billiard player.

Kay Gardner, LCPC, IFS Lead trainer has over 45 years of clinical experience and 35 years in private practice. She is a senior Lead Trainer for Internal Family Systems (IFS) and has been in leadership since the beginning of the approach, in the early 90’s. She also came to IFS as an experienced therapist and a teacher of Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy and as a result, helped to integrate the body into the IFS practice.

In earlier work, Kay was the founder of The Women’s Circle, a women’s program in Chicago, and has also led various successful workshops around the country for men and women, including Persephone’s Journey; Men and Their Mothers; Women and Their Fathers; as well as Sacred Theatre for Couples, which brought her body-centered theatre approach to work with couples in groups or individually.

In her most recent work, presented nationally and internationally, Kay was the first to bring the notion of Legacy Burdens to IFS and has co-developed a unique program that integrates work with energy, chakras, and developmental stages, called a Possibility of awakening. Kay brings a body-centered and spiritual approach to all her work.

She is a warm, gifted, and heartfelt presenter who consistently garners rave reviews from her audiences.

Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA, USA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders and provides trainings and consultation.

In addition to her book, “Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems,” she has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, on 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.

Fatimah Finney, MA, LMHC is a serial goal-setter, lover of new ideas, and imaginative thinker. She is a skilled certified L3 trained IFS therapist and lead trainer at the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute. She is also the associate director of IFS Programs and a Senior Instructor at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School(HMS) teaching hospital.

She is a highly sought after speaker and thought leader who’s been featured on podcasts, including IFS Talks, where she discusses the intersection between IFS and Intercultural Competence. Her chapter on using IFS with Black Clients is published in the book Altogether US. Fatimah is a firm believer in the power of collective healing through community care and seeks to eradicate the systems of oppression that block the possibility of it.

Fatimah is an effective Intercultural competence consultant who have helped people around the world build their capacity and skills in centering diversity, equity, inclusion. As a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Fatimah uses this tool to help her clients gain insight into their strengths and growth edges for navigating differences and to offer strategies for better cross-cultural interactions.

Rina Dubin, Ed.D, LPC, is a certified IFS therapist and IFS trainer in private practice in Newton, MA.

Her involvement with the IFS community began in 2004, and loves being part of the healing process which has allowed IFS to become a centerpiece in her work.

She has been affiliated with Internal Family Systems of New England (IFSNE) since its beginning in 2009 (until 2018), and as a member of the steering committee, she has been thrilled with the accelerating growth of IFS in the greater New England area.

Rina has a broad background in trauma, and offers supervision and consultation.

Jenna Riemersma is a #1 best-selling IFS author, speaker, and clinical director. She is a Certified Level 3 IFS therapist, IFS Approved Clinical Consultant, and the developer of the Move Toward® shorthand tool for the IFS model. Jenna was personally trained by Dr. Richard Schwartz, and specializes in IFS integration with topics such as addiction, spirituality, sexuality, and EMDR.

Jenna has been a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CSAT-S) and Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CMAT-S) for over a decade and is teaching faculty for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). She is also trained in EMDR, experiential therapy and psychodrama.

Jenna is the author of Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation through Internal Family Systems therapy, and editor and co-author of Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS model with key modalities, communities and trends. Take advantage of Jenna’s free IFS meditations, videos and courses on Insight Timer, the IFS app Sentur, and her website www.MoveToward.com.

Mariel Pastor, MA, LMFT, is an international IFS Senior Lead Trainer and consultant known for her clarity, warmth and humor. Trained in IFS since 1998, she is the principal author of the IFS Institute’s Level 1 Participant Training Manual, and leads L1, L2, and L3 trainings and retreats.

Mariel is Co-founder of the IFS Telehealth Collective, a multi-state group practice of IFS-trained clinicians and IFS consultation services.  A systemic marriage and family therapist based in Portland, Oregon, she has a special interest in Integral Psychology and incorporates somatic psychotherapies, EMDR, and spirituality within the framework of IFS. Her original work, the Unburdened Internal System mandala, brings the fullness of the IFS model into tangible form, offering hope for clinicians and clients alike.

Mariel brings her passion for IFS into her work with actors, writers, and directors through Character Mapping–a groundbreaking, customized coaching and online program supporting storytellers to maximize their relationships with their characters, their craft, and their Selves. More information can be found at marielpastor.com.

Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, LCSW-R is a bilingual clinical social worker. She’s a Certified IFS Therapist and Assistant Trainer. She is also a member of the IFSI DEI committee. She was born in Venezuela and identifies as an Afro-Latina.

She is excited about sharing with others the transformative healing she has found in IFS, a powerful and compassionate tool to heal from cultural and legacy burdens including racism, colorism, and classism. She is committed to bringing IFS to different regions of the world, including Latin America, and bringing the voice of the global majority to the model.

In addition to IFS, her clinical experience as a Level 2 trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapist facilitates her integration and the use of the body as a source of resilience and healing.

With 25 years of clinical experience, Rosa’s private practice provides a safe place to heal, including the areas of gender-based violence, race, religion, and sexual orientation-related trauma. In addition to direct practice, Rosa offers supervision and consultation to therapists and practitioners learning the model and provides workshops to community and government agencies and NGOs on migration trauma.

Rosa is a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she teaches several advanced clinical and practical courses, including a course on trauma-informed treatment for asylum seekers and immigrants.

Paul Neustadt, MSS, LICSW, is a senior IFS Co-Lead Trainer. He also co-leads a monthly seminar for IFS Level 1 training graduates focused on integrating the skills learned in the Level 1 training.

He has led workshops on Self Led Parenting, the Therapeutic Relationship in IFS, Direct Access: An Essential Skill of IFS, IFS and Climate Change, and The Gifts of Our Exiles.

For 17 years Paul was director of a community counselling and prevention program for children, adolescents, and their families. Paul has also worked in a college counselling centre and community mental health centre, and taught couples and family therapy in a family therapy institute and two graduate programs.

In his private practice, Paul now specializes in IFS consultation, both group and individual.

Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, and clinical IFS consultant.

She is the author of the chapter: “Ancestral lineage healing: Restoring Belonging and Reconnection with Ancestral Wisdom and Collective Self-Energy” in “Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends.”

Dr. Fatter provides engaging continuing education to mental health providers on nuances of trauma treatment from her seasoned clinical experience treating PTSD and complex trauma.

She integrates an intergenerational and transpersonal lens with IFS in her guidance of IFS-informed ancestral healing groups, consultation groups, and IFS-based psychotherapy for adults.

In her personal life, Daphne is a proud and active mother of three children who happen to come into this life at the same time as triplets! Her favorite quote is by Rumi: “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop.”