Healthier Relationships: The Unconscious Things that Get in Our Way

• Exploring and releasing the personal burdens related to traumatic experiences in your life
• Strategies that can help you see and overcome self-defeating behaviors
• Understanding your "self" and your "parts" and how they direct, and sometimes control, your life
• The beliefs and emotions that you may have absorbed from family, your peers, and your past
• How trauma from your life may be serving as an inner critic that holds you back

Dr. Richard Schwartz attended Purdue University, where he received a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy. He began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic.  

Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is a non-pathologizing technique that is based on compassion, trust, honesty, and encouragement. IFS invites clients to acknowledge each unique part of themselves and to recognize the strengths and weaknesses within them and how they influence behaviors and emotions.

Dr. Schwartz is the author of numerous books including Internal Family Systems Therapy (with Martha Sweezy), You are the One You’ve Been Waiting For, and No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (with Alanis Morissette). His website is ifs-institute.com.