ABSTRACT
A UK psychotherapist relates her journey integrating Internal Family Systems therapy into her supervision practice, embracing ever more deeply the model’s relevance to supervision (not just to therapy and everyday living). Detailing clinical experiences, she shows her focus expanding and deepening to include the internal systems of therapist and supervisor as well as the client, attending to the presence and impact of Self-energy and parts. She describes teaching the IFS model through the process of supervision as well as the content. Her way of working evolved and emerged into a framework for IFS supervision that she and a colleague, Emma Redfern, call “The Fs and Ps of IFS supervision.” Suitable for supervisors wishing to integrate and practice with an IFS lens, including when supervising therapists who are not IFS-informed, the framework features freeing up therapist presence (Self-energy), attending to where the work is stuck, fostering fluency in the therapeutic process, being creative and playful, and having a systemic perspective.
