Ep 18 - IFS-Informed EMDR

The Therapy Explained Podcast

Hello, welcome back to the Therapy Explained podcast. This week I am speaking with Bruce Hersey, an Internal Family Systems-Informed EMDR consultant. I am excited to share this episode as we talk about the two forms of therapy that interest me the most, Internal Family Systems, also known as IFS, and EMDR. Both therapies are trauma-informed, meaning they consider a person's current problem to have its roots in early life events, commonly childhood. They also share the idea that we have 'parts' of us that are traumatised, and should we help heal these parts, we can notice a significant shift in how we feel and act in the present.

There is a lot of information on IFS and EMDR, but not much about where and how the two intertwine and enhance each other, so I was delighted to speak to Bruce about this. This episode is probably one of the more technical or jargony, so if you haven't heard about IFS or EMDR before, it might be worth checking out episodes two and four, where each is covered in much more detail.