Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

IFS therapy is talk therapy based on a theory that everyone’s personality contains multiple “parts,” or sub-personalities, that need space to speak, grieve, and heal. It may help conditions like PTSD.

Note: This is Part Two in a series on Internal Family Systems ("Parts") Therapy. Click here to read Part One . In my work with trauma survivors, especially developmental trauma—physical and emotional ...

Co-authored with Alexandra Comeau, Zev Schuman-Olivier, Lawrence G. Rosenberg, Hanna Soumerai Rea, and Mary Catherine Ward. Research suggests that the complex trauma and/or other psychiatric ...