Richard Schwartz (Dr.)

Faculty

About

Dr. Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief. Patients described being plagued by "parts"—inner networks resembling families. As they separated from their parts, they shifted into a state of curiosity, calm, confidence, and compassion he called the Self. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s. Schwartz now lives in Brookline, MA, and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry.

Courses by Richard Schwartz (Dr.)

Healing Trauma with IFS featuring Dr. Richard Schwartz

A foundational course on Internal Family Systems with Dr. Richard Schwartz. Discover the core principle that there are no bad parts — and that healing flows from Self-leadership, curiosity, and compassion.

How to Work with Resistant Clients

A course on working with resistant clients through a somatic lens. Tools to recognize resistance as protective, build trust, and create the conditions for engagement, safety, and healing.

Integrating IFS, Somatics and Spirituality

Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair

A course on somatic inner child work. Recognize wounded child parts, understand their protective roles, and apply body-based interventions to heal childhood wounds held in the nervous system.

Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator Certificate

A pathway to becoming a seasoned somatic psychedelic facilitator. Combine the healing power of somatics with the profound insights of psychedelics and plant medicines to release trauma at its root and guide clients into the primal body, where true liberation lives.

Summit: Somatic Trauma Healing

A two-day on-demand summit on somatic trauma healing with 17 world-leading experts. Explore body-based tools for working with triggers, preverbal trauma, attachment wounds, nervous system regulation, healthy aggression, parts work, and collective trauma — plus bonus sessions with Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Richard Schwartz, Arielle Schwartz, and Thomas Hübl.

Transforming Trauma through Parts Work

A six-module course integrating Internal Family Systems with somatic approaches. Demonstration sessions on working with internal "parts" — anger, anxiety, perfectionism, fear, and chronic pain — to cultivate Self-led wholeness and healing.

Treating Intergenerational Trauma with IFS and Somatic Experiencing

Unlocking the Self — IFS Approaches to Healing The Inner Child, Triggers & Addiction

A course on Dr. Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems model. Understand the mind as naturally multiple — and inner conflict, triggers, and addiction as protective strategies rooted in the journey home to Self.