About Us
Our Story: Why IFS Healers?
Mission & Vision
Detailed explanation of “Learn. Practice. Heal.” and “Walk the IFS Talk.”
Meet the Team
David Stern
My name is David Stern, I’m a licensed psychologist since 1992, trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, and I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant.
I have been teaching this model for the last 10 years.
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WHAT I DO
I help people connect with their inner vitality and the primordial wisdom in which they and we all are drenched.
I help people work with the obstacles, parts and patterns that, in their effort to protect and serve the system, mute, obscure, or warp the very vitality and wisdom they are committed to protect and serve. They too are expressions of that deeper wisdom and vitality. Together we will transform your relationship with these so that their hidden genius, and the buried treasure they carry can become a glorious part of your life and the life of your communities.
Increasingly, my work, teaching, and my spiritual practice is informed by ancient and contemporary non-dual contemplatives. As I grow, my healing practice is informed and transformed by said growth.
WHO I AM
My undergraduate studies included a focus on music, and an obsessive exploration of philosophy and mystical theology.
After a number of years playing music in various bands throughout the great northwest, I returned to graduate school and got my doctorate at the Massachusettes School of Professional Studies (now, William James College).
I’m a licensed psychologist since 1992, trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, and I am a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) consultant.
I am also a husband since 1988, and a father of two wonderful and wonder-filled children. I play the saxophone and clarinet and sing.
For many years, I co-led a monthly drumming and chanting service at Temple Emanu-El. As part of a larger contemplative prayer sub-community, this service has been going on since 1996 or so.
My office is in Providence Rhode Island where I have a busy psychotherapy/consultation/teaching/healing practice.
Toni Rosati
I’m Toni Rosen Rosati, co-founder of IFS Healers.
I’m an Allied Mental Health Professional and NBHWC credentialed coach. I’m a Level 3 trained IFS Practitioner who’s been dedicated to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model since 2021.
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I earned my Masters degree in my 30s when I decided to close my photography business and make the “ridiculous” career change to climate data scientist.
As an intersectional scientist, I’ve never fully fit into an existing box. But psychology, perception, and how we make decisions have always been important to me. Once I learned about my AuDHD (in my 40s!), the world made a lot more sense!
A bit more about me:
I am based in the Denver/Boulder area and use IFS as my main modality. I have completed Level 2 with Ann Sinko and Mike Elkin, Level 2 Deepening training with Stephanie Mitchell, and Level 3 with Pam Krause. I’ve had the honor of being a PA at the Institute for Level 1 and Level 2 six times. I ADORE teaching, mentoring, and coaching.
My identities include being raised female, Adult Child of an Alcoholic, child of an adoptee, and grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor. I am happily child-free with a wonderful partner, two dogs, and two cats.
Some of my identities are: tomboy, nerd, gardener, wig maker, and watercolorist.
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 40s – which explains my career changes! I’ve been a professional photographer, climate and society scientist, data curator, and UX researcher. In my private practice I focus on confidence, creativity, and living congruently.
Stephanie Mitchell
My name is Stephanie Mitchell and I’m a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist working in private practice in Australia
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Stephanie is a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist. She is interested in how healing and change occur in the human-to-human relationship, within spaces of safety and acceptance and outside the constructs of diagnostic labels.
Stephanie has worked in mental health services for the past 15 years, beginning her life as a therapist working with clients diagnosed with “BPD” or “Schizophrenia”.
Stephanie has co-facilitated Hearing Voices groups, trauma therapy groups and trained therapists across the world on working with psychosis.
Stephanie is currently undertaking research on IFS and psychosis with the University of California, San Francisco and Flinders University.
Stephanie has worked with many of the leading people in the psychiatric survivor’s movement including members of ISPS, A Disorder for Everyone, Drop the Disorder, and Mad in America.
Stephanie is well position to offer this training because of her own deep healing with IFS.
Having a tenacious system of parts who have been dedicated to ‘full healing’ of her extensive early developmental, trauma, neglect and abuse, she has undertaken over 700 hours of her own IFS work with a senior IFS Practitioner.
Stephanies embodies the grounded energy that is possible when our parts allow us to go to their core wounding and unburden.
In this course Stephanie briefly shares her own experiences of transference enactment, unbearable times of feeling “crazy”, and how she made it out the other side to a Self-led life that is deeply connected to her parts.
This course is enriched by significant academic rigor and the student is invited to take both a deep dive into the research and then allow that to stay on the side of their therapeutic work as they move to a right-brained connection to their clients.
Our Philosophy:
Deeper dive into the “sacred sandbox” and “community of practice” concepts.
What Makes Us Different
Reiterate USPs in more detail (vetted teachers, rare Level 2, anti-social media community).
Are you an SME?
To offer your courses, workshops, or consultation groups within the IFS Healers community – contact us.
We are always looking to grow and colloborate