Where inner work meets community.
IFS Healers was born from a simple truth: transformational work isn’t meant to happen alone. What began as a small circle, tired of Zoom fatigue and craving real connection, grew into a living community of coaches, therapists, and guides — united not by profession, but by practice.
OUR STORY
A space thatfelt real.
Post-COVID, in a world of Zoom fatigue, polarization, and endless online noise, we wanted something different. a space that prioritized connection, humility, and embodied healing. IFS Healers began as a small circle of practitioners committed not just to learning the IFS model, but living it. That circle grew. And kept growing. Today, we are a living, evolving community of coaches, therapists, nurses, spiritual guides, artists, and more, united not by profession, but by practice.
OUR ROOTS
Toni & David.
Co-founders and longtime practitioners, facilitators, and
teachers in the IFS world. They created this space not as
an extension of a training program, but as a community
laboratory , a place to try things, learn from mistakes,
co-create rituals, and build sustainable healing culture.
They brought clarity of vision, big hearts, and deep trust
in the intelligence of the collective. That ethos lives at the
core of everything we do.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Not a guru culture.
We're experiential by design
Everyone here has had some kind of IFS practice experience, not just intellectual study. You show up ready to be present, real, and in process.
We're not a guru culture
We believe in skill and wisdom, and share it generously. But hierarchy isn’t the vibe here. Every member has something to offer.
We grow our own leaders
You don’t need to be “certified” to lead. If you’re walking the walk, we’ll support you in stepping into PA roles, teaching, or co-facilitating.
We repair what breaks
Real community involves rupture. And repair. We’re proud of our agreements and the structures we’ve built for holding conflict and staying in connection.
MEET THE TEAM
Faculty & consultants.
David Stern
Licensed Psychologist · IFS Consultant
Licensed since 1992, trained in EMDR & Brainspotting. Teaching IFS for the last 10 years.
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
Co-Founder · Level 3 IFS Practitioner
Allied Mental Health Professional & NBHWC credentialed coach, dedicated to IFS since 2021.
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
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist
Private practice in Australia; 15 years in mental health, researching IFS and psychosis with UCSF & Flinders University
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.
Sigrid Kulkowitz
Certified IFS Therapist, Consultant & Clinical
Supervisor
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist for 14 years, focused on IFS for 9 — PA’d multiple Level 1 & 2 trainings.
I’m Sigrid Kulkowitz. I’m currently 66 years young and live in upstate NY with my husband in a community of about 250 residents. I have been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 14 years. The past 9 years with a focus on learning and practicing Internal Family Systems (IFS). After my own Level 1 and 2 training, I became a program assistant for several Level 1 and 2 trainings for the IFS Institute as well as assisting twice for Dick Schwartz. I became a Certified IFS therapist, consultant, and clinical supervisor 4 years ago. Along the way I have taught IFS introduction courses as well as done IFS consultation for both individuals and groups of therapists. Some would say I kind of eat and breathe IFS.
I love people and have a long history of working with them as a coach, acupuncturist, midwife assistant, and crisis counselor. I’ve also been a baker, waitperson, house cleaner, artist and dancer.
I love turning others onto IFS. To me it is a particularly beautiful and hopeful model for working with trauma. My work focuses on supporting my clients in healing their injured parts and therefore their relationship with themselves and others.
In my own inner work, IFS afforded healing in my system that I never had been able to experience before (thank you, Derek Scott!). I understand and am indebted to this model from the inside out so it is an honor and privilege to support this journey for others.
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