IFS Self Guided Parts Work with Protectors: Video Lesson 5

Working with Protectors: Start to Finish
This is an almost 3 hour long online course of several videos in a playlist, focusing on working with protectors, a journey through self guided parts work, from initial introductions to asking the part’s permission to work with an exile, the protector’s primal subconscious fear.
For each video, please set aside the time to watch the entire video, the lesson is important to the process of self guided parts work, which is essential for transformation and growth. Please purchase and keep a parts work journal, to reflect on, and write about, your experience, and track your progress, and I invite you to purchase the Self Therapy workbook.
Please feel free to take a break between the chapters, or after each chapter, and come back to the video when you’re ready to proceed. This can be helpful if you don’t have the time to watch the entire video. After watching the video and completing the activities myself, I concluded that this course lesson might be best engaged over the course of one whole 9 hour day, with scheduled 10 minute breaks after each chapter, and one sixty minute meal break halfway through the video.
There are guided meditations on this channel that safely teach you the steps and processes in a more relaxed way. Other videos will delve into specific areas, like working with a perfectionism part, an inner critic part, a passive aggressive part, or a people pleaser part, to name just a few. There will be other videos addressing specific circumstances with IFS parts work, like communities, families, workplaces, and in romantic or intimate relationships.
I’m James Fitzgerald. I’m a Vermont state licensed clinical mental health counselor. James Fitzgerald Therapy PLLC is the name of my private practice located in South Burlington Vermont. My therapy program, universal treatment plan, and health and wellness program, is called Strengthening Your Conscious Self.
I’m a national certified counselor by the National Board of Certified Counselors. I’m a member in good standing of the American Counseling Association. And I’m an active member of the Vermont Counseling Network. I’m a life skills coach, addiction recovery coach, and health and wellness program coach. This video is a complementary supplement to my health and wellness program, and universal treatment plan, Strengthening Your Conscious Self.
I’m sharing the videos I create in the public domain, for easy access by my clients in coaching and therapy. My desire is to share free to consumer, evidence based, mental health, and health and wellness, information and education. My hope is to balance out the overwhelming amount of harmful, misleading, and dangerous mental health, and health and wellness related content, found online.
This video and others like it on this channel are separate from my mental health counseling private practice, and should not be construed as advice or suggestion. This video is for educational or informational purposes only, and should not replace mental health care and professional medical, psychiatric, or psychological treatment. If you are struggling with serious mental health challenges, watching this video without working with a therapist or other mental health professional is discouraged.
I encourage you to watch the other prerequisite videos about Internal Family Systems Therapy in the order they are sorted, on the internal family systems therapy masterclass module one playlist.
The other videos in this masterclass will include videos I have created, and videos from other content creators, like Lucas Forstmeyer, Dr Jennifer May, Dr Tori Olds, Richard Schwartz, Dr Dawn Elise Snipes, Dr Frank Anderson, Lucille Aaron Wayne, Kate King, Kati Morton, Teresa Lewis, Connor McMillan, Tim Fortescue, and Derek Scott, who are all inspirational to my work, and to my videos.
The prerequisite videos will help you better understand the terminology used in the videos, different parts of your system and how they interact, the managers, firefighters, and exiles, the self, and the self capacities.
It would also be helpful and beneficial for you, when doing parts work with self guided therapy, to view as many of the videos in the mindfulness masterclass modules as you can, before you begin this Internal Family Systems masterclass.
It might be helpful for you to purchase and read or complete the following books and workbooks, which are the inspiration to this work I do and the videos I have created.
Introduction to IFS and No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, Parts Work by Tom Holmes, Self Therapy by Jay Earley, Self Therapy Workbook by Bonnie Weiss, and The Others Within Us by Robert Falconer.
I do not receive any type of compensation for naming these sources, and I neither endorse or support the evidence of the information or claims shared in these sources.