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Sunny Strasburg | The Future of Therapy: Psychedelic Practices and Self-Energy

27 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube interview/talk (Sunny Strasburg) in which the speaker recounts a clinical anecdote: a physician-client described a distressing event (removing donated organs), which caused the speaker to feel upset. Instead of concealing her reaction (traditional stance), she used an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach, naming and checking in with the part of herself that wanted to cry. The clip illustrates therapist self-awareness, self-disclosure, and application of IFS in clinical practice.

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I had a client that was working. He's a physician, and he was taking organs out of people that had donated their organs. And he told me this horrific story about something that happened at work one day, and I could feel myself getting upset about the story that he told me. And instead of in traditional therapy, I would just push that all down and act like nothing bothered me. That would make me weak as a therapist to act like that rattled me at all. But because I'm ifs informed, I told him, wow, something's happening within me where I feel really upset by this story, and I'm feeling like this part of me wants to cry and really feel this, and I'm just going to take a moment and ask this part to.