Introducing
Joanne Twombly
Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders, provides trainings and consultation.
She has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with perpetrator introjects. Her commitment to helping her clients heal and to providing quality training has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.
She is a past president of the New England Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. In recognition of her achievements and her service on committees and the Board of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) she was honored with ISSTD's Distinguished Achievement Award and is an ISSTD Fellow.
Trauma and
Dissociation
Informed
Internal Family
Systems
How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
Learn to use Internal Family Systems to support and provide healing to people with complex trauma and dissociative disorders. By integrating IFS with established research and evidence-based treatment from the trauma field, this book will give you strategies, coping skills, and more to treat these clients effectively and ethically.
Testimonials
What People Are Saying
2nd Edition Announcement!
This second edition is a cleaned-up version of the first. For one thing, the editing is much better
so the careful reader will not be distracted by the many grammar mistakes, missing words, etc.
Also, the index, mysteriously missing-in-action from the first edition, is thankfully included in
this one. (The index for the first edition is on this website!)
I have been humbled and thankful for all the emails I’ve received following the publication of
the first edition. Any doubts that I had about whether this material is needed have been answered
by many therapists and IFS clients, e.g. one who wrote, “I just read your book and now
understand why I’ve been getting re-traumatized in my IFS therapy.”
IFS is a fantastic treatment model, and this book extends its use to the population of people with
complex trauma and dissociative disorders and to people who just need more support. Coping
skills help managers and other parts manage better, which in turn results in life being easier and
more grounded during the process of healing. I find this simply a kindness.
How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
The information in this book can help by integrating dimensions into the already excellent framework of standard IFS. With this book, you will gain the knowledge of how to treat these clients safely, respectfully, ethically, and successfully.
Inside, you’ll discover:
- Strategies to strengthen and support managers’ ability to manage
- Integration of the powerful treatment modality of IFS
- Coping skills and affect management for all parts that will help clients get through the healing process more efficiently and protect their daily functioning
- The ability to use basic hypnotic language to enhance the use and impact of the basic IFS process through simple hypnotic wording.
- Helpful ways of conceptualizing this therapy
- And more…
Get Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems today!
Publications
Twombly, J.H. 2001
“Safe Place Imagery: Handling Intrusive Thoughts and Feelings.” The EMDRIA Newsletter: Special Edition, December, EMDRIA.
Twombly, J.H. 2005
“EMDR for Client’s with Dissociative Identity Disorder, DDNOS, and Ego States.” In R. Shapiro (Ed.), EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing. New York, NY: Norton.
Twombly, JH, and Schwartz, R. (2008)
The Integration of the Internal Family Systems Model and EMDR. In Healing the Heart of Trauma and Dissociation with EMDR and Ego State Therapy. Ed. Forgash, C., and Copeley M. Springer Publishing Company (2008).
Twombly, J.H. 2010
“Installation and Transmission of Current Time and Life Orientation;” “Height Orientation;” “Safe Space Imagery;” “Installing Therapist, Therapist’s Office, and Maintaining Duality;” “Initial Targeting of Traumatic Material.” Chapters in EMDR Scripted Protocols: Special Populations. Ed. Luber, M. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company
Twombly, J.H. 2012
“Overt and Covert Perpetrator Ego States in Dissociative Disordered Patients.” In Vogt, R. (Ed.), Perpetrator Introjects: Psychotherapeutic Diagnostics and Treatment Models. Kroenging, Germany: Asanger Verlag.
Twombly, J.H. 2013
“Integrating IFS with Phase Oriented Treatment of Dissociative Disordered Clients.” In Internal Family Systems Therapy: Versatility in Application. Ed. Sweezy, M. and Ziskind, EL. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis/ Routledge.
Twombly, J.H. 2013
“The DES and Beyond: Screening for Dissociative Disordered Clients.” Trauma and Recovery: HAP Newsletter.
Trainings
Scheduled Trainings
June 7th and 8th, 4 Hours a day. Will be translated to English from Spanish. This workshop will be an on-line worksop.
Australia
CTP workshops: The initial events are a 3-day [CTP day-only, in-person workshop in Sydney], and a 3-day [CTP ‘retreat’ workshop in the Melbourne region] in-person in September 2024. Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders: Applied Parts work using IFS and EMDR (provisional title)
Ponznan, Poland
Examples of those provided
Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems
What You Need to Know about Successful Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders with EMDR or Without (1-2 day)
Perpetrator Parts and Non-Verbal Communication: What Every Therapist Should Know
Integration of IFS Interventions in the Standard EMDR Protocol
The Use of Hypnosis in Treating Complex Trauma and the Dissociative Disorders
Learn More
What You'll Find Inside The Book
Strategies to strengthen and support managers’ ability to manage
Integration of the powerful treatment modality of IFS
Coping skills and affect management for all parts that will help clients get through the healing process more efficiently and protect their daily functioning
The ability to use basic hypnotic language to enhance the use and impact of the basic IFS process through simple hypnotic wording.
Helpful ways of conceptualizing this therapy
And more...
Get Handouts on Safe Space imagery and the Fire Drill
Podcasts
Listen to the podcast and get more confidence as a therapist and empower your clients as they move forward on their own journey.
April 3, 2023
System Speak: Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder), Complex Trauma , and Dissociation
My Book
Trauma and Dissociation
Informed Internal Family
Systems
How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
Learn how to use a powerful and effective treatment (IFS therapy) to support people with complex trauma and dissociative disorders in their healing process. This book will give you strategies, coping skills, and more to treat these kinds of clients effectively and ethically.
How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
The information in this book can help by integrating dimensions into the already excellent framework of standard IFS. With this book, you will gain the knowledge of how to treat these clients safely, respectfully, ethically, and successfully.
Inside, you’ll discover:
- Strategies to strengthen and support managers’ ability to manage
- Integration of the powerful treatment modality of IFS
- Coping skills and affect management for all parts that will help clients get through the healing process more efficiently and protect their daily functioning
- The ability to use basic hypnotic language to enhance the use and impact of the basic IFS process through simple hypnotic wording.
- Helpful ways of conceptualizing this therapy
- And more…
Get Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems today!
