On this week’s episode of Enneagram IRL, we meet with Amanda Steed. Amanda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) serving Texas, Colorado, and Washington through her private practice - Unfolding Collective - Therapy & Consulting. With a mission to facilitate healing and wholeness, Amanda believes in the power of establishing trusting relationships as the cornerstone of therapy.

Her therapeutic approach is rooted in trauma-informed care and attachment-focused techniques. Amanda has completed Level One IFS training, is EMDR-certified and an EMDR consultant in training. She trusts these evidence-based modalities to guide her clients through core wound healing, creating new pathways in the brain, and empowering them to regain a fulfilling life. She specializes in working with spiritual trauma, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and codependency.

While Amanda takes her work very seriously, she does not take herself seriously and enjoys being silly as often as possible. 

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Here are the key takeaways:

• A dive into Amanda’s background
• Amanda’s strengths as a Type Eight therapist
• What is Internal Family Systems Therapy?
• Discussing the “inner critic” and “inner child” parts of ourselves
• Healing vulnerable parts 
• “We all have the ability to hold self-energy”
• How can IFS help with trauma or ADHD?
• Resources for Internal Family Systems Therapy
• How to connect with Amanda

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• IFS Institute
• Transcending Trauma by Frank G. Anderson
• No Bad Parts by Schwartz Ph.D., Richard
• Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS): An Intensive Online Course by Dr. Frank Anderson
• Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
• EMDR + IFS PARTS Protocol: An EMDR Advanced Training with Dr. Kendhal Hart
• Internal Family Systems Therapy - 2nd Edition by Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy
• The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas

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