Please join CCRC's Internal Family Systems Book Club facilitated by our CEO, Josh Hetherington, LMFT, LCPC.

Meetings will occur weekly on Thursdays, 10am–11am CST, from September 11th until November 20th, 2025. The book of focus will be No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard Schwartz, PhD (2021).

As a prerequisite to joining, please complete the course Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Mindfulness, available through CCRC's website here and also facilitated by Josh Hetherington, LMFT, LCPC.

This is a beginner level clinician course; some experience in Internal Family Systems (IFS) recommended but not required. Each meeting will consist of a guided mindfulness exercise, chapter discussion, and case presentation and discussion. A format for case presentation will be provided and all members are invited to present and discuss to support the integration of book topic material into clinical application.

A discount is available when registering for all eleven meetings.

We hope you can join!

About the Instructor

Josh Hetherington, LMFT, LCPC Family Therapist, President of Chicago Center for Relationship Counseling, P.C., and Board President, Phoenix Clinic NFP.

I'm trained as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, in 2000. I've dedicated my professional life to working with individuals, couples and families on understanding what keeps them stuck and then removing the barriers. This process is collaborative and requires a give and take. I take steps to get feedback from the people I work with to help me understand what is helping, and what is not. I am also dedicated to building the community of helping professionals. I supervise students and professionals and am always excited to meet with other therapists and students to hear about their work and to share my experiences. This community is essential to the longevity of our work.

During my training at the Family Institute at Northwestern (TFI), I started parts therapy for myself. It was an amazing and transformative experience! I was able to connect with parts of myself that often felt out of control as a young adult. Not only connect with them but love them and transform them.​

After graduating from TFI in 1998, I started the Certified training in IFS with Dick Schwartz. This training took place over two years in person and culminated with a certification. I continued to practice IFS as a clinical staff member at The Family Institute from 2001 until 2011. I presented on IFS techniques and ideas during my time there and developed a workshop for couples that relied on IFS ideas. ​

In 2011 I left TFI and I started to work with my favorite IFS supervisor, Susan McConnel. Susan and her partner Beth O’Neil asked me to be a trainer with them at a training at the Chicago VA in 2014. Susan remained my supervisor for 3 years. ​IFS has always felt natural to me. It’s provided a way for me to understand the mind and help people look at themselves in a handy and profound way. I am excited to share these concepts with you as you work to explore your beliefs about the mind and how to help our clients make deep changes. ​

This workshop will pull from some of Dick Schwartz recent and older books. The objective is to introduce you to the concepts and prepare you for the next workshop, which will be didactic and include case consultation. 

Learn more about Josh