
Nancy Berkowitz, is a Certified Level 3 IFS therapist with over 20 years’ experience. She has been deeply involved in IFS since 2007 and has focused on Somatic IFS (SIFS) since 2010. She has a rich background in integrating somatic practices into her work and has extensive experience assisting IFS trainings and SIFS retreats and trainings.
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Nancy is credentialled to care for people across the lifespan as both a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and a Psychiatric Clinical Specialist. She is in private practice, and she sees people both via telehealth and in her Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts office. Her approach is highly individualized and deeply respectful of the people in her care. She utilizes Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Somatic IFS in her clinical work and in her private life. She also has a background in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) which informs her work. She appreciates and utilizes feedback from those in her care, and she is passionate about incorporating people’s comments and suggestions in her work.
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Nancy is leading two retreats at Pura Vida Retreat & Spa in Costa Rica in 2025, and is also open to individual and group consultation. She is not taking any new people in her practice.
‘Nancy will bring her extensive experience staffing Somatic IFS retreats and trainings to these retreats for personal growth and deepening your IFS practice through a Somatic IFS lens.’
Susan McConnell, Developer of Somatic IFS, IFS Lead Trainer
– from Susan McConnell’s recent Somatic IFS newsletter.
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‘The Leader is my dear colleague Nancy Berkowitz who along with myself has studied and been program assistants to the founder of Somatic IFS Susan McConnell. I know Nancy's work as I have seen it directly and been a team member with her in many retreats and formal trainings. I completely and wholeheartedly endorse her.’
Lois A. Pessolano Ehrmann PhD, LPC, NCC Founder and Former Executive Director/Outpatient Therapist at The Individual and Family CHOICES* Program now called BIC-CHOICES
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