Learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy supports therapists working with suicidal clients. This compassionate guide explores the U-turn, a core IFS practice for self-reflection and presence, helping clinicians respond to suicide risk with clarity, connection, and care.

When parts of us are in pain, they often speak through extremes. In Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, suicidal thoughts are not signs of disorder. They are signals from protectors trying to shield us from what feels unbearable.

Integrating suicidology and lived clinical experience, it invites clinicians to move beyond labels and listen deeply to the parts that want to die, the parts that want to live, and the Self that can hold them both.