Parts Work Therapy: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Parts Work Therapy, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Evaluate the outcome and adjust
After implementing, honestly assess what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical - Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Practice titration with low-stakes material to build the skill
Apply the titration approach to ordinary everyday discomfort — mild frustration, physical tension, minor disappointment — to build the skill before harder material.
Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical - Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist. - Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
IFS, developed by Richard Schwartz, treats the mind as made of distinct "parts" — protectors and wounded exiles — orbiting a calm core "Self." The work is to lead from Self, understand each part’s protective intent, and help carried burdens release. The model is widely used and increasingly studied, but its controlled-evidence base is still emerging compared with CBT or DBT. - Track the relationships between parts
Notice how parts trigger, protect, and sometimes war with each other — the system’s dynamics are as important as its members.
IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical - The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works - Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
Parts mapping is an Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz) practice of systematically identifying and visually or narratively charting the distinct inner parts — critics, worriers, peacekeepers, wounded exiles — and their relationships to each other. It is a diagnostic and orientation tool: it shows you the terrain of your inner system before you try to work with any single part. Evidence sits within the broader IFS and parts-work literature, which is growing but not yet on par with CBT or DBT. - Treat conflict as maintenance, not maintenance failure
Repair well and quickly — because how you end conflict matters more than how you conduct it.
Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I finally tried something and it only half-worked, and my whole brain went "see, nothing I do ever works"
- When I try to untangle one of these convictions in my head it just spins
- I only ever try to work with my body when something huge and overwhelming is already on me
- I keep working on my inner critic and nothing shifts, and I’m realizing it’s because the second the critic eases off, the part that procrastinates takes over
- All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
Related concerns
- Parts Work Therapy Book
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
- Parts Work Therapy Workbook
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
- Parts Work Therapy Worksheets
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
- Parts Works Therapy
Notice how parts trigger, protect, and sometimes war with each other — the system’s dynamics are as important as its members.
Track the relationships between parts
- Parts Work Book Therapy
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
- Parts Work Worksheet Therapy
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
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