Nancy Sowell, LICSW, is an IFS Senior Trainer and a Harvard Medical School Teaching Associate at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Nancy is a behavioral medicine specialist who has been teaching IFS to multidisciplinary medical staff and students for over twenty years. As the Behavioral Medicine Program Manager in the Department of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, she developed an IFS intervention program with a research team for rheumatoid arthritis patients. She knows both personally and professionally the relational healing power of IFS – with parts, the body, and other people to support health, well-being, and the open-hearted desire to live courageously.