Podcasts
Healing Addictions with Internal Family Systems
In this episode of The Weekend University, Niall speaks with Professor Marc Lewis and Cece Sykes about addiction, Internal Family Systems therapy, and the neuroscience of behavioural change.
March 19, 2026
Reclaiming Intuition with Cece Sykes
In this lively conversation, Martha and Angela explore the concept of intuition with their guest Cece Sykes, a consultant and senior trainer with the Internal Family Systems Institute.
February 16, 2026
Self-Led in Bed: Loving Up Our Sexual Firefighters
”The first thing I ever wrote about firefighters is why I love my firefighters. And I said, firefighters add spice to life…they relieve us of the humdrum of our manager driven lives.” - Cece Sykes
January 1, 2026
Going Inside: Cece Sykes on IFS, Addiction & The Power of Choice
In this episode of Going Inside, John Clarke sits down with the legendary Cece Sykes, IFS trainer, therapist, and pioneer in the field of addiction recovery, for a rich, open-ended conversation about the complex dance between trauma, addictive processes, and the healing power of choice.
January 1, 2026
Your Soul’s Therapist: Inner Soothers: Healing Addictive Behaviors with the IFS Model”
April 28, 2025
In this profound episode of Your Soul’s Therapist, Vlada de Sousa is joined by Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW — a founding trainer at the IFS Institute and a pioneer in healing trauma and addiction through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model.
IFS Talks: The Nature and Healing of Exiles
In this episode of IFS Talks, we will be speaking with Cece about the Nature and Healing of Exiles in IFS therapy.
April 10, 2025
Meditations for Drug Rehab: IFS & Three Forces that Influence the Mind
Meditations for Drug Rehab: IFS & Three Forces that Influence the Mind
September 4, 2024
Hope Stream: An understanding village for moms of kids who misuse substances and struggle with mental health.
August 22, 2024
Everyone knows the experience of internal dialogue and conflict about who we are and how we will respond to the world around us. It can feel as if there are parts of us at war with each other. For kids using substances, these parts can become extremely polarized – for instance, part of them wants nothing more than to use, and another genuinely desires self-control.
The Weekend University: Healing Addiction with IFS & Polyvagal Theory
In this interview, I’m joined by world leading addiction treatment experts — Jan Winhall and Cece Sykes. Jan has been working closely with Stephen Porges to develop a Polyvagal informed model for treating addiction, while Cece is one of the world’s foremost experts on leveraging Internal Family Systems for healing addictive processes, having recently co-authored a book with Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy on this subject.
July 11, 2024
IFS Down Under: IFS and Addiction: A Compassionate Paradigm
June 20, 2024
Going Inside: Healing From Addiction through IFS ft. Cece Sykes
In this episode of "Going Inside" John Clarke is joined by Cece Sykes, an experienced therapist and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner. Cece shares insights into addiction, recovery, and the role of IFS in understanding and healing addictive patterns. The conversation delves into the stigma around mental health and addiction, the importance of compassion in therapy, and the impact of agenda in the therapeutic process.
March 25, 2025
Empowered Through Compassion: Addiction and IFS
Welcome to this beautiful conversation with one of the masters of IFS-- Cece Sykes. She shows us how IFS can be helpful for people struggling with addictions. In fact, she goes a step further, and we speak about how addictions are all around us, sometimes we don't even recognize how many things we are all addicted to in our culture! Some addictions are even encouraged (think about the workaholics or the greedy politicians as examples).
February 9, 2024
Hard Knox Talks: Understanding the Chatter with Cece Sykes
Don't think you hear voices? Who is reading this to you then? When Cece first came onto my radar and I noticed she specialized in the Internal Family System, I though she was talking about family dynamics, boy was I wrong. Frankly Cece blew my mind when she started talking about the Family dynamic we all have in our own head.
November 17, 2023
People Business: How to Ask if Someone Needs Help w/ Cece Syke
Welcome to this beautiful conversation with one of the masters of IFS-- Cece Sykes. She shows us how IFS can be helpful for people struggling with addictions. In fact, she goes a step further, and we speak about how addictions are all around us, sometimes we don't even recognize how many things we are all addicted to in our culture! Some addictions are even encouraged (think about the workaholics or the greedy politicians as examples).
November 14, 2023
The One Inside: IFS and Addiction with Cece Sykes and Mary Kruger
I'm excited to talk to Mary Kruger (again!) and Cece Skyes who wrote a Chapter in the Altogether Us book entitled, "IFS and Addiction: Compassion for the Addictive Process."
September 8, 2023
Her Self: Understanding Addictive Processes with Cece Sykes
I'm excited to talk to Mary Kruger (again!) and Cece Skyes who wrote a Chapter in the Altogether Us book entitled, "IFS and Addiction: Compassion for the Addictive Process."
May 25, 2023
Turning In: Cece Sykes, LCSW
This is a special episode. Meghan and Amy spend time with Cece Sykes, LCSW. Cece has been involved in the IFS community since its conception in the 80's and 90's, she shares her love for firefighters and explains her philosophy on Parts who hold addictive processes, and more!
April 17, 2023
IFS Masters: Living and Teaching IFS with Toni HB and Cece Sykes
Cece Sykes is a consultant and senior trainer with the Internal Family Systems Institutewhere she specializes in trauma and addiction and educates therapists around the world on how to apply the IFS model to addictive processes.
March 9, 2023
IFS Talks: Therapeutic Relationships and Addictive Processes: Help for Managers!
October 2, 2022
Cece Sykes, LCSW is a senior trainer at the Internal Family Systems Institute with over thirty-five years of clinical experience specializing in recovery from trauma and addiction.
Self-Led in Bed: Loving Up Our Sexual Firefighters
In this powerful and compassionate interview, Cece speaks about her way of working therapeutically with addictive processes. She also shares her ways of supporting therapists to tell their stories in a safe container.
July 18, 2022
IFS Talks: How to stay Present for Addictive Processes with Cece Sykes
In this episode focused on our journeys as therapists and counselors, we welcome back Cece Sykes. Cece has over 40 years of experience of clinical work with individuals, couples and families, specializing in recovery from trauma and addictive processes.
January 22, 2022
IFS Talks: Our Journeys as Therapists: A Talk with Cece Sykes
In this episode focused on our journeys as therapists and counselors, we welcome back Cece Sykes. Cece has over 40 years of experience of clinical work with individuals, couples and families, specializing in recovery from trauma and addictive processes.
August 24, 2020
Positive Sobriety: Explaining Internal Family Systems with Cece Sykes
Therapist and theorist Cece Sykes explains how internalized voices from childhood influence in the daily dramas of addiction and recovery.
January 10, 2020
IFS Talks: Talk with Cece Sykes on Bringing IFS into Extreme Parts
This is an IFS Talk with Cece Sykes, an IFS Senior Trainer, US and international. She has Contributed to Levels 1 and 2 IFS training manuals and teaches L1 as well as L2 Trauma and Addiction. Cece has over thirty years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and families, specializing in work with the effects of trauma and addiction.
September 21, 2019