Sep 22, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
What if the patterns sabotaging your relationships began long before you met the person you want to marry? Dr. Gerry Crete shares how trauma, attachment styles, and unresolved wounds can shape the…
Gerry CreteGuest
Elizabeth BuzbeeHost
Can you please give our audience, um, a brief explanation of your clinical background, the internal parts, internal family systems, and the parts work and everything? Um-
I have had people-- I love that you specified about the connection with your Catholic faith, because I've had people who are super Catholic have a therapist that isn't Catholic who does IFS in a way that is damaging, which I think is one of the things that is so amazing about having a Catholic therapist who can integrate the reality and the truth of Catholicism, take the wheat from something that the secular world created, and just leave the weeds, right? 'Cause it is a very, very powerful, effective therapeutic modality.
I'm guessing there are gonna be some people listening to this who are like, "IFS, I had a terrible experience." Like, no way.
So can you please explain what it is and then draw a little connection with the Catholic faith for anyone who might feel-
I mean, I, I go into great length in the book, so I'll, I'll, I'll maybe just point out a couple of things.
Um, I mean, I would say this, um, Dick Schwartz, who is not even Christian, I don't believe, um, is, is the one who developed it, uh, internal family systems in the 1980s.
And he did it when he was sort of doing empty chair work with people, and empty chair is an approach, I know you know it, but, like, where you're kinda...
You have the person talking to, you know, another person in a sort of, like, maybe your mother who's passed away or something in a chair.
And he discovered that people could have a dialogue, in a sense, with themselves, that we have these inner conflicts.
And so anyhow, anyhow, uh, he discovered this, and I see it in St. Paul's language.
Can you please give our audience, um, a brief explanation of your clinical background, the internal parts, internal family systems, and the parts work and everything? Um-
I have had people-- I love that you specified about the connection with your Catholic faith, because I've had people who are super Catholic have a therapist that isn't Catholic who does IFS in a way that is damaging, which I think is one of the things that is so amazing about having a Catholic therapist who can integrate the reality and the truth of Catholicism, take the wheat from something that the secular world created, and just leave the weeds, right? 'Cause it is a very, very powerful, effective therapeutic modality.
I'm guessing there are gonna be some people listening to this who are like, "IFS, I had a terrible experience." Like, no way.
So can you please explain what it is and then draw a little connection with the Catholic faith for anyone who might feel-
I mean, I, I go into great length in the book, so I'll, I'll, I'll maybe just point out a couple of things.
Um, I mean, I would say this, um, Dick Schwartz, who is not even Christian, I don't believe, um, is, is the one who developed it, uh, internal family systems in the 1980s.
And he did it when he was sort of doing empty chair work with people, and empty chair is an approach, I know you know it, but, like, where you're kinda...
You have the person talking to, you know, another person in a sort of, like, maybe your mother who's passed away or something in a chair.
And he discovered that people could have a dialogue, in a sense, with themselves, that we have these inner conflicts.
And so anyhow, anyhow, uh, he discovered this, and I see it in St. Paul's language.
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