Our Esteemed Presenters

Priscilla Boyd, LMSW, was in the very first IFS training group in 1999. She is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Tinley Park and works full time consulting and providing professional development for schools in the south suburbs of Chicago. She has trained in various treatment modalities and is a mindfulness facilitator at The Center in Palos Park. She conducts quarterly retreats using SoulCollage and is a CEU provider through Awake and Free Retreats.

Vera Dyck, RP (Inactive), Certified AWA Writing Group Facilitator, is a writer/writing group facilitator, activist and community-builder who lives and works in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She has been writing in the AWA method for 17 years and began facilitating AWA writing groups in 2018, the same year she completed IFS Level 1 training. Combining AWA and IFS is one of her purest joys. Vera, currently inactive as a Registered Psychotherapist, is IFS Level 2 trained. IFS informs her writing groups; she also uses IFS in her writing and activism, and in explorations in the community with her PartNer, Steve (also IFS Level 1 trained).

Beth Jerva, LCSW, is a Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist as well as a Certified Yoga Teacher. She completed Level 1 IFS training in 2013 and works with children, adolescents and adults, specializing in anxiety, trauma and addictions. She has presented on the benefits of yoga therapy in clinical settings and has developed many therapeutic yoga workshops focusing on adolescents, anxiety, mindfulness and calming techniques for children. Beth has studied alternative therapies since graduating with her MSW in 1998, having completed her Phoenix Rising Therapy training in 2003 and yoga teaching certification in 2004.

Tanis Allen, LMSW, ACSW, your “camp director,” is a Certified IFS Therapist and clinical consultant in private practice in Ann Arbor, specializing in work with depression and anxiety, eating disorders, grief and loss issues and mentoring other therapists learning the model. She has been training in and teaching the model for over 25 years, having completed Level 1 training in 2003, Level 2 in 2007 and Level 3 in 2019. Tanis has been a frequent presenter at the annual IFS national conference as well as other venues, has served as a PA many times, and is author of a new book being published at the end of this year by Penquin/Random House Books titled, “The Self-Led Internal Family Systems Workbook: Learn to Use IFS Skills to Understand and Love All Your Parts.” With the help of our wonderfully gifted teachers and committed supporters in the IFS Great Lakes tribe, she created the IFS Great Lakes Retreat in 2015. She is so thrilled to gather with all of you on the shores of beautiful Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which has been a lifelong source of healing and inspiration for her, and she is hopeful that all of you will find that here as well.....