Launching Parts

For the last two years, T. and I have been building Parts, a mapping tool for practitioners of a therapeutic modality called Internal Family Systems1. In this modality, a therapist works with a person’s “parts”, and a common practice for therapists, as part of their note-keeping, is to put together a map of these parts, and how they relate to each other. This is commonly done on paper, and, as new parts and new relationships are discovered in following sessions, the maps need to be updated, and changes need to be tracked. We thought it could be useful to have a digital version of this, which is exactly what Parts is trying to be. As it is today, the software allows therapists to create multiple maps, map parts and relationships, track relationships’ intensity and parts’ locations in the body, and observe a map’s evolution across multiple sessions. It seems like there’s some demand for this kind of tool, as we’ve had about a hundred people on the waiting list, with virtually no…