Cece Sykes, LCSW

Cece Sykes is an IFS Senior Trainer and consultant with over thirty years of clinical experience with individuals, couples and families. She specializes in recovery from trauma and addictive process and her chapter “An IFS Lens on Addiction: Compassion for Extreme Parts” appears in Innovations and Elaborations in IFS (Routledge, 2016). Cece lectures and consults across the US and internationally and is widely recognized for her warmth, clarity and humor. She lives and works in the city of Chicago.

In 1992 Cece opened her private practice, treating adults, couples and families. She also taught experiential psychology seminars for women at Governors State University for five years and for three years was adjunct faculty at the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Cece expanded her clinical focus to include the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy in the late 1990's. She is a Senior Trainer for the Internal Family Systems Institute and beginning in 2004 led level one, two and level three IFS training programs across the country and internationally. Cece contributed a chapter on IFS approaches to treating addictive process in the 2016 book Innovations and Elaborations . She is currently co-authoring a manual on how to use the IFS model to understand and treat addictive processes, scheduled for publication in 2021.

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Cece Sykes is in private practice. She receives a speaking fee from Center for Self Leadership. Ms. Sykes receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Cece Sykes is a member of the National Association of Social Workers; and the Internal Family Systems Association.