Experience Matters

Mona Barbera, Ph.D is a psychologist with over 45 years experience, specializing in IFS couples therapy, IFS individual therapy. and consultation for IFS/IFIO couples therapists.  Dr. Barbera is a trainer for IFS and an IFIO graduate. She has been quoted in Better Homes and Gardens, Cosmopolitan, and Mens Fitness and has appeared on Boston Fox25 news,, NBC in New York, News8 in Washington, D.C., Peachtree TV in Atlanta, and KARE11 in Minneapolis. Her book for couples, “Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy” is the winner of the prestigious 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award in psychology/self-help, the Bronze medalist in the 2008 IPPY awards in Relationships and Sexuality, and a finalist in the 2009 Eric Hoffer Awards. 

Mona has written for the academic journals “The Journal of Imago Relationship Therapy” and “The Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,” and she has a chapters in books such as “IFS Integration: A  Comprehensive Guide” and “Imago Relationship Therapy: Perspectives on Theory,” by Luquet, Hannah and Hunt. She is past chair of the program committee and past board member of the New England Society for the Study and Treatment of Trauma and Dissociative Disorders.  She lives in Rhode Island with her husband. She has private practices in Providence, RI and Newport, RI.