You are not “too much.”
You are not “broken.”
Every part of you
deserves to be here.
All Parts Welcome
helps you remember that.
“In the IFS world we often say ‘all parts welcome’ to express an openness and welcoming to our nuanced, complex, and sometimes contradictory ways of being.”
-Sand C. Chang, All Parts Welcome
All Parts Welcome:
A Workbook Created With and For Queer and Trans People
Queer and trans people often learn to hide, split off, or exile parts of ourselves—not because there’s anything wrong with us, but because we live in a world that hasn’t always welcomed our truths. As Sand C. Chang writes, “We typically don’t expect all of our parts to be welcomed—because they haven’t been.”
All Parts Welcome offers a spacious, trauma-informed guide to healing grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS). You’ll learn to work with your inner world gently, from a place of curiosity and compassion.
This book helps you:
Get guided, step-by-step support—not just theory
Learn to understand your internal world through the IFS framework
Build a compassionate relationship with all your parts
Explore how culture shapes your inner system
Work through trauma and internalized oppression
Access and cultivate Self energy—your capacity for healing and internal leadership
Reconnect with your body and reclaim trust in it
Engage with meditations, visualizations, and journal prompts to deepen practice
Be seen and held by a voice that centers queer and trans liberation
This isn’t a workbook to “fix” you. It’s a way to come home to yourself—with care, curiosity, and love—so you can move through the world with more freedom, trust, and inner clarity.
“IFS is a model that can hold the complexity and paradox of all our identities, including challenging experiences and joyful ones. Rather than simply focus on our queer or trans identities, there’s space for us to invite in all the ways that those identities intersect with other important facets of who we are: race, ethnicity, religion, class, and ability, to name a few.”
-Sand C. Chang, All Parts Welcome
Praise for
All Parts Welcome
Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the IFS model
“I’m so grateful to internal family systems (IFS) trainer Sand C. Chang for writing this book. It so skillfully applies my life’s work to the queer and trans community, a group that, traditionally and particularly lately, contains some of the more persecuted exiles in our culture. I not only highly recommend it as a potent workbook for that community, but also for anyone who wants to better understand and/or help them.”
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“I love this workbook! It’s a gentle, accessible, and nuanced guide to working with one’s internal parts, specifically for queer and trans people.”
—Colleen West, LMFT, IFS consultant and author of We All Have Parts
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“Without exaggeration, this workbook is immediately indispensable… This book is a bright star illuminating how we may become more skillful at radical belonging.”
—Ash(ley) Gregory, LMFT, Queer and Trans IFS Teaching Assistant
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“This workbook seamlessly integrates IFS in a way that feels both accessible and transformative… a much-needed resource for healing, self-understanding, and coming home to yourself.”
—Rebecca Minor, LICSW, gender specialist
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“This book empowers readers to understand their inner world, address the impact of societal biases, and reclaim self-led self-care and community.”
—Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT, author of The Pain We Carry
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“Sand C. Chang lovingly guides the reader through introducing IFS theory to how this work intersects with our bodies, gender, and sexual orientation. On this journey I could feel a settling in my body, an internal understanding that as a queer and trans person this resource really is for us—a tool that connects our inner world with the external challenges of heterosexism and cis- supremacy while providing a blueprint for healing.”
—Damon Constantinides, PhD, sex therapist in private practice
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“Sand C. Chang’s knowledge of IFS, commitment to body liberation, and fierce love of community is felt throughout this book.”
—Nic Wildes, LMHC, certified IFS therapist
“There’s no magic cure outside of us that can make us whole. According to IFS, what we’re seeking is in us already. What our parts need to heal or shift into more harmonious positions is us, meaning they need Self energy. Self-to-part relationship is seen as the vehicle for healing.”
-Sand C. Chang, All Parts Welcome
Meet the Author
Sand C. Chang, PhD (they/them) is a clinical psychologist, certified IFS practitioner and trainer, and longtime advocate for body liberation, trans health, and healing justice. A queer, trans, nonbinary Chinese American, Sand brings lived experience and deep clinical wisdom to their work supporting LGBTQIA2S+ communities.
They are also an equity consultant, educator, and cofounder of QTIFS (Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems), where they train other providers in culturally attuned, trauma-informed IFS care.
All Parts Welcome reflects Sand’s fierce love for queer and trans people, and their belief that every part of us is worthy of care.
“I truly believe that when we, as queer and/or trans individuals, engage in liberatory practices within ourselves, we have a much better chance of moving toward collective liberation for all.”
-Sand C. Chang, All Parts Welcome
You’re not alone.
You never were.
Join the growing community of queer and trans readers reclaiming wholeness—one part at a time.