When It Is Used
Use it after witnessing when the vulnerable part is still experienced as located in a distressing past context.
Retrieval Minimal Live-Session Documentation Tool
Retrieval is a live-session IFS healing-step support and minimal documentation tool for practitioners. It helps track whether a vulnerable part is experienced as no longer trapped in an original distressing context after witnessing.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The tool captures initial and later experienced context, transition status, protector resistance, overwhelm, and stabilization notes.
Important Limits
The tool does not provide retrieval scripts, imagery instructions, detailed trauma reconstruction, distress scores, or automated healing claims.
Does Retrieval generate imagery or steps?
No. Retrieval documents the live process; it does not generate imagery, scripts, or instructions.
Can the result be not transitioned?
Yes. Not transitioned, paused, unclear, and partial outcomes are supported and are not product failures.
Why is the review so minimal?
The tool intentionally has little structured output and focuses on before/after experiential context and stabilization notes.
What is saved from the demo?
The fixed Retrieval tool is saved as-is. Fictional transition content and sample notes are not saved as real client data.