Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

IFS is the foundation of my practice, the way I see myself, others, and the world. It is truly a GAME CHANGER for personal growth and healing.

What is IFS?

IFS is a compassionate, experiential, evidenced based parts model that views the client as the expert of their own experience and self - the therapist is there to help guide the client’s journey of discovery, healing and growth. Most people find IFS to be a very non-pathologizing approach.

IFS has become one of the fastest growing healing modalities in recent years. I love that IFS fosters a client’s attachment to themselves, has lots of potential for bringing spirituality into sessions in whatever form that takes for a client, and recognizes the client as their own healing agent. It is truly a remarkable and unique approach to evolution, growth and change!

To learn more about the IFS model, click here.

What is the format of an IFS Session therapy session?

Sessions can look different depending on your needs at the time. We may:

• Do what I call the “deep dive” and use the model to go inside and have you connect and interact directly with your parts. This is the MAGIC of IFS. We can have an intellectual understanding of our parts but when we go inside and develop a relationship with them, we can learn more about what they do or hold for us, how they are influencing our emotions and behavior, help them release pain and trauma, and so much more. THIS is what makes IFS so special, and can bring clients to a much deeper place of healing and growth than modalities that keep us in our ego or thinking mind.

• Keep things on the “here and now level” to discuss how you are noticing and supporting parts in every day life, and to help you integrate “deep dive” sessions

• Explore a legacy burden your system is carrying, which could be ancestral, come from parents or the collective, or even a past life. If your system is ready, we can also help you release legacy burdens which can provide healing for past and future generations.

• Some combination of the above!

Let’s see what we can do together!