Internal Family Systems

Sometimes it can feel as though a certain feeling or thought appears out of nowhere—like overwhelming anxiety, a sense of shame, or a critical inner voice. In Internal Family Systems (IFS), we see these experiences as distinct parts within you, all trying in their own ways to help or protect you. Instead of pushing them away, IFS encourages you to find curiosity, build understanding, and offer the care they’ve been missing. When you gently welcome these parts and acknowledge their intentions, they often soften, recognizing they don’t have to work so hard to keep you safe—and that shift paves the way for deeper healing and self-acceptance.

We all have many different parts inside us—those little thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that shape how we see ourselves and the world. IFS doesn’t just treat symptoms; it helps you cultivate an ongoing relationship with the deeper wisdom that’s always been within you. As your parts begin to trust this inner guidance, you’ll move toward greater harmony, clarity, and a renewed sense of wholeness from the inside out.

    • When working through trauma - instead of re-experiencing and ‘being in’ the traumatic event, like other exposure-based modalities, you are sitting with the part that holds the trauma story and are allowing it space to share whatever it needs with you. It is a gentle and compassionate process. We will always go at your, and your systems, pace.

    • Learn to see yourself as differentiated from your parts and behaviors - allowing for more compassion for yourself and your system.

    • Provides a normalizing, non-judgmental perspective on your internal world.

    • Learn how to access your Self energy - compassion, calmness, curiosity, courage, confidence, clarity, connectedness, and creativity.

    • Achieve balance, harmony, and wholeness in your life - internally and externally. Learn to create and sustain communication between Self and parts. This allows you to ask the part to ‘unblend’ when a part is flooding or overwhelming the system. That way, you can be WITH the part instead of BE the part.

    • Gain more understanding of yourself and the way your system functions, which in turn allows for more compassionate understanding of those around you.

    • Gain better communication with your family, friends, and community through deeper understanding and compassion.

    • Understand your inner critic and allow your inner critic to understand you - creating more acceptance and less shame.