IFS Therapy

Are you curious what might happen if you turned inward to courageously meet yourself?

You’ve been trying to escape the self-doubt, judgment, sadness, and anger that hang around the edges of your awareness. But you can’t. 

There are parts of yourself you’re scared to look at even though you know they need attention. But those thoughts and feelings get overwhelming fast. 

IFS therapy will help you face both the suffering you feel day to day and the pain you’re diligently keeping boxed up. 

While we’re at it, you’ll also find parts of yourself holding pleasure, safety, creativity, and wisdom.

You hear people talk about self-compassion and you just don’t get it.

You worry that being too nice to yourself means you won’t get the dishes done or finish that next project. 

Self-compassion sounds great, but what does it actually look like? 

For starters, it means no longer yelling at yourself for motivation. That might work in the moment, but I bet you can feel it hurting more and more over time. 

Motivation with kindness is possible. So is letting yourself be a flawed human. 

Learn to feel at home in your own beautiful, messy, complex self.

IFS therapy emphasizes that ALL of you matters. All of you is worthy. Not just the face you show the world, but everything you keep hidden, too. Your secret dreams, your shaming voices, your anxiety and chaos, your despair. 

What if you could embrace all these parts in a way that doesn’t overwhelm you? 

By bringing presence and care to everything inside, you’ll find new resilience. You’ll also be able to nurture what you already love about yourself—even if you didn’t know it was there. 

When you have clarity about your own psyche, you can move through the world with more confidence. 

And you might find out you’re actually a pretty great person.

Send me a message now for a free consultation. 

So what is Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy?

In short, the Internal Family Systems model is a way of thinking about being a human based on the idea of multiplicity of the mind. We all have parts of ourselves with different functions in a larger system (the internal family) you think of as who you are. 

Some of the goals of IFS therapy are to increase communication and connection between your parts and yourself, address internal conflict and tension, and free yourself from deeply stored pain caused by wounding or trauma. 

Working with your own system leads to deeper self-awareness, internal harmony, connection with others, and emotional resilience. In turn, these changes help you find a more confident, caring, and attuned way of being in the world.

IFS is a non-pathologizing model, because it’s not about diagnoses or treatment plans. It’s about our full humanity.