Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy: Nurturing Inner Harmony

Developed by Richard C. Schwartz, IFS therapy offers a unique and compassionate approach to healing and integration. Rather than viewing the inner self as a single entity, IFS recognizes that we all possess a multitude of distinct parts that carry our emotions, beliefs, and memories. These parts often have conflicting needs and desires, leading to internal discord and external challenges.
Through IFS therapy, you'll embark on a profound exploration of your inner landscape and shift how you relate and feel towards those parts. With this newfound understanding, you can begin to heal intergenerational patterns, trauma, depression, anxiety, and a range of other emotional and psychological challenges.
.

A Medicine Woman’s Prayer

I will not rescue you, for you are not powerless

I will not fix you, for you are not broken.

I will not heal you, for I see you in your wholeness.

I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your light.

-Sheree Bliss Tilsley

  • We can have anxious part, perfectionistic parts, people-pleasing parts, parts that block emotion, parts that flood us with emotion, parts that over-analyze or intellectualize, just to name a few. They often have an intention to protect us by helping us predict and control our surroundings, keep the people around us calm so we don’t experience their emotion, work to put out the pain of our own emotions, and so much more.

  • Burdens are the beliefs, feelings, expectations, traumas and patterns that were placed on us at a young age and sometimes older. They can come from our relationships with our care-givers, from our ancestors or lineage, from our culture and our societal norms and expectations. IFS allows us to identify these burdens and release them so we can feel more freedom and autonomy to be ourselves.

  • My fee for a 50 minute session is $200. I see clients on a weekly basis as this work requires consistency to be most effective. I see clients via tele-health during daytime hours M-W.