IFS / Parts Work Therapy

Reunite with Your True Self

What Is IFS?

IFS, or Internal Family Systems, is a gentle and powerful form of parts work that views your mind as an inner family, composed of different "parts" such as protective managers, reactive firefighters, and vulnerable exiles. Beneath them all is your core Self, a calm, wise presence capable of leading internal healing. IFS helps you cultivate compassion toward these parts, enabling them to speak their needs and heal from the inside out.

Discover Your Parts

We begin by listening inward to identify your inner voices, feelings like perfectionism, anxiety, self-criticism, or burnout that show up in your daily life.

Build Trust with Self

IFS practices help you find confidence in your core Self, your calm, centered leader, and develop relational trust with your internal parts.

Unburden and Reconnect

With Self as mentor, we gently explore each part’s story, helping your protective parts and vulnerable parts feel heard, understood, and eventually freed from old wounds.

Cultivate Internal Harmony

The goal is not to eliminate parts but to help them relax into healthier roles, with Self leading the system with clarity, compassion, and balance.

IFS Works—and It’s Effective

IFS is a research-supported model that offers a powerful path to lasting change, especially for those carrying complex trauma, anxiety, and internal conflict. Unlike traditional talk therapy, which often focuses on insight alone, IFS creates a relationship with the emotional parts of you that hold pain, protect you from it, or try to control it.

By building trust with these parts, and allowing your core Self to lead the healing, IFS helps reduce inner resistance, lower emotional reactivity, and shift deeply rooted patterns.

Clinical research has shown that IFS therapy:

Reduces symptoms of PTSD, depression, and anxiety
Increases self-compassion and emotional regulation
Supports long-term emotional integration, not just symptom management

Clients often say that IFS helps them feel seen, not judged, and that for the first time, they’re able to understand their inner world in a way that creates real, sustainable relief.

Who Benefits Most

IFS is especially supportive for:

Adults managing anxiety, perfectionism, or inner conflict
High-achieving professionals quietly facing burnout, self-criticism, or overwhelm
Individuals with PTSD, complex trauma, or childhood wounds
Anyone seeking deeper emotional self-awareness and inner peace

Why It Fits

IFS gives you:

Insight without judgment
Tools to interrupt perfectionism and self-criticism
A roadmap to regulate your system from the inside—not through willpower
Healing that honors your hard-working parts while supporting the parts that have been silent for too long

Ready to Explore?

I offer a free 20-minute consultation by phone or video where you can ask questions, explore how therapy works, and get a sense of whether it’s the right fit for you.

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