Internal Family Systems

IFS is a relatively new approach that's been found to be very effective for trauma. It involves "parts work" or finding and exploring parts of ourselves that can show up as feelings, emotions, thoughts, sensations, personality traits, and opinions. Working through these parts' protective qualities will take you to more vulnerable parts that carry the trauma. IFS uses a process called "unburdening" to help you heal those parts.

IFS aims to help individuals identify and work with these different parts in order to achieve greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional healing. The therapy involves developing a relationship with each part, understanding its role and purpose, and exploring any conflicts or negative beliefs associated with it. By promoting self-leadership and self-compassion, IFS can help individuals integrate conflicting parts and cultivate greater emotional resilience and well-being.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a person centered therapy which validates the multifaceted nature of human experience. By tapping into our self system we can resolve long standing internal conflicts, synchronize our internal energy and heal deeply. Ego state work can arise naturally in therapy or be a intervention to a road block. Many people find IFS an intuitive and powerful modality to work in.

Jordan finds that IFS pairs well with EMDR, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and treatment-resistant disorders as a way of normalizing clients' diverse inner experience and holding space for parts of self that may be hurting.

I am in the process of receiving training and certification in Internal Family Systems therapy.

I integrate Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and a Person-Centered approach to offer a safe, warm, and genuine space to find healing and support.

Sometimes we repeat patterns or behaviors that we don't like, that don't seem to make sense. Whether it's emotional eating, perfectionism or overwork, the struggle feels intractable. We may feel conflicted, like part of us wants to do one thing or be a certain way, while another part of us wants to go the opposite direction. IFS offers a framework for understanding these inner conflicts, and support a return to harmony within that honors the wisdom of your True Self.

IFS assumes that each person's mind is made up of "parts", each working to help the individual. Each individual also has a "Self" that, once embodied, allows for greater insight into parts' histories, roles, and experiences. By developing Self-leadership, clients become more confident in navigating their lives while also creating greater capacity to respond creatively to stressors. IFS shares many concepts with ideas and is best understood helping clients towards a new way of being.

Internal Family Systems, or IFS therapy, is a distinct approach that sees the mind as a family system with different parts playing specific roles. Through therapy, the focus is on understanding and fostering communication among these parts. Integrating these aspects leads to a balanced and harmonious inner life, promoting emotional well-being and personal growth.

All of us have experiences where a part of us wants one thing while another part of us wants another. One part of us wants to devour the snacks while another says we need to watch our weight. Internal Family Systems (IFS) gives language to these common experiences and teaches us how to recognize and reconcile quarreling parts within us. It allows us to transform parts of us that enact harmful patterns into the best version of them(our)selves.

I have been using IFS with myself and my clients for 5 years. I have completed both level 1 and level 2 trainings through the IFS Institute and have taken ongoing training with Institute lead trainers on working with self-criticism and polarities, self-led activism and somatic IFS. I work with my clients on getting to know parts of themselves, listening to internal needs and building internal connection and confidence.

Nearly 10 years of clinical experience using the Internal Family Systems approach.

I utilize internal family systems as a framework for therapy. This is to get to know your inner child, inner critic, shadows, and other internal committee members. When we know our internal family, and can communicate with them, the internal world can live in more harmony.

IFS is focused on exploring and getting to know all the different parts within us that make up who we are and influence how we think, feel, and act. Using IFS, we can help you to befriend the various parts of self, including some of the parts that might be protecting you from past trauma or carrying the pain of past trauma.

As an IFS Informed Therapist, I will help you connect with the feelings and beliefs that are no longer serving you. In IFS, we believe there are "no bad parts." All parts are welcome. All emotions, all thoughts and all beliefs that live in you have some reason they are showing up. We'll figure that out and help those emotions, thoughts and beliefs trust that you can take care of them from here.

We all have parts and there are no bad parts. IFS is an approachable intervention that works quickly and effectively for those who have experience trauma, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression.

We are all made up of parts as well as a core, nuclear self. Some parts develop in response to difficult experiences from our past to protect us from the dangers of the world. These parts can remain active for years, trying to protect us in ways that no longer work to promote our wellbeing. Learn how to manage these parts and support your core self and its expression in the world.

Parts work has a special place in my heart and in my practice. I continue to do a lot of reading on this particular modality in order to help my client through this work. We are one Self with parts who have appeared along our journey for various reasons. And what if we viewed those parts neutrally, and then with love and grace?