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Internal Family SystemsGet to know yourself in a whole new way with Internal Family Systems – a supportive, gentle path for self-inquiry and change.
IFS informed spiritual counseling can help you:
- Ease anxiety
- Soften your inner critic
- Access more calm and clarity
- Increase your self-confidence
- Feel more spiritually connected
- Integrate plant medicine experiences
- Overcome self-defeating behaviors
- Break through creative blocks
- Know yourself in a powerful new way
How it Works
Internal Family Systems is based in the idea that the psyche is comprised of many discrete parts, who all function as parts of a larger whole. With Internal Family Systems therapy, we establish a safe, sacred space to get to know the many parts of you.
Parts who jumped in to protect you when times got tough.
Parts who swoop in to distract when wounds get triggered.
Protective parts can be intense. Some of them, you might not like very much.
But when you look under the surface, you learn that protective parts have positive intent.
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It might go something like this:
Where you felt undervalued by your family of origin, a high achieving part took on the role of excelling in everything so that you’d never have to feel worthless again.
Where your emotional needs went unmet, an independent part took on the role of keeping people at arms length to prevent you from getting hurt again.
At the time they first stepped in, protective parts were like superheroes. They stepped in to help you survive what you went through.
The trouble is, a lot of those protective parts continue those same adaptive strategies, long after they actually serve you. In your present life, if protective parts continue to run the show, they can keep you in a state of constant vigilance, limiting your capacity to enjoy life and to experience healthy relationship.
So, why do protective parts of us continue to run the show?
It’s a good question! You’re grown up! Things have changed so much since that time. Why do you still experience those habitual responses?
There’s a reason for that too, and it goes something like this.
When a protective part steps in to get us through a rough patch, another, more vulnerable part takes on the burden of that hurt. And because hurting is uncomfortable, rather than making the space to tend and befriend those feelings, we tend to shut them away. Like children, tucked away in secret corners of our psyches, those exiled feelings live a shadowy existence. Beyond the reach of conscious awareness, those young parts with their hurt and unmet needs are the deep reason behind our unease, and our protective parts work overtime to protect them.
Fortunately, it is possible to shift these dynamics!
IFS offers a pathway by which to get to know all the different parts of you, to tend to those wounded inner children, and recalibrate your inner system to experience so much more harmony and peace.
Because beyond these parts lies something else – something within you that, in spite of all you went through, could never be broken.
A key to healing
It’s been called by many names. Your higher self. Divine essence. The “you that is not a part”. In IFS, we call it “Self Energy.”
Self energy is the capacity for calm, care, curiosity, and other nurturing qualities that, in our best moments, we all have the potential to embody.
Sometimes you might feel very in touch with your Self Energy, and sometimes you might not feel it at all. That’s how it is for most of us. We move in and out of our capacity to self-regulate, and with that, our connection to our own Self Energy can seem to come and go.
But always, under everything, it is there. With practice, we can deepen our capacity to tap into it.
IFS provides the container to do this. In IFS, we work with the power of Self Energy to help the parts of you that need that help.
More about IFS
Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic healing modality created by the psychologist Dick Schwartz. Psychological research has proven its effectiveness, earning it the status of an evidence based therapy. As a spiritual counseling modality, IFS is accessible to persons of all faith traditions, as well as those who do not identify within a faith tradition.
As an IFS informed spiritual counselor, I have completed more than 120 hours of training and supervision with IFSCA, supported by personal IFS therapy of my own. I further bring to this work seven years of training and experience as a spiritual counselor in the healing modalities of Depth Hypnosis and Applied Shamanic Counseling. For a more comprehensive description of my background and training, go here.
Financial Exchange
Let’s start with a free fifteen minute call. In this call, we can discuss your specific situation, and I can answer any questions you may have.
After that, my general rate is $145 for a single session. However, you save when you purchase multiple sessions at once
New Clients – Three Session Package, for use on your first three sessions – $300
Returning Clients – Three Session Package, (valid for one year after purchase) – $390
I also reserve a number of spots for sliding scale.
It is recommended that you start with the package of three sessions, since this allows sufficient time to establish the foundational practices necessary for the work.
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What’s my next step?
If you’d like to explore working together, don’t hesitate to reach out.
To see whether what I offer is a fit for you, I offer a free fifteen minute call.
I look forward to connecting with you!