How IFS Approaches common challenges

Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives.  When we learn to live from our Authentic Self, we recover motivation, perspective, and joy that was once a given in our life. 

With IFS, we can welcome, and begin to understand how each of the parts that feel these emotions are trying to help us.  We can recognize their protective roles or heal them if they are stuck in the past.

Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances.  IFS holds that all of us have experienced some form of trauma in our lives, but we are not diagnosed (as in the medical model) as having a life sentence of less functional living.   We may have parts that feel caught in and display more extreme ways of coping than other parts due to their attempts to stay safe, promote balance in the system or heal.  Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that parts can hold that can linger after traumatic events. IFS can help you center in your Self energy, which is unconditionally loving and compassionate towards parts that have experienced trauma.  Burdens of extreme emotion, outdated beliefs and outmoded behavior patterns can be released, and traumatized parts can heal.  

 I am privileged to work with clients all over the United States, as I am not limited like a licensed mental health professional to practice in only one or two states. Meeting only online allows for connection across the miles.  My IFS training qualifies me to work with the many challenges faced by my clients and having supervision and continuing education within the IFS professional community keeps my skills sharp.  I work continuously with my own parts, and have become more and more Self-led in my life and my work.  Online sessions are held from the safety of your own home at a time that is mutually convenient.