Heal Your Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy
Within each of us exist sub-personalities or “parts” that make up our mental landscape. Some parts harbor creativity, confidence, and joy while others hold pain, fear, and destructive beliefs. Left unhealed, these wounded parts can wreak havoc in our lives through self-sabotage, anxiety, depression, and interpersonal challenges.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a compassionate, effective form of therapy that helps you connect with, understand, and integrate your fragmented inner parts.
What is the IFS Model?
IFS VIEWS THE PSYCHE AS CONSISTING OF THREE GROUPS:
Self
Your spiritual core that is eternal, all-encompassing, and possesses innate qualities of confidence, curiosity, compassion, calmness and clarity. The Self is who you really are at your essence.
Exiles
Exiles are young and vulnerable parts that unconsciously hold pain, trauma, grief, shame, loneliness, negative beliefs and burdens absorbed in childhood and over your lifespan.
Protectors
Parts that work to shield your exiles from pain or stop pain when their hurts get triggered. Managers prevent you from feeling the exiles pain. Firefighters react to stop the exiles pain once the get hurt.
My Approach
In our IFS sessions, I'll guide you through compassionate self-discovery to meet the different parts of yourself — the protective parts working hard to keep you safe and the tender, wounded parts they're guarding. We'll explore how these parts show up in your thoughts, feelings, and body, then use visualization to connect with them directly. As we build trust with your protective parts, they'll feel safe enough to allow access to the hurt places they've been shielding.
Together, we'll help your wounded parts release stored pain and receive the compassion they've always needed. This healing process naturally restores your parts to their essential joy and confidence, allowing your authentic Self to lead.
Get started with Sige, today.
I offer a FREE 20 minute consultation. Let’s get acquainted and see if we are a good match to work together.