I use the Internal Family Systems model to help clients:

-Identify what is not working in their life and how they want it to be different

-Identify parts of them/defenses/layers of self-protection that are keeping them from living the fullest version of themself

-Understand how, when, where, and why those defenses came to be needed

-Release burdens and beliefs they’ve been carrying that no longer serve them

I use Intimacy From The Inside Out to help couples:

-Respectfully engage in difficult conversations that can often spiral into anger, hurt, and disconnection

-Track their most entrenched conflicts (e.g. finances, sex, division of labor, parenting styles, relationships with in-laws) so they can feel equally heard, understood, and validated

-Connect to the vulnerable feelings and needs beneath their defenses

-Find the courage to speak for those needs and desires to their partner in a way that makes their partner more available to listen and want to support those needs

-Learn to take a pause, attenuate to what is getting activated inside of them and then courageously, but calmly, speak for that deeper need to their partner

-I love that moment in the session when both partner’s nervous systems have settled and they feel safe enough to connect and create a relationship that serves them both

-Identify protective parts that are blocking you from being full present with your clients

-Learn to unblend from parts that hijack you during sessions

-Explore what your clients’ issues and parts trigger in you

-Experience how bringing an IFS lens to your practice and client cases can make your work more effective, sustainable, meaningful and deeply satisfying

-Gain more access to your core confidence, courage, compassion, creativity, clarity, connectedness, curiosity and calm as a therapist

-Receive case consultation for complex cases that have you stuck

-Contract me to provide an IFS workshop to your group practice or agency