What a session looks like
Sessions usually start with whatever is loudest — the anxiety, the self-criticism, the urge to shut down. Instead of trying to argue with it or get rid of it, your therapist will invite you to turn towards it and get curious: how old does it feel, what is it afraid would happen if it stopped.
Answers often arrive as images, sensations or a sense of age rather than words, and that is normal. Much of the session is quiet. You are not performing insight, and nothing is dragged out of you — protective parts are asked for permission, not overruled.
Who it tends to help
IFS suits people who feel at war with themselves: who can name exactly what they want to do differently and find something in them refusing. It is a natural fit for long-standing patterns, inner criticism, and complex or childhood trauma, where the usual advice to be kinder to yourself has never once worked.
It also helps when shame is in the room. The premise that no part of you is bad — only stuck in a job it took on too young — tends to land differently than being told your reaction is irrational.
How it fits alongside other work
IFS is rarely the only thing happening. It sits easily alongside somatic work, EMDR and relational therapy, and many of our clinicians move between them within a single course of therapy depending on what a week brings.
Several of our team trained through IFS Levels 1–3, so this is a model held with real depth here rather than borrowed language.
Our approach
We use IFS to create a non-shaming space where every part of you is welcome. Guided by curiosity, we help you lead from Self, so protective and wounded parts can soften and heal — a natural fit for complex trauma and long-standing patterns.
Why connect with us
Our team includes therapists trained through IFS Levels 1–3. If you feel at war with yourself, or the same reactions keep running the show, IFS offers a kinder path forward — a non-shaming space where every part of you is welcome, including the ones you like least.