Licensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC
IFS is a lens to view therapy where one's internal conflicts are made explicit as sub-personalities and engaged with from a place of love and fairness (titled Self, in the theory). This approach can make sense of longstanding patterns of behavior, resolve feeling "stuck" in various places in life, and let one heal and move forward with a new sense of wholeness.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, NCC
Parts work is extremely powerful and allows a deeper inner healing experience than many other modalities I have worked with. I incorporate the body & spirit into my work with clients. I am a believer that the there is no separation between mind and body when it comes to mental healthcare. Check out the IFS website more more: https://ifs-institute.com/about-us
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW, LICSW
I am a certified IFS therapist who has taken up to Level 2 of IFS training. This means that I have completed over 180 hours of advanced training in the IFS model and demonstrated competency to the IFS institute. I also am involved in helping train other clinicians, and serve as a program assistant for Level 1 trainings through the IFS institute.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
LMFT, LPC
I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapeutic approach that explores the dynamics within your mind. In our sessions, we'll work together to understand and navigate the various parts of yourself, addressing concerns such as anxiety, protection mechanisms, and inner conflicts. IFS provides a supportive journey to help you achieve balance, self-awareness, and healing. If you're seeking a personalized and empowering therapeutic experience, I am here to assist you on your journey.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
NCC, LPC
There is a wise, core 'Self' to us all, along with other 'parts' which try to help, but can get forced into unhealthy roles in our lives. Parts associated with trauma are often pushed down or 'exiled' out of awareness. When they do emerge, other protective parts try to suppress them, blocking access to core Self, which could help them heal. Together, we can help all your parts access your core Self and work both together, and for you in an adaptive and sustainable way.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
LMFT-A
When it comes to understanding your own unique trauma, triggers, and inner child, there is no theory like IFS! Once we building a trusting therapeutic connection, we can utilize IFS to empower you to access the compassionate, centered and wise being that you are. Once we work together to guide you to trust your inner parts, we will watch the triggers melt away.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC
Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps us explore the roles we adopted as children and how these roles might influence our current relationships. This approach fosters compassion and understanding for our inner child, allowing us to address and heal past wounds. By integrating this understanding, we can improve our present relationships and create healthier, more fulfilling connections.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC
For those who have completed or are interested in taking a training on IFS. Learn or practice how to explain parts, recognize when parts are present, and help clients find more compassion for their parts. Also focus on how to bring your full self to IFS in session, not just the IFS process.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC
I have completed the official Level 1 training program for this model of therapy. I have also completed several continuing education courses, done extensive readings, and done IFS-specific consultation. This model appeals to me for its non-pathologizing stance and built-in supports for client autonomy.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
M.Ed.
Parts Work (Internal Family Systems) includes the stance that there is an inherently good, wise, and health-seeking core Self to each person. It says that we are also made up of multiple other parts (inner critic, inner parent, inner perfectionist, etc.) and that these parts get trapped in behaviors and thought patterns from the past that no longer serve us. The goal in Parts Work is to help those parts “take a break” and instead be led by our core wise Self.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, LMHC
Internal Family Systems or IFS is a unique for of therapy that focuses on your internal "world" and how you interact with the different facets of yourself. It can be a helpful model to better understand patterns you find yourself in and how to change your inner landscape. I have completed Level 1 training through the IFS institute as well as participate in ongoing trainings, supervision, continuing education and practice. IFS is a wonderful therapy option to heal from the inside out.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC (OR), LMHC (WA), EMDR Certified
IFS is a way of looking at the different parts that make up each one of us. When we get to know those parts, both the protective ones and the ones that are hurting, we can help them heal. IFS helps us get to know our Self and understand the capacity our Self has to heal those parts and let the protectors move on to find other jobs.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist. Providing evidence based, trauma informed therapy (with a social justice lens) to individual adults & couples
IFS believes that each of us is comprised of many psychological "parts", each with valuable qualities to help us thrive & protect us from pain. Each of us also has a core Self that can provide these "parts" with compassionate guidance which heals us & elevates our self esteem. As a Certified IFS therapist I use this evidence based model to support you on this journey. I also use IFS personally for my own growth & healing to insure that I can bring my whole Self to the therapy sessions with you.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
I have completed level 1 training in Internal Family Systems through the IFS institute. In addition to trainings I keep current on IFS through readings and online education.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
MA, LPC-A, LPF
IFS is a non-pathologizing form of therapy and embraces the many "parts" of us as natural facets of the psyche - aspects of ourselves which long to be known, understood, and healed. IFS is also a fantastic tool for psychedelic integration, as psychedelic experiences can often unlock or reveal unfamiliar, challenging, or empowering parts of us. Read my full article on IFS and Psychedelics, featured on Psychedelics Today: https://tinyurl.com/IFS-Psychedelics
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
MFT
Throughout our lives, we learn behaviors to cope and feel safe. Perhaps a part of you became a perfectionist to protect a part that fears rejection. Over time, patterns like this can become entrenched, inhibiting our growth and even causing the very pain they were meant to prevent. I can help you identify these patterns and the parts of yourself they protect. Through curiosity and compassion, we can loosen their grip and even befriend them.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
MA, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
We are made up of many parts that guide us, protect us, and walk along side us throughout our lives and relationships. Sometimes, these parts are loud while other important parts remain hidden, yet to be given an invitation to come out of the shadows and join us in our life journey. By engaging in inner child work, exploration of our parts, and promoting the Self, we can come closer to who we are, what we need, and how we access belonging in the intricacies of our internal and external world.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
QMHP
I frequently utilize Internal Family Systems (IFS) style parts work to increase understanding of current patterns of coping and areas of internal conflict or tension.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, NCC, MS
This approach helps you explore and heal the different parts of yourself that may feel anxious, critical, or overwhelmed. I’ve had advanced training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), I am not yet Level 1 certified so I focus on parts work with clients. By understanding and caring for these parts, you can experience healing from anxiety, self-criticism, and trauma. My work is rooted in creating a safe space for this inner exploration, allowing you to feel more whole and at peace.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
Oregon LPC, Washington LMHC
My IFS-based training is through Trauma-Informed Stabilization Therapy, designed by Janina Fisher, PhD, who says: “TIST...was developed to provide a trauma-informed approach to the challenges of treating self-destructive behavior. Based on theoretical principles drawn from the neuroscience research on trauma and structural dissociation theory, TIST offers a treatment approach that integrates mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I an certified in TIST.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
IFS is my primary modality for individual counseling because it is both highly effective and relatively easy for most people to work with, across a range of issues. It can help bring clarity to all the myriad parts of a complex human being dealing with complex life issues. I find that IFS also supports differentiation of self, which is key to personal freedom and relationship success.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
MFT-Associate
Who makes up the parts of your internal whole?
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
MS
I have read several books and pursued my own learning about the Internal Family Systems approach. I've used it with clients and seen them find healing from acute trauma backgrounds. Conceptually, the IFS approach aligns with my values and beliefs around how we can change and heal.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, CRC
Using IFS, we partner to explore your inner world and get to know your parts of self. Though they are all pieces of the whole, there are parts that protect, parts that defend, parts that lead, and parts that get exiled away. Through this approach, powerful change happens. We can increase self-awareness, resolve inner conflict, heal pain, change destructive behavior and gain flexibility.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW LICSW CADC-I
My work with IFS goes beyond the limits of most practitioners because of the way that I deepen it with my training in clinical hypnosis, sensorimotor psychotherapy, and ego state therapy. IFS allows the engagement of self as interconnected "parts" which can allow for a very humanizing, empowering, graceful, and sometimes almost magical experience in therapy.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
IFS is a transformative therapy model empowering clients to explore their inner world with compassion. By understanding and integrating various parts of the self, clients heal trauma and foster resilience. As a therapist, IFS equips me with tools to guide clients through this process so they can better understand themselves and their relationships.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
MA
IFS believes our minds consist of sub-personalities like a "work part", "romantic part" or even a "self-critical part". Understanding these parts is key, and through IFS therapy, we can cultivate self-leadership to guide them in healthy ways. Compassion for these parts builds trust and leads to a more integrated self.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
M.A. in Professional Mental Health Counseling
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
Masters In Counseling
IFS (Internal Family Systems) is an incredible modality that helps us better understand our many parts and discover what they are trying to protect us from. "Parts Work" allows us to navigate and understand our conflicting needs and impulses. I love using IFS as a framework to foster understanding and non-judgment toward these parts. In a culture where self-criticism and self-hatred are so prevalent, IFS offers a powerful counterbalance— a way to gently facilitate change rather than force it.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, NCC
When we know that all of our parts are welcome, we can let the Self -- our core part -- lead. We all know what it's like to feel torn about a decision, we feel two or three ways about something and aren't sure which part to listen to. IFS helps you to slow down and hear what each of your parts wants for you, and how to honor each one as part of your internal "family." Many clients find IFS helps them feel more empowered and in the driver's seat of their own life in a new way.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
PhD, LPC
Self-energy can be a very powerful way to access healing and wisdom. I'm an IFS-informed therapist, and IFS fits in well with my experiental, somatic, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy training. IFS views having internal parts as normal and natural. In this view, all parts have wisdom and an important 'part' to play, and IFS helps people harmonize their inner relationships with parts, the Self, and the 'inner family.' I love IFS and I find that it works really well for some folks.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
M.A.in Counseling, EMDR trained, Licensed Acupuncturist
When we don’t understand our own behavior and feel frustrated that we can’t immediately change, IFS is often helpful. By understanding the parts of ourselves that try to manage and protect us, we can often find more ease, self-empathy, and motivation to change our lives.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
MSW, LCSW
Trained in IFS skills integration in sessions
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LICSW
When we grow up in tumultuous environments, our brains develop adaptations to help us survive. These adaptations become "parts" of ourselves that can stay on overdrive long into our adulthood, sometimes keeping us stuck in old relational patterns. Internal Family Systems is a powerful way to bring curiosity and compassion to these parts. When we offer acceptance and understanding to the parts of ourselves that we have been most critical of, they no longer have the same control over our lives.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW/LICSW
I often use a therapy approach called Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is centered around the idea that we all have different internal parts or aspects of ourselves that interact in ways that can be helpful or harmful. These parts can be like voices within us. For example, some parts might constantly overthink things or criticize us, thinking they're protecting us from possible harm.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
I am a Level 1 trained IFS therapist. IFS conceptualizes individuals as having a system of "parts" within themselves. You might have an "inner critic" part of yourself, for example, that has held onto extreme beliefs that try to manage you. IFS is an experiential therapy that is designed to have your "Self" identify different parts of you that may be holding onto burdens and hurts from the past and build relationships with these parts to lead to healing and self-understanding.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist
MA, MCFT Associate
I am also working on official certifications for Internal Family Systems therapy. Like DBT, IFS can be a very powerful framework and can help folx process deep trauma, get to know themselves better, develop more self compassion and work through challenges including (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, anger/rage, panic, PTSD, trauma and much more.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MS LPC
Also known as "Parts work", I have been practicing IFS for the past 4 years and have completely found my home in this theory. It uses such organic processes to identify different components or parts of your inner world. Some parts are protective in nature while other parts hold burdens and past traumas. IFS is a great process to help not only heal your underlying wounds but also incorporate the protectors along the way.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
NCC, CADC-I
I have completed trainings and utilize IFS through a majority of my clientele with excellent results.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
M.Ed. | NCC
I utilize Parts and Memory Therapy (PMT), a modality similar to Internal Family Systems (IFS), to help clients release emotional burdens from the past and develop healthier internal dynamics. Through PMT, clients are guided to connect with and heal the 'parts' of themselves that hold onto difficult emotions or memories, leading to a greater sense of inner peace and wholeness. I am currently working toward becoming a certified PMT therapist.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist
LMFT
When working with individuals, I pull primarily from an IFS perspective. I have advanced training in IFS and Inner Relationship Focusing (which I call somatic parts work). Together we will invite your parts and identify them as messengers to guide your healing. We will use ritual, art, story telling and more to explore all the parts of yourself that have a voice. Our work will dive into your body story, uncovering your inherent worthiness and wisdom.
View ProfileStudent Counselor
I have completed training in IFS therapy, an approach that allows people to identify and engage with different aspects of themselves, fostering self-compassion and healing. By facilitating dialogue between the core "Self" and various internal parts, IFS promotes integration and emotional balance. This model has been effective in addressing issues like trauma, anxiety, and self-esteem, enhancing personal growth and relationships.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MS, LPC
IFS posits that the mind is made up of multiple parts that can take on extreme roles or sub-personalities. Each part has its own perspective and memories and underlying the part is the person’s true Self, or core self. The goal of IFS is to heal wounded parts and achieve mental balance. In IFS, we are not aiming to remove any parts of ourselves that may be destructive; all parts are welcome and deserve to be healed. It is a great, non-pathological approach to mental health.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
MA
I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) for the treatment of trauma.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
I am part of a professional development group where we have focused on IFS for several years. I have taken various IFS trainings as well, though am not officially certified.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
C3730
Through curiosity, compassion, and a gentle courage, we can look inward and cultivate a network of healing relationships within our very own system.
View ProfileSomatic Practitioner
PhD
I work within an IFS model. This model helps to identify parts, un-blend them, and then find access to self-energy to provide relief to burdened managers and exiles.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MS, NCC
IFS is an evidenced based therapeutic model that seeks to support understanding the complexities of each individual through their parts. Through this work, we seek to extend curiosity, compassion, and care towards our unique parts that make us whole. In my work as a trauma therapist and as a client, I have found the IFS model a deeply validating, normalizing, and gentle way to work through processing trauma.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
M.A., LMFT
I use IFS (also referred to as "parts" work) with clients in order to heal wounded parts of ourselves and come to rely more on our immutable core selves. The goal with IFS is to help clients become more compassionate, curious, clear, creative, calm, confident, courageous, and connected.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
C8779
I am IFS informed and incorporate it into my practice. This therapeutic approach promotes self-discovery and inner harmony, empowering clients to integrate fragmented aspects of their psyche and cultivate greater emotional resilience and well-being through their journey of healing.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, NCC
Internal Family Systems suggests that our inner world is comprised of many varied parts, each with different opinions, beliefs and energies. It also suggests we hold within a calm, wise and loving Core Self. The work of IFS is to heal the wounded parts and restore balance within our system by attending to our often child-like parts which need loving care.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
Rather than having one solid personality, we have multiple internal parts or subpersonalities that developed to help us cope with intense situations and have taken on extreme thoughts, feelings or behaviors. This can look like getting flooded suddenly by anxiety, an internal debate that goes in circles, a highly critical voice, an addictive behavior, or a physical sensation. With IFS, we work to get to know and appreciate our parts so they can take on more helpful roles in our current life.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
PhD, LPC/LMHC, ATR
I was trained in IFS in 2012 and have used it since. I love working with inner parts and a big part of my approach is cultivating inner wisdom and connection to self.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
I really enjoy using "parts" point of view in the therapeutic space. I find that getting to know your parts and how they show up can be a doorway to healing.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
MS, MFTA
I am a Level 1 IFS practicioner who loves to use the work with all forms of trauma, especially intergenerational and historical trauma. Parts work can be a powerful tool in the toolkit for helping to unstick difficult feelings
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
LMFT T1554
Most of us have some ambivalence about most things because we have multiple motivations (to succeed, to be happy, to be liked for example). IFS is a way to reach consensus within ourselves, particularly if we experienced trauma.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, CADC I
I find Internal Family Systems really helpful to better understand and have compassion for all of our parts, as we are all multiple. I work with IFS to connect with protective parts, exiled trauma parts, and managerial parts to create better communication with all parts of you.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, M.S.
Completed PESI's intensive training on IFS in 2020, have been practicing since then. Continuing to learn about somatic IFS and the value of bottom-up processing. Also interested in using this modality for KAP and psychedelic work.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
MS, NCC, LPC-A
I often work from an Internal Family Systems perspective. This really just means that I welcome all the contradictory parts of a person that may show up in navigating life's struggles. We work together to understand both the parts you know well and the parts that you might often try to avoid. Better understanding all the parts of yourself, and having compassion for them can be a powerful first step in healing, finding peace and a path forward.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
M.S, NCC
I practice Internal Family System (IFS), a therapeutic modality recognizing the mind's diverse sub-personalities or parts. Trauma and attachment injuries may force these parts into undesirable roles, burdening them with intense emotions, memories, and sensations that get locked away. The aim is to foster harmony and balance, with a central focus on wholeness in IFS, where all parts are welcomed and valued.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC
I have been using IFS for several years and am on track to become certified.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
Professional Counselor Associate
I am formally trained in Internal Family Systems by the IFS Institute (Level 1 827 Beverly, MA) and participate in a somatically oriented IFS consultation group.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
Internal Family Systems (IFS) uses Family Systems theory—the idea that individuals cannot be fully understood in isolation from the family unit—to develop techniques and strategies to effectively address issues within a person’s internal community or family. This evidence-based approach assumes each individual possesses a variety of sub-personalities, or “parts,” and attempts to get to know each of these parts better to achieve healing.
View ProfileProfessional Counselor Associate
MA, CAGS, QMHP
I have completed the IFS Institute Online Circle 6 month Program, as well as IFS Level 1 Training. This is one of my favorite evidenced based therapies, and continue to do trainings and certification programs with the IFS Institute.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
I have completed multiple trainings in IFS, including Level 1 through the IFS Institute. To me, IFS is a non-pathologizing, openhearted approach to the complexity inside of each of us. Rather than assuming we are monoliths, IFS embraces all of our parts, whether they are ambivalent, in conflict, or rooted in the past in a tender, empowering, compassionate way.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
MA, LMFT
Sometimes it feels like we have many conflicting parts of our internal world. This can lead to feeling a lot of confusion and self doubt. Using Internal Family Systems, I can help you untangle what may feel like a jumbled mess in your mind so that you can get to know your true Self and all the “parts” of yourself, especially the protective parts of you that can sometimes get in the way of your goals.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC
While I am not certified as an IFS therapist, I have educated myself extensively on this transformative therapeutic approach.
View ProfileMarriage and Family Therapist Associate
MA, Marriage & Family Therapist Associate
I utilize parts work and aspects of IFS extensively in my work. We all contain multitudes, as the saying goes. Our inner protectors can use a variety of tactics to keep us safe, but these can often cause us trouble in other ways. In therapy we work to bring insight and voice to those multitudes we contain within us, and we also, importantly, work to build a stronger connection to your core self to allow you more agency to take back the reins and develop self-trust.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
MA, LPC
An approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses sub-personalities/families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such as anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. The sub-personalities are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self. I also utilize Janina Fisher's Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment model that is influenced by IFS.
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Hakomi Therapist (CHT)
View ProfileLicensed Professional Counselor
LPC, LMHC
IFS is an evidenced based therapy that explores the "parts" of us to explore and resolve internal conflicts, depression, trauma, and anxiety. Within this framework, we increase self-compassion and value our natural protective strengths. I am certified in Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), trauma informed and integrative approach that includes mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, IFS, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
View ProfileLicensed Clinical Social Worker
L8580
I frequently use Internal Family Systems (IFS) in my work with clients. By helping clients better understand the different parts of themselves and how these parts are sometimes negatively impacting their day to day lives. Often our parts are developed in child hood to 'protect' us, however, as we grow up, the types of protection these parts offer, become hindrances and hurtful to ourselves. Identifying these parts, showing love and compassion to them and then giving them a better 'job' is key.
View ProfileLicensed Marriage Family Therapist
LPC, LMFT, Certified Sex Informed Couples Counselor
I have taken several self-study trainings in IFS and incorporate it into my practice to heal parts of ourselves that have been neglected due to trauma.
View Profile