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IFS parts work is the practice at the centre of Internal Family Systems therapy. It means getting to know the different parts that make up your inner world, often grouped into three roles: exiles, managers, and firefighters. This kind of…
Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a talk therapy approach that treats anxiety, trauma, and PTSD as the work of protective inner parts rather than as flaws to fix. Saalvio's clinical team offers IFS therapy for trauma and related concerns…
You have a part of you that stays steady even on your hardest days. IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapy calls this your core Self, and it describes it using eight qualities known as the 8 C's of Self in IFS…
Internal Family Systems (IFS) uses two memorable frameworks to guide the work: the 6 F's, a six-step process for getting to know a part of you, and the 8 C's and 5 P's, the qualities that show up when you…
You do not have to understand every part of yourself to start. You just have to be willing to sit down and listen to one part first. Doing IFS self therapy at home means learning to notice the different parts…
IFS, CBT, and EMDR are three different kinds of therapy that can help you feel better. IFS looks at the different parts inside you. CBT helps you notice and change thoughts that hurt you. EMDR helps your brain work through…
IFS therapy, short for Internal Family Systems therapy, is a talk therapy model developed by Richard Schwartz. It sees the mind as made up of different inner parts, each one carrying its own feelings and history, all guided by a…
You have been pushing through. Long days, a full mental load, not enough rest. And now your body feels off. Maybe you wake up already tired. Maybe your stomach turns on Sunday nights. Maybe you keep getting headaches you cannot…
Have you ever felt like one therapy session a week is not quite enough, but staying overnight in a hospital feels like far too much? That in-between place is real, and it is more common than you might think. You…
Some thoughts arrive sounding like facts. "I always fail." "Something bad is about to happen." "I cannot handle this." You may have carried a few of them for so long that you stopped questioning whether they are even true. If…
