IFS

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS is a radical and paradoxical way of approaching therapy. For some clients, it is unlike anything they have tried before.

While some treatments encourage you to try to control your thoughts and emotions better, IFS encourages you to have conversations with them. This is because we believe the personality is naturally split up into “parts.”

"You can think of parts as little people inside you. Each has its own perspective, beliefs, feelings, memories, and motivations. You may have heard of the "inner critic" and the "inner child," the most famous of our parts. But these are simple concepts that only begin to touch the richness and complexity of our inner life. Our inner family may include a lonely baby, a wise mentor, an angry child, a stern mother, a calm mediator, a magician, a happy animal, a closed-off protector, and so on." - Jay Earley

Learn More about IFS Therapy

• For a full demo (between two experienced IFS therapists), check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIhczaF9W8

• Read this chapter from the seminal book, The Body Keeps the Score.

• Check out this article (Weekend University), or this longer and more in-depth article (Medium).

• Check out the first chapter of “Introduction to Internal Family Systems” here.

• Read a transcript of an IFS session.

• Listen to an Interview with Richard Schwartz on IFS and relationships.

• Check out Instagram (The Ordinary Sacred; Brookedbyka); there are also several IFS podcasts (The One Inside).