IFS

  • Internal Family Systems therapy's purpose is to empower us to find insights in to our own psychodynamics.
  • Your parts are naturally endowed with qualities such as joy, freedom, perceptiveness, and creativity, but these have been lost because of childhood wounds.1
  • We build up protective, defensive parts of ourselves in response to trauma and these don't serve us well as adults

  1. Earley, Jay, and Richard C. Schwartz. Self Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, a New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy. Second Edition, Pattern System Books, 2009. ↩