Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
I work with passionate professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs looking to heal from trauma and realize their full potential. I’m an Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist (Level 3) offering online individual sessions. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy honors the multitudes you contain. It moves away from the outdated monolithic view of the mind and embraces our natural multiplicity as divine beings having a human experience. It’s a cutting-edge, evidence-based, psycho-spiritual therapy approach developed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz.
IFS therapy invites you to find your Self, brave your inner wilderness, and befriend the vulnerable parts of you lurking in the shadows. By healing these vulnerable parts in a safe, non-overwhelming way, you gain access to hidden treasures buried deep within your wounds. You create a home inside yourself from which you can experience more joy, love, peace, and vitality. IFS therapy helps you reparent your inner child with self-compassion so you can be free from your past and live in the moment. It’s an experiential, constraint-releasing model helping you let go of what weighs you down so the natural, effortless flow of Being can be restored within you. You can be at ease in yourself, your relationships, and the world at large. You can navigate your life knowing you are expressing your full potential.
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IFS Coaching for Wholehearted Living
I coach high-performers seeking to infuse their day-to-day with wholehearted living. “Wholehearted Living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the Courage, Compassion, and Connection to wake up in the morning and think, no matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough,” explains researcher and storyteller Brené Brown.
If therapy is about discovering who you are and cultivating a loving relationship with your Self, coaching is about embracing the possibility of who you could be if you put your gifts into loving action. You may be fueled by a profound drive to be the best version of yourself and make the most positive impact you can without having to sacrifice your wellbeing, peace of mind, and vitality in the process. You may long to experience increased joy, aliveness, and purpose without the stress, overwhelm, and burnout.
I invite coaching clients to go on a journey of actualizing their visions and making their potential manifest in the external world while remaining connected to their authentic selves and innate resilience. Coaching can help you let go of self-limiting blocks, embrace the elixirs along your hero’s journey, and serve a greater good (however you define it). When you work, love, and lead with wholeheartedness, the obstacle becomes the way and joy of living becomes a reality.
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Recover from Complex Trauma (CPTSD)
I specialize in treating high-functioning, high-achieving adult survivors of complex trauma and complex PTSD. Complex trauma is a consequence of chronic, deep, interpersonal wounding most often resulting from overt and/or covert violations in early attachment relationships. Complex trauma is traditionally viewed as a life sentence or a tragedy that impairs functioning in the survivor’s personal, social, and work lives. However, this is not always the case. In fact, complex trauma can lead to hyper-functioning as well as great achievements and contributions worthy of awe and admiration. These survivors can be passionate professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives.
I work with individuals who live with this paradox—they thrive outwardly in many ways yet struggle to survive in the psycho-spiritual dimension of their life. These individuals are like the walking wounded. They carry primal wounds that are invisible to those around them and even to themselves. They are masters of their hyper-functioning, orderly, busy, external lives and slaves to their chaotic, unknown, mystical yet mystifying internal lives.
My clients belong to this “Walking Wounded Tribe.” You know you belong to the Walking Wounded Tribe if you have ticked off many boxes on your life check list yet still deal with overwhelm and feelings of being stuck, lost, empty, numb, and unfulfilled. Your trauma has propelled you upward on an ascent of success and achievement in the visible world. All the while you suffer an invisible spiraling descent into the Shadow Underworld. The Walked Wounded need a customized healing process that honors their outward journey of success and their inward journey toward deep healing and transformation. Their unique needs are often overlooked by traditional psychotherapy and even trauma therapies due to their high achieving tendencies.
I offer integrative trauma therapy that includes Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Jungian Psychology for those high functioning adult survivors of complex trauma and CPTSD looking to heal and find their aliveness.
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Release trauma from the body
I work with highly intellectual, analytically-minded individuals who feel disconnected from their selves and their bodies as a result of complex trauma. You live from the neck up and forget you have a body much of the time. You intellectualize and analyze everything, dissociate or “numb out” quite easily, and you stay busy and productive. You struggle with being present, still, and at peace. You have a hard time stopping, resting, and listening to your body and inner world. The body does keep the score and often times it is the one who says “no” first. This is especially true when we are unable to set boundaries and show up for our own vulnerability and the wounded parts of our selves yearning to be seen, heard, known, and loved.
Your body can say “no” through various psychosomatic symptoms, autoimmune disorders, gastrointestinal issues, skin problems, brain fog, chronic fatigue, etc. The body becomes a battleground on which the dramas of our unresolved traumas play out. Fortunately, you can heal and your body can become a sacred home to return to. You can release the trauma from your body and discover how to be present, still, and at peace. You can be in profound connection to yourself and others through your body while experiencing your joy and aliveness.
I have trained in various body-oriented trauma therapies including Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I am also a certified Yoga teacher and believe the body is a sacred, living, breathing organism that we can honor and learn from as divine beings having a human, biological experience.
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