IFS Intensives
IFS Therapy
Therapy For High Achievers
LGPC Supervision
FAQs
Therapy For Anxiety & Perfectionism
Therapy For Therapists & Helping Professionals
IFS Therapy
IFS Intensive
Therapy For High Achievers & High Responsibility Adults
FAQs
Therapy For Anxiety & Perfectionism
Therapy For Therapists & Helping Professionals
LGPC Supervision
IFS is recognized by SAMHSA as an evidence-based practice and has been extensively researched for the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns.
The Three Types of Parts
Exiles: Young, vulnerable parts that carry pain, shame, or trauma from earlier experiences.
Managers: Parts that work hard to keep you functional: perfectionism, over-achieving, planning, controlling.
Firefighters: Parts that react when pain surfaces: numbing, rage, distraction, avoidance.
For high achievers, many protective parts developed early because survival, in many environments, required it. The part that over-prepares. The part that never lets anyone see you struggle. The part that reads every room before it relaxes. IFS doesn't pathologize these patterns. It honors where they came from and creates space for them to finally lay down their armor.
IFS creates space for every part of your story: your history, your family systems, your intergenerational patterns without requiring you to explain or justify them.
The hypervigilance, the over-functioning, the people-pleasing... these parts had reasons. We work with them, not against them.
The goal is a life led by your calm, grounded Self, not by the fear, urgency, or exhaustion of your protective parts.
We Notice What's Present
We Get To Know Your Parts
We Build Trust From the Inside
We update old stories
We start by getting curious about what's showing up. For example, an emotion, a pattern, a reaction. Rather than analyzing it from the outside, we gently turn toward it.
We identify the part that's present and explore what it's doing, what it's afraid of, and what it's been carrying — often for years or decades.
As parts feel understood rather than judged, they begin to relax. Your Self... curious, calm, compassionate, becomes more available to lead.
Many parts are still operating on old information...old threats, old wounds. We help them see that things have changed, and that they no longer have to work so hard.
✓ You've been in therapy before but feel like something deeper hasn't shifted yet
✓ You understand your patterns intellectually but still can't stop them
✓ You're a high-achiever who struggles to slow down or ask for help
✓ You carry stress, anxiety, or heaviness that doesn't match your external life
✓ You want a therapist who understands the full weight of what you carry, not just the surface presenting problem
✓ You're ready to do deep, lasting work, not just manage symptoms