IFS Therapy is Inner Parts work and it is a way of looking at an issue as an inner personification, or as we call it, an inner part.  Really its just that voice in your head that tells you "that thing," whatever that is, in relation to the issue or pattern that in concerning to you. When you ask, "what is IFS Therapy?" It's just the process of the IFS Therapist guiding you inwardly to find that part of yourself that is the origin of that inner voice, or inner difficult feeling, or pattern. And the great thing about IFS Therapy, is that the model has a long track record of truly helping people resolve and repair that thought pattern, or inner feelings that that have lingered and interfered with the joy & inner peace in your life. 

      This involves expertise guiding for you to be able to access the deep and hidden subconscious material. And then, another special type of access to dialogue with the inner part to help it repair its compelled behaviors, inaccurate thoughts, or conclusions from long ago, in order to heal your life. There is also a third special area of expertise needed to ensure that the dialoguing is not just done in your head; but accessed deeply in the nervous system. The IFS Therapist needs to have experience and wisdom in all three of these areas to connect you to your inner parts in ways that will usher in productive unburdening of that source material from old issues and wounding.

     You will also be learning more about your authentic adult self-leadership as you are guided by the IFS Therapist. And as you are guided, you are growing to place that brings you much more empowerment. To get to this, you will be strengthening the C's of Self (listed to the left here).  Don't worry though, you don't have to already know how to be that way, or how to get all that. That's what the therapy will do. It will grow you into those new places.  

     We will spend time getting to know inner parts and find out what is concerning to the part. And why the part does the behaviors (or thoughts/feelings) in your life that cause issues for you.  I will be steering the discovery process to find the burdens that the inner part carries, and the assumptions that part made long ago, that led to those burdens. Many times those are common themes of not being worthy, not deserving, not having a right to exist as you needed to exist (as a kid), and hence, feeling now like you should not take up too much space.  Or, believing you don't quite have a right to have your needs met, or just a continual theme of not being heard, or not seen. Other times inner parts report having some overly adult role as a child, that was just too big of a job for a little one. 

     The power of IFS Therapy is in the quality of inner attending that comes with these special types of access to the subconscious in the nervous system, and that dialogue process. Patti's past experience in intuitive & healing arts, contributes to that very deep access and she uses it to guide the IFS process in session. Her tenured experience holds the space for you to connect to your inner parts so you can be the safe & solid adult your inner parts needed long ago. 

     As you practice IFS in session, your Self-Leadership, strengthens, and your parts will begin to trust you more and more. Which means they can let go, more and more, of the compelled and burdened strategies that keep you stuck in issues and old patterns. When this begins to happen, there the process reduces that sense of inner conflict, and you begin to feel more aligned with your center, and begin to feel a sense of inner safety.

    The process of an inner part unburdening, as it is called, is what has proven to be life changing in IFS Therapy. And because of that, It is known to repair anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, childhood attachment wounding, and emotional neglect in childhood. Especially for those who are fairly high-functioning but have some "last hanger on issue" that they just have not been able to resolve, many times there can be emotional neglect or attachment wounding in early childhood that can be very invisible in a person's life. It can be so baffling to understand was many time those that experienced this, had pretty good outcomes, and have had some life "successes" and would say their childhood was o.k. enough.  And, yet, some invisible thing gnaws inside that just does not feel right. IFS can find those hidden places, and touch what needs to be seen there and access actual repair work. 

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Patti Bee, LPC, IFS Therapist, would be honored to usher you through the IFS Therapy process, to help you gain the new strengths and inner alignment of empowerment you have been yearning for.

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