IFS Therapy is a somatic therapy model that uses archetypes in an inner dialogue to help uncover false beliefs, pain and suffering. We then dialogue with the suffering as if it is a personified inner part of us.   In this inner dialogue there is the Self; the person in their purest form that works to have compassion to the parts.  Some have compared this to the Observant Mind in Buddhism. And the conceptualization of the Self in IFS Therapy, as very comparable with the idea of one's  Buddha-nature Self.

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IFS Therapy is a non-pathologizing model of psychotherapy, that works to use the compassion of the Self, to repair the inaccurate conclusions the person holds about themselves that cause them to suffer.  With a skilled IFS Therapy guide, a person can find real results in greatly reducing numerous mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic pain and suffering.