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Internal Family Systems doesn’t diagnose, label behaviors or thoughts as "bad", or treat you as if you have a disorder.

I help you go deeper than cognitively understanding your past without rehashing or reliving traumatic experiences. Instead of digging for what is wrong, we will explore your whole system with curiosity and compassion so that you can heal instead of control.

My therapy practice is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is a compassionate, non-pathologizing approach to psychotherapy developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz.

IFS proposes that our minds are naturally made up of multiple 'parts,' each with its own perspective, memories, and motivations. These parts are not imaginary—they are aspects of our inner life that influence how we think, feel, and behave.

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Clients often say "I should" or "only part of me believes that". As an IFS therapist, I understand how needs and perspectives that contradict each other will pull us in different directions and can look like self-sabotage.

Typical counseling, like CBT or psychoanalysis, tries to regulate or eliminate parts of who you are. I take an entirely different approach.

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At the center of every person is the Self, a core state of being characterized by calm, curiosity, compassion, clarity, confidence, courage, creativity, and connectedness.

Healing in IFS involves helping the Self take leadership, building relationships with parts, and helping parts release the burdens they carry.

I am a Level 3 trained IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapist and an Advanced IFIO (Intimacy From the Inside Out) Couples Therapist.

This training can support you and your loved ones, whether you are seeing me for individual, couples, or family therapy.

To learn more about Intimacy From the Inside Out, visit the IFIO website.

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“To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”

- Mark Nepo