Discover Healing Through Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) invites us to recognise and honour the inner multiplicity we all carry — the many “parts” within us that each have their own feelings, needs, and histories. Some may pull in different directions. Some may feel loud and protective. Others may feel young, scared, or tucked away. And in IFS, a central truth guides our work: there are no bad parts.

Instead of pushing these parts away or trying to silence them, we turn toward them with curiosity, patience, and care. We explore the roles they’ve taken on, the burdens they carry, and the ways they’ve tried to protect you — often for far longer than they should have had to.

This compassionate inner listening helps us understand familiar voices or patterns: the inner critic, the overachiever, the part that wants to shut everything down, or the tender part that feels small and overwhelmed.

Many of these parts hold experiences from earlier chapters of your life. So the work isn’t only about you getting to know them — it’s also about your parts getting to know you: who you are now, with more capacity, more wisdom, and more steadiness than you had when those patterns first formed.

As trust grows, these parts begin to soften. They don’t have to work so hard. And gradually, you can live more from your Self — the grounded, centred, compassionate presence within you that can lead with clarity and calm.