Each of us has a story. I want to learn more about that story and professionally come alongside and help you live and write the best one you can. People come into counseling when their story goes in directions that confuses, overwhelms, stifles, brings about pain or simply leaves them wanting more. People are relational at the core and many personal issues are relational in nature, therefore counseling must be relational as well. 

Internal Family Systems

IFS is a transformative, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people heal by accessing and loving their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS believes the mind is naturally a plural system and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. We also all have a core Self.

The Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. By helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts, IFS creates inner and outer connectedness. 

If you have tried more traditional "cognitive / behavioral" forms of talk therapy and still feel stuck with your old patterns of behaviors, depression and or anxiety — Internal Family Systems Therapy may be able to help. You do not have to learn to just "live" with the effects of trauma and neglect. Both of these modalities have the ability to integrate past experiences in a way that can lead to healing and personal integration. 

Consider IFS if you are wrestling with. . .

Chronic stress, Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD), Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Improved Relationships, Sleep issues, , Parenting Issues, Mood Stability, Obsessive or Compulsive Behaviors, Phobias. And much more…

Internal Family Systems is cutting edge therapy first developed 40 years ago for Eating Disorders but now is being used for a wide range of emotional, physical and behavioral challenges. Based on the latest attachment and neuroscience research IFS has the potential to focus the healing much more rapidly compared to traditional forms of talk therapy.

Many of the problems that people seek help for with therapy are based on past trauma or attachment wounds. These wounds or traumas distort the lens that we filter our reality through. These distortions are what often cause otherwise bright and capable people to become "stuck" and need to turn to a therapist for help.

 IFS is believed to repair these distortions so you can solve your own problems. Much of traditional therapy deals with the distortions after the fact. Traditional therapy is great for helping people understand where our distortions come from and offers new ways of coping.  Often this is enough to help but sometimes it is not.

 If you are looking for a more rapid and foundational way of dealing with the challenges life offers, Internal Family Systems may be right for you 

I use IFS daily in my practice. 

Additional modalities I have expert experience in…

     I approach counseling in an eclectic manner, utilizing different modalities in conjunction with each person that comes in for help. It is collaborative effort as we join forces in helping you work through and begin to move in the direction that is best for you. Therefore sometimes our work together will resemble a psycho-dynamic relational model focused on the here-and-now counseling relationship, other times it will look more cognitive or systemic and family oriented.