Specialized in Internal Family System Therapy
Discover Inner Harmony Through IFS Therapy
Compassionate Internal Family Systems therapy to help you understand, heal, and integrate your inner parts to find peace within yourself.
What is Internal Family Systems?
IFS is a powerful, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps you understand and harmonize the different parts of yourself, leading to profound healing and self-understanding.
Understanding Your Inner System
IFS recognizes that our psyche is naturally composed of multiple "parts" or subpersonalities, each with its own perspective, feelings, and role. At the center is your Self: a calm, compassionate, and curious core that can lead healing.
Have you ever felt conflicting feelings, like part of you wants to do something, but another part of you stands in your own way? Through IFS therapy, you'll learn to access your Self and develop a compassionate relationship with all your parts, including those that may be hurting, protective, or stuck in old patterns.
Managers
Proactive protectors that try to keep you safe and in control
The Self
Your core essence: calm, curious, compassionate, and capable of healing
Firefighters
Reactive protectors that emerge to distract you from emotional pain
Exiles
Wounded parts carrying pain, trauma, or shame from the past
The IFS Difference
Unlike traditional therapies that try to eliminate symptoms, IFS honors all parts of you. There are no "bad" parts, only parts that are burdened and need healing. This approach leads to lasting transformation rather than suppression.
Evidence-Based
Non-Pathologizing
Empowering
Transformative
Understanding Our Layers
All humans come in layers. Each of those layers are constantly interacting with one another, influencing your mind, thoughts, decisions and behaviors. For individuals of color, the intersectionality of our identities can even feel complicated or heightened.
Inspired by this belief, Mayra Vasquez created this painting to represent how each layer of our lived experiences can impact the way we see ourselves, others, and the world.
The process of learning to understand each layer and its impact can be challenging and mind-perplexing (hence our name, “MINDplexcity”), but it’s also a rewarding journey of acceptance, openness, and compassion for yourself and others.
Therapy Services & Modalities
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Anxiety
If you’re feeling helpless from your anxiety, you’re not alone; over 40 million adults in the U.S. suffer from an anxiety disorder. Therapy can help reduce the disruption and teach you coping techniques.
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Brainspotting
Do you feel like the past is weighing you down, and you can’t move on? Brainspotting is a technique for overcoming trauma by guiding the individual to focus on certain spots or “brainspots” in their field of vision.
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Trauma-Informed Therapy
Whether your life was changed in an instant due to an accident, assault, or disaster, or you sustained periods of neglect, abuse, or attachment injury as a child, you may be living with unresolved trauma.
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Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Behind every emotion is a very real need. EFT can help couples identify and meet the needs of their partner to help revive and strengthen their bond.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a technique that helps you process and heal from traumatic memories with strategic eye movement.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Compassionate guidance and psychological healing; explore your inner world with curiosity and kindness. Create deep understandings of the science and soul of healing, guiding you to a more integrated and fulfilled self.
