When we think about trauma responses in our nervous system, we usually think about fight, flight, and freeze. These are our bodies innate ways of protecting ourselves in situations that our autonomic nervous system perceives as dangerous or threatening. Sometimes these situations are happening in the moment and we need to protect ourselves, and sometimes […]
Author: Alexis Burger-Heist
What I Love About IFS:
One therapist’s take on working with Internal Family Systems. The first time Internal Family Systems (IFS) really clicked for me, I was in a practice session at my first IFS training. As the “client,” I encountered a protector part that had been causing me to intellectualize everything rather than allowing me to feel my feelings. […]
How Do I Know if IFS is Right for Me?
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based, client-centred therapeutic model. Developed in the 1980s, IFS is derived from the idea that each person is made up of many parts, which then interact with one-another like members of a family or household. Therefore, each part has its own thoughts, feelings, idiosyncrasies, and jobs to do to […]