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Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS): Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapeutic approach that views the mind as a complex system with various inner parts or "subpersonalities." These inner parts represent different aspects of your personality, each with its own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. IFS therapy helps individuals explore and harmonize these inner parts to achieve emotional healing and balance. Application and Scope of Internal Family Systems (IFS): IFS is applied to address a wide range of emotional concerns, including trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. It's particularly effective for individuals seeking to understand and transform the inner conflicts or "parts" that influence their emotions and behaviors. IFS is relevant for people of all ages and backgrounds. What to Expect in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Sessions: In IFS sessions, you'll work with a trained therapist who will guide you through a process of internal exploration. You'll identify and interact with different inner parts, gaining insight into their roles and origins. Through compassionate dialogue and visualization techniques, you'll foster understanding and cooperation among these inner parts, leading to emotional healing and self-empowerment.
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Professionals Who Specialize in Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
People raised on love see things differently than people raised on survival
Chavie Brumer, LCSW-R
Therapist, Psychotherapist, LCSW
Let's be kind also to those who are unseen and unheard.
Daniel Schonbuch, LMFT
Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue. - Viktor Frankl
Jacob Emanuel, MFT, RP
Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense. ― W. H. Auden
Marina Breydo
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Rivky Weiss
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Rachel Levinson, LCSW
Therapist, LCSW
I aim to create a positive, supportive space that encourages growth, self-discovery, and a sense of empowerment for each unique individual
Raizy Mushell
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says "I’m possible".
Ari Poliakoff, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I excel at helping people discover and understand themselves. This is the key to healing, success, and growth.
Loren Aryeh Leib Ecker
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CASAC-T
The way out is through
Yeshaya Kraus
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Come meet yourself! I'll introduce you.
Zipa Leah Scheinberg
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, EMDR, SIFI
Healing from C-PTSD is a Soulful Journey of Recovery
Esther Brodt, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Within each of us lies the power to access healing and the possibility of moving towards living with more meaning, contentment and ease
Mattie Chein
Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW
Naomi Franklin
Therapist, LCSW-R; Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Gershon Basch, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Your mind is a tapestry of beliefs
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Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, RP, MA
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy - Nightbirde
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The quality of your life is dependent on the quality of your relationships.
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Change is inevitable, growth is optional
Menachem Stulberger, LMFT
Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
We can only change ourselves. When we show up differently, that gives the opportunity for others to change as well.
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The medicine has to go deeper than the wound
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R
We are hurt in relationship, and we heal in relationship.
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Your journey to self-discovery, emotional healing, and inner peace begins here.
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Every feeling fully felt is bliss - Joseph Campbell
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Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW
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Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
The more we accept people as they are (including ourselves!), the freer they are to change. And the harder we try to get rid of emotions and thoughts, the stronger they become.
Robin Gutman, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, LPC, NCC
Jonah Mishaan, LMHC, CASAC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Caryn Guttman-Weber, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Rachel Lowinger
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
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Coach, Ms.Ed, RMMC
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you
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Therapist, Doctor of Psychology, LCPC, LMHC, LPC
Every wall is a door. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I'll be here through the tough days, the longing, the heartache and your biggest wins on your healing journey
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Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-C
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Trauma Focused Integrative Psychotherapy
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Coach
Free yourself from the foreign thoughts and unhealthy behaviors that have been keeping your true self at bay.
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Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW
If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!
Malka Shaw, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Ready to increase the Joy in Your Life? Let’s take this journey together…
Rachel Toiv, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. - Carl Rogers
Lynn Zakeri, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Moshe Norman
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.
