Announcing our lineup of January 2025 virtual workshops, facilitated by licensed mental health experts. We hope to see you soon!

These well-intentioned clichés may sound comforting at first glance, but they oversimplify the complex process of healing and can invalidate the experiences of individuals struggling with trauma and PTSD.

As humans, we’re complex creatures full of contradictory desires, fears, and conflicting emotions. We are constantly engaged in an internal push-pull battle to reconcile those contradictions—that struggle often leaves us feeling exhausted or disappointed.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) was developed during the 1980s by Richard Schwartz. The simplest way to describe IFS is to say that it is a way of organizing and understanding the contradictions of the mind.