Like members of a family, a person's inner parts can take on extreme roles or subpersonalities. Each “part” has its own perspective, interests, memories, and viewpoint. A core tenet of IFS is that every part has good intention even if its actions are counterproductive and/or cause dysfunction. There is no need to fight with, coerce, or eliminate our parts; the IFS method promotes internal connection and harmony to bring the mind back into balance.

CBT involves cognitive challenging, refocusing, and reframing our thoughts. We will explore underlying schemas that impact your thoughts and behaviors. You may need to work on improving communication skills, practice assertive, effective, and self-affirming expression of thoughts, feelings, emotions, needs and boundaries.

Somatic Experiencing® is a body first approach to dealing with the symptoms of trauma that are often physical as well as emotional. It helps create new experiences in our body; ones that contradict those of fight or flight tension and overwhelming helplessness. Healing isn’t about reclaiming memories or changing our thoughts and beliefs about how we feel, it’s about exploring the sensations that lie underneath our feelings and beliefs, as well as our habitual behavior patterns.

Trauma-informed Narrative Therapy

SFT views families as having unique systems, where there are family roles , rules, and power dynamics that can be unhealthy or hurtful. Through SFT interventions & techniques, we can shift underlying negative behaviors that create hurtful rules or power dynamics within family relationships.

Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.