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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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Full ArticleProfessionals Who Specialize in Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Chaya Danziger
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Malka Shaw, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Ready to increase the Joy in Your Life? Let’s take this journey together…
Jacob (Chezki) Finkelstein
Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, MTL, MSCC, LPC
Because you have it in you.
Rivky Weiss
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Simona Noaghiul Yland
Therapist, MD, MPH, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Fully mindful of each moment. ... "You cannot add more minutes to a day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest
Feiga Weinstock, LMSW
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!
Dovid Meshchaninov, LPCC
Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, SEP
To find your light, you need to first face your darkness.
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
Eli Goldberg
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CASAC
We are all just walking each other home - Ram Dass
Raizy Mushell
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says "I’m possible".
Danielle Rosenthal
Therapist, Licensed Master of Social Work, LMSW
Judah Katz, MFC
Therapist, Marriage & Family Counselor, MFC
Every feeling fully felt is bliss - Joseph Campbell
Michelle Halle, LCSW
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.
Anna Sherman, MFT
Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, RP, MA
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy - Nightbirde
Rachel Lowinger
Therapist, PhD
Esti Marcus, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Trauma Focused Integrative Psychotherapy
Miriam Porat
Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life - Tara Brach
Rachel Shasho, LCSW
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
Rebecca Marcus
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Erica Klein, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Robin Gutman, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, LPC, NCC
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
Rachy Friedlander, Somatic Coach
Coach, Emotions Master Coach/TEB Practitioner
The real flex is how many wounds you can turn into wisdom.
Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.
Therapist, Ph.D, LMHC
The Self is in everybody. . . the Self cannot be damaged, the Self doesn't have to develop, and the Self possesses its own wisdom about how to heal internal as well as exteral relationships.
Esther (Ellen) Gendelman
Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Marina Breydo
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Michael Meir
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MD, PhD, LMHC
TEDx speaker, former dean of health sciences (NY), author of four books. Active listener and proactive therapist.
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
Brooke English
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, RYT
Taibke Hyman, LPC
Therapist, LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor
If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -Hillel
Michali Friedman, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-C
Embrace Yourself. Embrace Each Other. Embrace Life.
Yocheved Jacobsohn, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Change is inevitable, growth is optional
Bassy (Batya) Schwartz, LMFT
Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
You are the one you've been waiting for -Richard Schwartz
Divi (Devorah) Kamman
Psychiatric Medication Provider, PMHNP
The medicine has to go deeper than the wound
Jacob Emanuel, MFT, RP
Therapist, Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense. ― W. H. Auden
Jodi Engelstein, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, LCMHC, MS
Your goals in therapy will always stand as building blocks for the work we do.
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.
Dr. Yosef Tropper, PsyD
Therapist, Doctor of Psychology, LCPC, LMHC, LPC
Every wall is a door. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yeshaya Kraus
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Come meet yourself! I'll introduce you.
Mendel Toron
Therapist, LCSW, CCTP, EMDR Certified
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
Eli Kaufman, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Shimshon Meir Frankel
Coach
Free yourself from the foreign thoughts and unhealthy behaviors that have been keeping your true self at bay.
Benson Fox, Life Coach
Coach, Certified Life Coach and PsyD Candidate
If you want different results, then do things differently.
Jen Gottesman
Therapist, Master of Social Work
It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need -- Amy Poehler
Shira Pomrantz, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Your journey to self-discovery, emotional healing, and inner peace begins here.
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.
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
Mindy Friedman, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
We are more awake, alive, and complex than we know.
Caryn Guttman-Weber, LMHC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
Naomi Franklin
Therapist, LCSW-R; Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Brenda Landau
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
Zipa Leah Scheinberg
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, EMDR, SIFI
Healing from C-PTSD is a Soulful Journey of Recovery
Rachel Yaghobian, Ms.Ed
Coach, Ms.Ed, RMMC
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you
Loren Aryeh Leib Ecker
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CASAC-T
The way out is through
Nahum Spirn
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.
Chana Eisenstein, CPC
Coach, Certified Professional Coach, CPC
The quality of your life is dependent on the quality of your relationships.
Chava Abramovitz, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW-R
We are hurt in relationship, and we heal in relationship.
Gershon Basch, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Your mind is a tapestry of beliefs
Jonah Mishaan, LMHC, CASAC
Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC
I have gleaned much wisdom from my teachers, even more from my colleagues, and most profoundly from my patients.
Mattie Chein
Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW
Lynn Zakeri, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Estee Esses, LMSW
Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW
Although we can't go back and make a brand new start, we can start from now and make a brand new end.
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.