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)

Mendel Toron, LCSW

Therapist, LCSW, CCTP, EMDR Certified

Trauma & EMDR Therapist

  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 💡 Solution-oriented

Bassy (Batya) Schwartz, LMFT

Therapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT

You are the one you've been waiting for -Richard Schwartz

  • 💙 Warm
  • 😃 Humorous
  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🤝 Collaborative

Simi Schwartz, LCSW

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance. ― Viktor E. Frankl

  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 💪 Challenging
  • 🙌 Affirming

Aaron Silverman

Therapist, LMSW

#gettingtohappy

  • 😃 Humorous
  • 👂 Listener
  • 🙌 Affirming
  • 🔥 Energetic

Avigail Teiler, LMSW

Therapist, Licensed Master Social Worker

Be the person who makes everybody feel like a somebody

  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🧘 Calm

Deb Hirschhorn

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.

  • 🙌 Affirming
  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🙏 Spiritual

David Greene

Therapist, LCSW, LCADC

Mindy Friedman, LCSW

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

We are more awake, alive, and complex than we know.

  • 💙 Warm
  • 🙌 Affirming
  • 💭 Open minded
  • 🤝 Collaborative

Rebecca Marcus

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change," Carl Rogers

  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 😃 Humorous
  • 💪 Challenging

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.

  • 🙌 Affirming
  • 💭 Open minded
  • 💙 Warm
  • 💡 Solution-oriented

Caryn Guttman-Weber, LMHC

Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

Eli Kaufman, LCSW

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

  • 💭 Open minded
  • 🧘 Calm
  • 🤝 Collaborative

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