Duration of each session: 60 minutes
Cost:
Sessions are facilitated via Zoom.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapeutic modality created by an American therapist and academic, Richard C. Shwartz.
IFS is based on the understanding that every person's psyche is multiple or has multiple parts. In other words, our psyche holds a variety of different perspectives within it, which are constantly influencing our lives in both positive and negative ways.
When trauma occurs within the system, some parts get wounded and become completely isolated from the whole. This leads the inner system to create protective parts or strategies around those wounded parts, or inner children, to make sure that they never get triggered. Unfortunately, no matter how hard the protective parts work, the wounded parts will eventually get triggered, and a person's defence system will be further activated, resulting in emotional, mental and physical challenges.
IFS sessions help the wounded parts of the psyche to release their burdens and create healthier strategies within the system that ensure a person's well-being across all dimensions of health. IFS sessions are very gentle, slow-paced, intuitive and healing. Nobody will tell you what to do or press you into doing something you do not want to do. An IFS skilled practitioner simply guides you in the process of understanding your internal system.
These sessions are based solely on the IFS model and are not conducted as Anastasia's typical coaching sessions. They aim to help you reconnect with your inner peace, power, and joy, so you can live a happier and more fulfilling life.
IFS sessions can help you to:
understand yourself more
gain more clarity around your present life/health challenges
cultivate self-compassion and self-love
become more emotionally resilient
improve your intuition
connect to your inner power and resources
release emotional blocks and trauma
bring you back home to your SELF/connect with who you truly are
Please note that IFS sessions offered by Anastasia are IFS-INFORMED sessions. This means that Anastasia has finished a professional foundational IFS-CIRCLE course which allows her to instill IFS-informed principles into her coaching work. Complex cases outside of Anastasia's scope of practice will be referred to more experienced IFS Level 1,2,3 practitioners.
IFS-informed sessions with Anastasia are not psychological consultations, despite her background in Practical Psychology and trauma-trained care. Anastasia works with what arises within her clients in the here and now and focuses on her clients’ future health goals. IFS sessions do not require you to overshare, talk about your trauma in detail, or remember traumatic scenes in a way that may retraumatise you. If you have any further questions, you are always welcome to send Anastasia an email.