What is IFS
Internal Family Systems views multiplicity of mind as our natural state and our “parts” as sub-personalities that may be healed and transformed by bringing the Self into its rightful role as leader of the internal system. The Self, is our true compassionate and loving nature.
When working with an individual, the goal of IFS is to differentiate this Self from the parts, thereby releasing its resources. When the individual is in the state of Self, we can work together to help the parts out of their extreme roles.
Camilo Gallardo IAAP, GAP, UKCP
Psychotherapist trained as a Jungian analyst and IFS therapist
Thirty-five years ago, seeking a deeper path of study, I transitioned from acting to train as a Jungian analyst.
In 2014 began new phase of exploration into the impact of psychological trauma—both individual and collective. That search eventually led me to Internal Family Systems Therapy.
How IFS works
If I take a moment to “go inside,” as I would be invited to do at the beginning of an IFS session, what would I find? I would find the same stream of thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, anxieties, desires, beliefs, and preoccupations that I would encounter in any type of mindfulness practice.
Within the IFS model, however, I approach the thought or feeling as a communication to me from some part of myself that is asking for my attention, not just as a momentary event that arises and passes away.
The psyche is not an indivisible unity but a divisible and more or less divided whole. Although the separate parts are connected with one another, they are relatively independent, so much so that certain parts of the psyche never become associated with the ego at all, or only very rarely.
CW, Volume 8, “The Psychological Foundation of the Belief in Spirits”, par 582
By day no light is needed, and if you don't know it is night you won't light one, nor will any light be lit for you unless you have suffered the horror of darkness. ~ C.G.Jung, CW 9i, Para 595
Rates for Psychotherapy
Online: £150
The online method of payment accepted is PayPal.
Transactions must be completed prior to the beginning of each online session.
