Discover Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy in Calgary
When Your Mind Feels Like a Battlefield: The IFS Approach
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is trauma-based therapy that focuses on emotional, thinking, behavioural and somatic (physical sensations) healing at the subconscious level. IFS aims to restore, strengthen and heal your connection with your inner ‘parts’, those different voices and feelings inside you that you often fight, suppress, distract from or dislike. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has three main functions: Firstly, IFS therapy aims to ease the inner battles in your mind that were created by past experiences — such as trauma, childhood, society, and relationships — in order to create real harmony, inner peace, and greater control over your mind and inner world. Secondly, IFS therapy facilitates the healing of old wounds through inner child work. This happens by healing the childhood traumas that still trigger and affect your adult self. Thirdly, IFS therapy is a somatic approach that recognizes the connection between the mind- our nervous system, and body. This means that IFS works to heal both the mind from trauma and the body, which stores emotional pain, chronic stress, and psychological sensations related to those experiences. Somatic Therapy is a body-focused counseling approach that aims to heal physical sensations (“felt sense”) and regulate the body’s natural "fight, flight, or freeze" stress response to trauma.
In clinical psychology, IFS is an approach that supports recovery from trauma and early life experiences that continue to influence present thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships.
Our Calgary therapists integrates somatic therapy principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients heal thier mind and body stores unprocessed emotions, stress and trauma, and supports emotional and somatic processing, regulation, and integration.
Common Issues Addressed Through IFS Therapy
The following are some issues that Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can address, including but not limited to:
Trauma Therapy, and Complex -PTSD
Dissociation (Disconnection or emotional numbness)
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Couples & Relationship Counselling
Somatic Therapy (Chronic stress in the body)
Depression and Mood Disorders
Disordered Eating and Eating issues
Sleep Issues
Anger and Emotional Regulation
Understanding the Self and Reconnecting and Harmonizing with the Inner Parts
At Soul-Alliance Psychological Services in Calgary, our licensed psychologists offer specialized therapy, including Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help people reconcile their conflicting inner parts, reduce anxiety and overwhelming emotions, quiet self-criticism, improve emotional regulation, and build a kinder, healthier relationship with themselves and others.
