About IFS

Counselling is a valuable way to pursue wholeness and change, and the IFS approach marks a new paradigm in psycho-therapeutic development.

IFS stands for Internal Family Systems, and moves away from a prevailing view that the mind is unitary.

Supported by independent science findings, IFS assumes that multiplicity of the mind is a normal and beneficial state.

It is a transformative model which helps people to access and heal protective and wounded inner parts of the psyche.

Moreover, it believes that each person already has an innate strength that instinctively knows how to heal - resulting in the role of the therapist or practitioner having more to do with facilitating the release of the client's true Self.

The model was developed in the early 1980's by American psychotherapist, Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, and has scientific research supporting its benefits for addiction, depression, and complex trauma.

At its core is a focus on empowering the client to become more integrated and whole; more at the centre of their own healing journey, and more engaged in the world around them.

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Find out more about IFS by visiting the IFS Institute.