Are you looking for professional IFS Therapy & Coaching in Utrecht?

My practice offers Internal Family Systems therapy. IFS (Internal Family Systems) is the most powerful and effective way I know for awareness, healing and transformative inner growth. Because of the way IFS is set up, it can be used both as a coach and as a therapist. IFS helps you to become aware of your 'Self', and to develop understanding and compassion for all your inner parts, so that you will experience more happiness, balance and peace in your daily life.

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What is Internal Family Systems?

IFS is a powerful and scientifically based form of psychotherapy, developed by Richard Schwartz. IFS assumes an 'inner system' with one Self and countless inner parts, each with their own thoughts, emotions and roles. All your parts have positive intentions. Only it can happen that some parts get stuck in protective roles, such as perfectionism, pleasing, rationalizing, self-criticism, addiction or overeating, because they are burdened with pain and conditioning from the past.

Through IFS Therapy, you learn to approach all your inner parts with curiosity and compassion, instead of judgment. When you do that, something special happens: the parts that carry burdens feel safe and understood, which allows them to let go of their protective roles. They dare to trust that your inner essence - what in IFS is called the Self - is taking the lead. You can think of the Self as the conductor and your inner parts as the members of the orchestra: when the conductor takes the lead from a place of calm, curiosity, compassion, trust, courage and clarity, balance is created and the orchestra plays together in harmony.

What makes IFS so revolutionary is that it is completely guided by your own inner experience. There is no work with diagnoses, labels or disorders that need to be 'fixed'. Using IFS techniques, you are guided to get to know your inner world and heal it from within, restoring balance and inner harmony. By taking control from the Self, the freedom arises to live in a conscious and life-enriching way, instead of acting reactively from fear, trauma and conditioning.

The impact of IFS Therapy & Coaching:

• Insight into your own behavior and feelings: by getting to know your inner parts, you will better understand why you react in certain ways.

• Healing and reducing stress, anxiety and depression: by freeing inner parts from fear, pain and conditioning, inner peace and harmony arise.

• Strengthening self-compassion and self-confidence: you develop gentleness and understanding for all your inner parts, which contributes to a positive self-image.

• Improved Relationships: IFS promotes empathy and communication, and helps you recognize and break triggers and reactive patterns within relationships.

• Transformative personal growth: by developing a powerful 'Self' you gain control over patterns and blockages, and the space is created to make authentic life-enriching choices.

What does an IFS trajectory look like?

1. Getting to know each other and setting goals

   During the first session we get to know each other and explore your situation and request for help. We discuss what you want to achieve with IFS and set goals together.

2. Meet your inner parts

   Then we go on a discovery. I guide you in recognizing and learning to understand your different parts. We investigate which parts require the most attention and which parts hold you in protective patterns.

3. Deep work and healing

   In follow-up sessions we use IFS techniques to free these parts from the burden they carry, to heal them and to connect them with each other. This creates more harmony in your inner system.

4. Integration and completion

   As the journey progresses, you integrate the insights and changes into your daily life. We regularly evaluate how you feel and what you need. Ultimately, we conclude the journey when you have achieved your desired transformation.

Why choose IFS Therapy in Utrecht with me?

I have specialized in working with inner parts. In addition to Internal Family Systems (by Richard C. Schwartz), I also work with Voice Dialogue (by Hal and Sidra Stone) and Inner Child work.

Gaining insight into your inner parts is extremely effective in breaking patterns and letting go of fear, so that more space is created to be yourself and shape your own life from a place of peace and confidence.

In addition to working with inner parts, I use Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication techniques. Mindfulness helps you to be more present in the moment and to make conscious choices, even in challenging situations. Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool to be more connected to yourself and others, by better understanding and expressing feelings and needs.