Specialized in Internal Family System Therapy
Discover Inner Harmony Through IFS Therapy
Compassionate Internal Family Systems therapy to help you understand, heal, and integrate your inner parts to find peace within yourself.
What is Internal Family Systems?
IFS is a powerful, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps you understand and harmonize the different parts of yourself, leading to profound healing and self-understanding.
Understanding Your Inner System
IFS recognizes that our psyche is naturally composed of multiple "parts" or subpersonalities, each with its own perspective, feelings, and role. At the center is your Self: a calm, compassionate, and curious core that can lead healing.
Have you ever felt conflicting feelings, like part of you wants to do something, but another part of you stands in your own way? Through IFS therapy, you'll learn to access your Self and develop a compassionate relationship with all your parts, including those that may be hurting, protective, or stuck in old patterns.
The Self
Your core essence: calm, curious, compassionate, and capable of healing
Managers
Proactive protectors that try to keep you safe and in control
Firefighters
Reactive protectors that emerge to distract you from emotional pain
Exiles
Wounded parts carrying pain, trauma, or shame from the past
The IFS Difference
Unlike traditional therapies that try to eliminate symptoms, IFS honors all parts of you. There are no "bad" parts, only parts that are burdened and need healing. This approach leads to lasting transformation rather than suppression.
Evidence-Based
Non-Pathologizing
Empowering
Transformative
How IFS Can Help You
Internal Family Systems therapy is effective for a wide range of challenges, helping you find deeper healing and lasting change.
Trauma & PTSD
Heal deep wounds and traumatic experiences by unburdening wounded parts with compassion
Inner Critic Work
Transform your relationship with critical parts and develop self-compassion
Anxiety & Depression
Address the root causes of anxiety and depression by working with protective and exiled parts
Emotional Regulation
Learn to manage overwhelming emotions by understanding their protective purpose
Relationship Issues
Improve relationships by understanding how your parts interact with others
Personal Growth
Unlock your full potential by integrating all parts of yourself with Self-leadership
IFS is also highly effective for addiction recovery, eating disorders, grief, chronic pain, and many other challenges.
The IFS Therapy Process
A gentle, step-by-step journey toward healing and self-understanding
Free Consultation
20-minute initial call to discuss your goals and determine if we're a good fit
Parts Exploration
Begin identifying and getting to know your internal system of parts with compassion
Building Self-Leadership
Learn to access and strengthen your Self to lead the healing process
Unburdening & Integration
Release old wounds and integrate parts for lasting transformation and peace
Every journey is unique. We'll move at a pace that feels right for you.
Meet Mayra, Your Therapist!
Understanding Our Layers
All humans come in layers. Each of those layers are constantly interacting with one another, influencing your mind, thoughts, decisions and behaviors. For individuals of color, the intersectionality of our identities can even feel complicated or heightened.
Inspired by this belief, Mayra Vasquez created this painting to represent how each layer of our lived experiences can impact the way we see ourselves, others, and the world.
The process of learning to understand each layer and its impact can be challenging and mind-perplexing (hence our name, “MINDplexcity”), but it’s also a rewarding journey of acceptance, openness, and compassion for yourself and others.