The Effectiveness of IFS Therapy for Trauma
Humans are all made differently. Each of us has good and bad parts. There is nothing wrong with having each; we aren’t one-dimensional beings. We are multi-faceted and complex, carrying lessons we learned, hardships we have faced, and positive experiences that we were lucky to go through. A lot of us are also carrying trauma or the past with us. It leaves us feeling haunted, scarred, and sometimes stuck on this challenging journey we call life.
If you have gone through a traumatic experience, you know exactly what we are talking about here—how the past always looms behind and in front. Trauma can trap us between feeling helpless and without a way forward. If you are tired of the toll the past has taken on you, IFS Therapy may be the best option for you to begin healing. Let’s focus on how.
IFS Therapy And How It Helps To Treat Trauma
Traditional or talk therapy can be useful. For some people, healing from trauma is just a matter of talking it through. For other people, they need to process a different way. One of the most powerful methods to heal trauma is Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). IFS is a deep dive into who you are as a person. In other posts, I discuss each of the IFS parts, so I’ll skip over that here.
Identifying Your Parts
The first part of healing trauma is to recognize what parts of yourself need healing. IFS helps us to recognize the bodily sensations we are experiencing when we think about past trauma. Our bodies and minds are intricately woven with one another, after all.
IFS Helps You Discover Your Feelings
It’s not enough to simply recognize the mind’s connection with the body. You also need to understand your feelings, as well. With IFS, you can learn to identify how you are feeling about what your body is experiencing. In this way, it can help you see the true connections with how everything can feed into one another.
When working with a therapist, they can help you safely explore the different parts of you that can feed into one another. This helps you to see how deeply woven the trauma is and how it affects every area of your life.
IFS Helps You To Slowly Unravel This Woven Trauma
When trauma feels like such a deep part of ourselves, we often feel like we can never escape it. It feels like a tightly woven ball of yarn so tangled that there’s no way to fix it. That is never the case, at all. No matter what trauma has occurred, there can always be healing. Will the yarn that we unravel look the same as it did before? No. But that allows for beauty and creativity of a different sort on the other side.
Working With An IFS Therapist For Trauma
You may feel hesitant about talking to someone about your trauma. There’s almost a safe bet that much of what you have felt or thought surrounding the experience has just remained bottled up inside of you. There is no harm in that. However, if you are here, it means that somewhere deep inside you, you believe you can find ways to heal on your own terms and how you see fit. As an IFS therapist, my goal is to help you see the parts of yourself that need healing and for you to recognize yourself for what you are—someone who went through something traumatic but is still worthy of finding peace.
Let’s connect soon so I can help you discover who you are and heal from your trauma with IFS therapy.
