Perfectionism in eating disorders isn’t just a personality trait it’s often a protector, guarding deeper emotional wounds. Explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps identify and unburden the exiled parts that carry shame, fear of rejection, and trauma beneath perfectionistic behaviours. Examine the role of temperament, emotion avoidance, and self-worth in the development and maintenance of anorexia, bulimia, and orthorexia.

Combining Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), behavioural chain analysis and parts mapping for those experiencing crisis or suicidal ideation.

Nightmares aren’t just distressing dreams they can be a critical warning sign. Frequent, distressing nightmares are a strong, independent risk factor for suicidal thoughts.

Explores how sleep disruption, trauma themes, and helplessness in dreams all heighten suicide risk and why clinicians must assess and treat nightmares directly. With insights from EMDR, IFS, and trauma-informed care, we offer hope and pathways to healing.

When food has been paired with fear, shame, or scarcity, eating is no longer a simple act; it becomes a conversation between parts. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps us understand avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge eating, and childhood food trauma not as defiance but as protection. Beneath the picky eating or urgent binges are parts doing their best to survive a past that once made nourishment feel unsafe. IFS offers a compassionate roadmap to listen inward, meet those protectors, and help the system trust that nourishment no longer has to hurt.