Safety Planning in IFS: Replacing Suicide Behavioural Contracts with Internal Agreements
What if safety planning didn’t silence the suicidal parts, but invited them into conversation? Explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy offers a compassionate alternative to no suicide contracts, helping clients build internal agreements, engage protectors, and listen to the parts that are hurting. A new way forward: curious, connected, and grounded in hope.
IFS for Eating Disorders: How Internal Sequences Drive Disordered Eating
Eating disorders aren’t just symptoms they are survival strategies. Explore how IFS therapy helps unpack the inner patterns that keep us stuck, and how healing begins with understanding, not blame.
Weathering the Storm Inside: An Internal Family Systems Approach to Suicidality
When parts of us are in pain, they often speak through extremes. In Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, suicidal thoughts are not signs of disorder. They are signals from protectors trying to shield us from what feels unbearable.
Integrating suicidology and lived clinical experience, it invites clinicians to move beyond labels and listen deeply to the parts that want to die, the parts that want to live, and the Self that can hold them both.