Internal Family Systems Therapist in Denver and Throughout Colorado
Transform your relationships–with yourself and others.
Imagine your life as a vast landscape, where every part of you plays a valuable role in the ecosystem of your mind, body, and soul.
As a heart-centered, soul-led therapist grounded in the natural rhythms of healing, I invite you to gently explore your inner terrain. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, somatic therapy, and attachment-based healing, we’ll nurture the roots of your emotions, foster growth, and reconnect to your truest, most embodied self.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy in Denver: Tending to Your Inner Garden
IFS Therapy views every human being as a system of parts, each part having a role in your inner system with their own motivations and purposes.
Think of this system as a garden existing within you, a sacred space filled with various parts of your inner self. Some parts may feel vibrant and flourishing, while others remain hidden in the shade—perhaps overgrown with sadness, loneliness, or anxiety. Parts work empowers you to be in relationship with your inner world by bringing awareness to these parts and their roles, developing internal trust and safety, and ultimately releasing their burdens through compassion and presence. In this way, you become a gentle gardener of your body-mind-soul.
In IFS therapy, we invite your parts to come together in harmony as a unified whole, which creates more balance in your nervous system states, your body, and in your relationships. Some of these parts are often wounded because of past traumas or experiences, and as a result they can become hypervigilant, dissociative, or hold onto deep grief. When you can welcome and communicate with your parts, they begin to integrate with your calm, curious, compassionate, infinitely wise inner “Self.” This Self makes choices based on love and compassion, not on fear.
When you welcome all your parts, you can form a caring, trusting, and secure relationship with your whole, embodied Self.
Traditional therapies focus on managing emotions and changing behaviors. IFS focuses on forming internal relationships with the longings and intentions within emotions and behaviors.
Just as a plant needs light, water, and attention to thrive, so too do the parts of you that long for care and compassion. Together, we will cultivate curiosity about your inner world, giving voice to the parts that may feel silenced or burdened. Whether it’s a protective part that shields you from hurt or the vulnerable part that aches for understanding, we’ll tend to them with gentle hands, tending toward growth and healing. In time, you’ll see the beauty in the complexity of your internal garden and recognize that each part plays a vital role in your wholeness.
“Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.”
– Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS
Internal Family Systems therapy helps you:
Reimagine your relationship to your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
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Cultivate self-trust, self-kindness, empathy, and understanding
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Decrease chronic states of anxiety, depression, and disconnection
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Release old habits that are no longer serving you
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Heal past traumas
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Build balanced and compassionate relationships with yourself and loved ones
Intimacy from the Inside Out: IFS Therapy for Couples & Relationships
Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) is a relationship and couples therapy model rooted in the principles of IFS.
IFIO guides couples to recognize and heal the parts of themselves that get triggered within their relationship dynamics. In this style of relational therapy, we aim to create a more compassionate, authentic connection with each other by fostering curiosity and empathy for your own and your partner's internal worlds.
“You can become your own healer—the special person your vulnerable parts have been waiting for. When that happens, your partner will be released from the redeemer trap and its accompanying projects, and true intimacy will be possible.”
– Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS
Couples learn to identify protective behaviors and reactions—often linked to past wounds or unmet needs—that emerge in conflict or communication cycles.
By acknowledging these protective parts and working toward their healing, couples can move beyond reactive patterns and into a space of deeper understanding and intimacy.
IFIO, like IFS, ultimately encourages personal and relational growth by focusing on the healing of each partner’s internal world, allowing for a more integrated and harmonious connection.
IFIO therapy helps partners:
Communicate more effectively
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Listen to one another with openness and non judgment
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Gain confidence in your ability to move from rupture into repair
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Break generational patterns
Process grief
Nurture a stronger sense of safety, trust, and intimacy
Transform relationships from conflicted to integrated
Somatic Therapy: Uncovering the Body’s Wisdom
Just as the Earth holds its own rhythms—changing with the seasons, adapting to storms, blooming in cycles—your body, too, carries a deep reservoir of innate wisdom.
Somatic therapy invites you to attune, listen, and welcome the subtle shifts and sensations that guide your emotions and experiences. In this approach, the body is seen as an essential communicator of the inner system's experiences, where emotions, traumas, and protective parts are stored physically.
In somatic therapy, we move beyond words and into the language of the body. Every tension, every flutter of the heart or tightening of the chest, tells a story. Like the roots of a tree communicating beneath the soil, your body is constantly offering signals, asking for care and attention. Together we’ll explore these sensations, learning to listen and respond to your body’s cues with curiosity and compassion.
Somatic therapy is an invitation to come home to your body, to trust in its ability to guide you toward healing, and to cultivate a deep, embodied sense of connection to yourself and the world around you.
Somatic therapy encourages you to trust your body as a wise guide, helping you release old patterns of stress, anxiety, and trauma. By fostering a sense of calm in the nervous system, you will feel more clarity, confidence, creativity, and connection in your lived experience. Much like how a river flows freely when obstacles are removed, your body has the ability to heal and move toward balance when we create the space for it to do so.
Somatic therapy helps you:
Tune into your body’s cues, sensations, and feelings
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Cultivate a deeper understanding of your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
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Feel more grounded in connections with yourself and others
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Reconnect with your inherent intuition and wisdom
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Attachment-Based Therapy: Growing Stronger from the Roots
Our earliest relationships are like the roots of a tree—they anchor us, provide nourishment, and shape the way we grow.
Sometimes, those roots don’t get enough sunlight or water, leaving us feeling unsteady or insecure in our relationships. Attachment-based therapy helps you return to these roots, gently unearthing the patterns formed in your early attachments and bringing them into the light for healing.
Just as a tree grows stronger when its roots are well-nourished, you too can cultivate healthier relationships by tending to the foundational bonds that shaped you. Together, we’ll explore how your early experiences of love, trust, and safety have influenced the way you connect with others today. Whether you’ve struggled with trust, boundaries, or intimacy, attachment-based therapy provides a path to heal old wounds and nurture new, healthier connections.
“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
Attachment-based therapy helps you:
Understand how your early relationships influenced your present-day relationships
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Become aware of patterns that play out in your close relationships
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Develop more authenticity, vulnerability, and safety in the ways you relate to others
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Change the cycles and heal old relational wounds
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Return to a healthy foundation from which to have balanced, empowered relationships
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