IFS Integrated with Relational Psychoanalysis

I raised 5 children with my husband of 34 years, while living overseas for 16 of those years. I also worked part time as a high school teacher. After I got a masters in Humanities and we moved back to the States, I switched careers.

Overseas my husband and I were involved in peer counseling of other couples and families and I wanted to do that here in the States as well.

Currently I work with adult individuals, couples and adolescents.

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Internal Family Systems integrates with Relational Psychoanalysis in that in the therapy room my self-states make contact with my clients' self-states and we work on awareness of the different defenses, wounds and beliefs that affect our responses to each other and the environment. 

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Through meditative practices we find out the needs and wants of the clients' psyche(s) and how these parts of the client can respond instead of react to the outside world.