Private IFS Coaching
Private IFS (Internal Family Systems) coaching sessions to create greater insight, emotional healing, inner harmony, and self-empowerment within your life
What is Internal Family Systems?
Private IFS (Internal Family Systems) Coaching, also known as ‘PARTS WORK’, is a gentle and powerful therapeutic modality to understand yourself more deeply, work through emotions and life situations, and begin to relate to your mind and inner system in a way that brings greater inner harmony, healing, clarity, inner peace, and empowerment within your life.
Internal Family Systems is a framework that teaches us how to understand the different PARTS of ourselves that exist within (such as the part that feels anxious, the part that feels hurt or sad, or the part that feels stressed).
This approach helps us understand and work with our thoughts and emotions in a healthier and more compassionate way, and helps us gain insight into what these parts might need to bring greater harmony and empowerment to our inner world and our lives.
In these one-on-one, private coaching sessions, we explore the different parts of you that show up in your thoughts, emotions, reactions, and life patterns.
Many of the struggles we experience come from parts of us that are trying to protect us, hold pain from the past, or are trying to keep us safe in ways that no longer serve us.
When we learn how to understand these parts instead of fighting them, real healing and shift can begin. Through your IFS journey you’ll learn a new way to relate to your thoughts, emotions, and your life that helps you move through the world in a more peaceful, insightful, empowered and loving way.
If you are new to IFS and Shawna, the first session will be getting to know one another, teachings on IFS to begin to understand the model, starting our parts work together while exploring different situations within your life, and an exercise to practice throughout the week.
Shawna may also bring into session her training and knowledge on meditation, mindfulness, spirituality, and nervous system regulation tools, as she’s been a meditation teacher, spiritual mentor and teacher of inner work for 13 years.
Private IFS Coaching Sessions can help you experience healing, personal & spiritual growth, and can help you develop a more peaceful way of being and operating in the world.
IFS coaching sessions can also help if you're experiencing or desiring any of the below...
- Experiencing challenging emotions such as anxiety, sadness, stress, overwhelm, anger or irritability
- Not feeling at ease and at peace within your mind and your life
- Stuck in dissatisfaction, worry, overthinking, or ruminating thoughts
- Feeling lost or stuck in thoughts of "trying to figure it out"
- Struggling with low self-esteem, reactivity, triggers, or strong moods or emotional responses
- Feeling burnt out and tired from life
- Struggling to connect to your intuition or take action on things or ideas
- Moving through a difficult life phase, loss or transition
- Wanting to feel a sense of greater inner harmony, inner peace and inner fulfillment, not based on the external world
- Wanting clarity on different life situations and clarity on steps to move forward
- Wanting to develop a new relationship with your mind, thoughts and emotions that bring greater inner ease, peace and life enjoyment
- Wanting to connect more to your intuition and your inner truths
- Wanting to explore the root of where certain challenges are emerging from and want to work on healing the root cause
- Wanting to understand yourself on a deeper level and develop a more loving relationship with yourself
- Wanting to feel more calm, balanced, and at peace within
- Wanting to have your heart and intuition lead your life more than stress, limiting beliefs, or an overthinking mind
Understanding IFS/'PARTS Work'
We’re all made up of lots of different PARTS – examples: the anxious part, the fearful part, the sad part, the self conscious part, the angry or frustrated part, the stressed part, the lonely part…ETC (as there’s many more).
In an IFS session we see what situations are happening in your life and what PARTS are being activated.
Example: If you feel anxious about something, there’s an anxious PART present. We then connect with that part, become curious about it and explore it, learning: what it might have to say, why it feels the way it does, what they didn’t receive in the past or what they might need now, what they’re ready to let go of (beliefs systems, wounds, ways of being), and what they need moving forward.
What I personally love about IFS is we don’t go looking for the answers, or forcing the answers… instead, we allow them to arise from the PARTS directly.
For me, IFS has been a deeply, deeply healing modality, helping me experience healing with different PARTS and also uncovering the wisdom and truths that PARTS hold to guide me forward. It’s helped to bring greater inner harmony within my system and has provided me a way to work with PARTS and emotions as they arise.
***Experiencing greater harmony within isn’t about NOT feeling challenging emotions…it’s about learning how to see them, become curious about them, relate to them, hold them, and work WITH them****
With IFS we practice MOVING TOWARDS what is coming up versus burying, moving away from or wishing it wasn’t there.
If there’s sadness, anxiety, anger, frustration, we practice MOVING TOWARDS it, connecting with it, exploring it, holding it, relating to it, working with it. This is an amazing practice and skill to have for yourself as you start to have confidence in your ability to MEET, feel and work with whatever comes up in life, no matter how challenging it is.
It also helps you befriend and understand your different PARTS and the feelings and wisdom they hold, helping you make decisions that align more with your inner truths, and helping you move through your life in a more connected and easeful way.
If you’re new to IFS/Parts Work, we always start in a beginner-friendly way.
PRIVATE IFS COACHING WITH SHAWNA
Frequently Asked Questions
After our first introductory sessions, sessions start with a brief check-in on how you’re feeling and what’s taken place since our last session. We then focus in on an area/life situation/emotion that’s calling you to explore. We then move into the IFS and parts work which is often done with client’s eyes closed. Shawna prompts all the questions and helps guide you through exploring your inner world, helping you to gain insight into why you feel certain ways about certain situations, what they’re showing you, wounds or belief systems that might be creating suffering, and guidance to help heal these deeper wounds and needs and step into greater harmony, clarity, and empowerment. IFS is unique where each session is like a personalized exploratory guided journey to uncover your personal patterns and what your system needs to come into greater healing, harmony and personal power.
Nope! If you’re new to IFS, Shawna will fully explain the model. If you’re familiar to IFS, we’ll do a short review and then dive into some parts work.
Sessions are online over Zoom and are 1 hour.
Frequency is based on your desires however, a long-term relationship with IFS will show best results. Some clients find weekly or bi-weekly is most helpful to start. As you move through sessions, begin to understand your internal world more thoroughly, and begin to become what is called more “Self-led”, you might feel called to do sessions monthly or as needed.
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Private IFS Coaching Session
1 hour
A private IFS coaching session done online over Zoom.
$130 CAD/session
*Price in CAD + tax.
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2 sessions x 1 hour
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$220 CAD
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**These sessions are coaching-based and designed to support self-exploration, emotional awareness, and inner growth. While they can be deeply supportive, they are not psychotherapy, and do not involve the diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders. They are not a substitute for care from a doctor, psychotherapist, or regulated healthcare professional.
**Cancellation/Refund policy: Sessions may be rescheduled or cancelled with a minimum of 48 hours’ notice. Cancellations made with less than 48 hours’ notice, or missed sessions, will be charged the full session fee, as this time has been reserved specifically for you. If you arrive late, your session will still end at the scheduled time to respect the next client’s booking.
about your coach
Shawna Thibodeau
Author of The Light That Shines Through, these sessions are led by meditation teacher, IFS and psychospiritual coach + former mental health nurse, Shawna Thibodeau. Shawna has been a meditation teacher and teacher of inner work for over 13 years.
As a previous mental health nurse, and having experienced deep healing and transformation in her own life through inner work and holistic practices, she is passionate about helping others improve their mental, emotional and spiritual health, as well as their life through a psychospiritual approach.
Shawna has completed training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), including foundational and advanced programs through Wilfrid Laurier University, the IFS Counselling Association, and additional training with Dr. Richard Schwartz and Dr. Frank Anderson.
Shawna has also run over 70 retreats, 15 rounds of her 8-week online program ‘Radiant Mind Academy’, and has received over 150+ 5-star google reviews her work is described as “life-changing”, “more effective than therapy”, and a crucial catalyst for women’s healing & empowerment journeys.
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