IFS Coaching FAQ

I want to offer services as an IFS life coach.
Do I need to be a credentialed therapist as well?

No! There are plenty of IFS coaches out in the world who are not licensed therapists. I help coaches get clarity about the difference. How? By doing IFS! This page has more information about the inner work I offer around these issues.

I’m a credentialed therapist.
How do I legally offer services as a coach?

I don’t know! I’m not a credentialed therapist. I’m a certified IFS practitioner who has been offering IFS life coaching since around 2008, so I understand the field from the perspective of a coach, not a licensed therapist.

Whether you are an IFS coach or therapist, I believe doing your own IFS work and getting IFS training are the two best things you can do for yourself, your clients, and the world!

Do your own IFS work

IFS is a dynamic, lived approach to consciousness; not an abstract concept or step-by-step method. It is said that healers “can only take people where they have gone themselves.” The further you have gone in your own IFS work, the further you can take your clients.

I have been an Internal Family Systems Certified Practitioner since 2010, yet I still see an IFS therapist once a week (Peter Bruce). I have a very rigorous daily IFS practice, which includes approximately 1.25-2 hours of IFS practice every morning. I do about 10-15 hours of IFS on myself every WEEK.

You may ask yourself, “How do you find time for that?” As a mystic, the transformation of my consciousness is my top priority. IFS is the method I use because I’ve never found anything more effective. Since 2002, I’ve done over 4,000 hours of IFS on myself. I continue to learn new, fascinating things about myself, my parts, consciousness and the nature of reality, and my clients appreciate the wisdom and insight I bring back from my own inner journeys.

Whether you have time for a weekly session with an IFS practitioner, a monthly IFS session trade with a peer, or just 15 minutes to check in with your parts in the morning in the shower, every minute you spend doing IFS pays off.

A boulder can be broken apart over time by a steady drip of water. Sometimes our consciousness is like that boulder, a tight, compacted conglomeration of densely blended parts. IFS practice is a steady drip of water — a steady drip of awareness— that slowly but surely separates and unblends the mass of emotional issues into separate, distinct parts that can be worked with compassionately and effectively over time.

Get IFS Training

Reading a book won’t cut it. IFS is a PRACTICE, not a theory. IFS training allows you to PRACTICE with immediate guidance and supervision, and to watch multiple live demonstrations, so that you get a felt sense for parts, Self, the flow of the model, how to unblend, do direct access, unburden, and more.

What’s the difference between IFS coaching and IFS therapy?

Check out this page for some of my ideas.