Inner work for any life context
One-to-one IFS sessions
This section gathers my work with people on a variety of life paths, beyond an artistic frame. It is for those navigating chronic stress, anxiety, depression, or shame; patterns of avoidance, procrastination, or freezing; grief, or the residue of difficult experiences. It is for those at a threshold — an ending, a decision, a beginning — who want a careful place to think it through.
What happens in a session is, mostly, slowing down. We turn toward whatever has been pulling at attention — a feeling, a bodily sensation, a difficulty with someone you love — and learn to recognise the part of you that has been carrying it. Sometimes we go underneath, to the older feeling that part has been holding. Sometimes we stay with the dynamics of right now. We move at the pace your system asks for, and never faster.
A dynamic I often see
There is a pattern I see often in this work — most of us carry some form of it inside.
We arrive in the world carrying two deep needs that, at their root, are not in conflict: the need for attachment — for belonging, for being held in steady relationship — and the need for authenticity, for showing up as we genuinely are. Both are essential. Neither is optional. But many of us grew up in environments where the two had to be traded against each other. Some parts of us were welcomed; others — sensitivity, anger, vulnerability, certain expressions of joy — could not be held by the people around us, and learned, very early, to go quiet.
Over time, two protective patterns form inside: one watching the relational field and carefully managing what gets expressed; the other carrying the long-suppressed bid for what wants to surface. They can polarise — feeling like opposite sides of a war fought inside you — and both are protecting something important. The work is not to choose a side. It is to develop enough inner steadiness to be present to both, and to begin to find ways forward that honour what each is protecting. These dynamics often shape entire lives — and when they begin to transform, the life around them can transform with them.
PS. A note
What I have come to trust, through years of this work, is that we do not need to be fixed. The parts of us that have been carrying weight have been doing so on behalf of something — often something deeply true — and when they are met, with patience and without urgency, they tend to find their way to a softer place. What emerges is not a different person. It is a person more able to be themselves: more steadiness in the face of what is hard, more access to their own gifts, more freedom in how they meet their life.
What you can work on here
- Chronic stress and bodily tension
- Anxiety and self-criticism
- Depression
- Shame and guilt
- Difficulty being fully present in relationships
- Patterns of avoidance, procrastination, or freezing
- Exhaustion and loss of vitality
- Inner conflict: feeling caught between opposing needs
- Unintegrated processes of grief or loss
- Responses to traumatic experiences
Free introductory session
One hour, online.
Prices
- ·Standard: 60 €/hour
- ·Sliding scale: reach out if you cannot afford this price. We will find a sustainable agreement.