What Therapy Together May Look Like
I use the IFS model and a collaborative compassionate approach to help you identify and understand your inner system so you can connect with your core Self. Our sessions will also strongly focus on developing a trusting working relationship, with me but more importantly with yourself — helping you to minimize internal chaos and feel more balance and harmony.
Every person is different. I tailor Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to your goals, experiences, and nervous system so therapy feels collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all. In this short video, I share what it’s like to work with me as a therapist and how I approach healing through curiosity, compassion, and collaboration. I discuss Internal Family Systems (IFS), neurodivergence (ADHD and autism), and creating space for healing that feels individualized and deeply understood.
How IFS Looks in Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) views the mind as naturally containing different parts—each with good intentions, even when their strategies no longer serve us.
IFS invites curiosity and understanding.
Exiles
Parts that carry pain, fear, loneliness, shame, or unmet needs.
◌Managers
Protective parts that try to keep life organized, controlled, safe, or predictable.
Firefighters
Protective parts that respond quickly when emotions become overwhelming—often through distraction, avoidance, urgency, numbing, or action.
The goal of IFS is not to eliminate parts, but to help them feel safer and allow more access to Self—our natural capacity for compassion, curiosity, confidence, calm, courage, creativity, connectedness, and clarity.
I hope to guide you and hold space for you as you reduce internal chaos, experience more balance and harmony within, and begin living with greater freedom from burdens and negative beliefs.
In IFS, Self energy includes compassion, curiosity, clarity, calm, connectedness, creativity, confidence, courage…
What to Expect
Who I Work With
I primarily work with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, neurodivergence, relationships, and life transitions. I also provide consultation for therapists and integrate Gottman-informed couples work when appropriate.
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$250/session (60 min)
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Each session is 60 minutes.
Sessions are generally recommended weekly, however I will work with you individually to determine a plan that best meets your needs.
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I can provide a superbill for your insurance provider, which can entitle you to reimbursement depending on your individual plan.
The provided superbill is out of network, so you would need to meet your out of network deductible first.
If you're curious about whether Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is right for you, I'd be happy to talk with you. I offer virtual therapy for adults throughout California and Michigan and tailor treatment to your unique goals and experiences.
The Power of Curiosity
Lisa Giles is a licensed marriage and family therapist, IFS Approved Clinical Consultant, and author of MISUNDERSTOOD. She provides virtual therapy in California and Michigan, specializing in neurodivergence, trauma, eating disorders, relationships, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).