IFS Therapy in Montpelier, Vermont (In-Person & Statewide Telehealth) —

Part of you snaps at the people you love, then hates that it happened.
Part of you shuts down the second things get hard.
Part of you is exhausted from holding it all together, all the time.

You've read the books. You've tried to just relax, just let it go, just be present. It hasn't stuck — because the part of you running the show doesn't take orders from your willpower.

You shouldn't have to fight yourself just to get through a normal day.

This is exactly what Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is built for.

IFS starts from a simple idea: you're not broken, and you're not "too much." You're made up of different parts — the one that overworks, the one that shuts down, the one that panics before a hard conversation — each one trying to protect you, even when it's not working anymore. IFS therapy helps you understand these parts, build a working relationship with them, and lead from the calm, grounded core of who you actually are (what IFS calls Self). Once that shifts, the reactivity, the shutdown, the exhaustion — they stop running your life by default.

You don't need to diagnose yourself before you walk in. You just need to be ready to actually look at this instead of managing around it one more year.

What this looks like in practice

I work with adults — including a lot of fathers — who are done white-knuckling their way through anger, numbness, or burnout, and who are ready to commit to weekly sessions and the work that happens between them. This isn't a space to vent for an hour and feel a little better; it's a space to actually change the pattern.

For some clients, especially those who've done years of talk therapy without getting to the root of things, we also incorporate Psychedelic-Assisted IFS — using IFS as the framework before, during, and after a psychedelic experience to help what surfaces actually integrate and stick, rather than fading in a week. We'll talk through whether that's a fit for you, and there's no pressure either way — plenty of clients do deep, lasting work through standard IFS sessions alone.

If you're ready, here's the next step

If you're nodding along — if you're tired of understanding why you do this and ready to actually change it — book a consultation. We'll talk through what's going on, what working together would look like, and whether it's a fit. If it's not, I'll help point you somewhere that is.