IFS Therapy & Therapeutic Reiki
Welcome to InnerExpanse
Hello, I’m Zoë. My therapy practice is guided by the Internal Family Systems model (IFS), polyvagal theory, attachment theory and an awareness of the energy body.
I support my clients to become adept internal listeners and responders who build safety in their close relationships, professional environments and communities, from the nervous system up.
When painful experiences are pushed outside of our conscious awareness, we experience their shadows as emotional and physical discomfort.
Self-love is a practice of not denying any part of ourselves a home.
What I believe
- The body can act as a loudspeaker for our unrecognized and exiled feelings.
- Familial, societal, environmental and political structures shape our internal systems. A crucial part of the therapy process is naming and confronting oppressive forces that operate in the world around us, and which may have become internalized.
- Deep healing work can be done within the therapy container. And, much of it also happens in connection, in community, and in being witnessed and recognized by those we love.
Areas of focus
- De-programming socialized patterns of people-pleasing
- Recovering from caregiver burnout/ empathic distress
- Recovering from co-dependency/enmeshment
- Restoring interpersonal and professional boundaries
- Unlearning urgency, scarcity, shame and perfectionism in white supremacy culture
- De-programming internalized sexism and misogyny
- Early attachment trauma
Who I work with
- Professionals in the health and human services field and caregivers of all kinds
- Highly sensitive people and empaths
- LGBTQA+
- Poly & ENM
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