IFS coaching.
To uncover your wholeness.
Learn to meet and melt even your stickiest patterns with love, curiosity and empowerment. Using IFS, somatic work, and presence work, you'll start to discover and live from the depth of yourself that already knows how to confidently navigate the complexities of relationships, passions, purpose and life itself.
This approach is grounded in Aletheia Coaching, a next-generation developmental framework that extends what IFS-style parts work can reach.
Explore Working TogetherThe things this work tends to move
People come to this work for all kinds of reasons. What they tend to have in common is that they have tried to address these things another way, and something has not shifted at the level they were hoping for.
Parts work, woven with somatic and presence-based tools, can reach what insight alone often cannot: the emotional learning that lives below language, in the body's implicit memory.
Relationships & intimacy
Anxious attachment, avoidant shutting down, the push-pull of wanting closeness and fearing it simultaneously. Difficulty with vulnerability, trust, or staying regulated when a relationship feels uncertain.
Self-worth & the inner critic
Chronic self-doubt. The sense of not being quite enough. Overachieving to earn value while privately never fully believing it is working. The gap between how you present and how you actually feel inside.
Anxiety & emotional reactivity
Anxiety that does not respond to logic. Reactions that feel bigger than the situation. Difficulty feeling settled even when life is objectively fine. Emotional numbness or flatness where feeling used to be.
Career & creative blocks
Self-sabotage as things get good. Fear of being truly seen in your work. Difficulty committing to the thing you actually care about. The part of you that holds back from the career or creative life that genuinely excites you.
The missing aliveness
Life looks fine, but there is a flatness. A sense of going through the motions of a life that does not quite feel fully yours yet. This is one of the most common, and least talked about, reasons people come to this work.
Patterns that feel like your identity
Not behaviors you have. Things you feel like you are. So long-standing they seem built in. These are often the ones that respond best to working with parts at a deeper, more embodied level.
Internal Family Systems, and what it opens into
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based model of the mind developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Its central insight has shaped how I work with every client: every part of us, even the most disruptive-seeming ones, has a protective intention. There are no bad parts, only parts stuck in exhausting roles that have never been fully met.
Naming a part, getting curious about it instead of fighting it, helping it feel safe enough to soften: this is the heart of every session I do, and it tends to stay the heart of the work throughout an engagement.
Alongside that, I bring Aletheia Coaching, developed by Steve March as an evolution of IFS. It weaves somatic awareness and presence work into how the parts work unfolds, so it can move more naturally with whatever a part actually needs in the moment.
| Depth | In Standard IFS | In This Approach |
|---|---|---|
| Parts | Identifying parts, unburdening exiles, accessing Self energy. | The same core practice, woven with somatic and presence-based tools as parts unburden. |
| Process | Addressed indirectly, through parts' felt experience. | Brought in directly: the body's sensation & emotion, tracked as part of the parts work itself. |
| Presence | Outside the model's primary scope. | Used to help parts find safety: qualities like strength, clarity & love, met directly when they arise. |
| Nonduality | Outside the model's primary scope. | Present as a rare but real depth that can open within parts work, informed by Tibetan Buddhist traditions. |
IFS was developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. This table reflects how Aletheia Coaching, the framework used in this practice, builds on that foundation; it is not an official IFS Institute comparison.
You were not designed to just manage.
There is a version of healing that is essentially about getting better at coping. Better emotional regulation, cleaner communication, fewer reactions. That is genuinely useful. But real parts work, done with somatic and presence-based depth, can reach further than coping.
The parts of you that have been running protective strategies since childhood are not broken. They do not need to be eliminated. They need to be met. And when they finally are, something underneath them becomes available that no strategy could produce.
Qualities like strength, love, clarity, courage, and creativity are not developed through this work. They are uncovered. They were there before the parts took over. What we are doing is finding our way back to them.
Intimacy without the armor
Real closeness. Not the careful, managed version where part of you is always watching the exit. The kind where you can actually let someone in and stay present while you do it.
Relationships that do not pull you under
The pattern where small things become enormous, or where you shut down completely, loses its grip. You can stay in the room, regulated and present, even in moments that used to feel impossible.
Work you care about, without the constant self-doubt
Creative blocks, fear of being seen, the self-sabotage that arrives just as things get good: these are parts doing their job. When they release, something different becomes possible in your career and creative life.
Self-worth that does not need to be earned
The settled sense that you are enough, as you are, without performing or proving it. Not as a concept you repeat to yourself. As something you actually feel in your body.
The brightness you had forgotten
Wonder. Genuine delight. The sense of being alive in your own life rather than managing it from a careful distance. For many people, this is exactly what returns.
Aletheia Coaching: parts work, made more intuitive
The approach I work within is called Aletheia Coaching, developed by Steve March of Integral Unfoldment as an evolution of Internal Family Systems. It keeps parts work as a central practice and weaves in somatic awareness and presence work so the parts work itself becomes more fluid and more attuned to what each part actually needs in the moment.
Aletheia Coaching recognizes four depths of human experience, and parts work lives at the first of them. The difference is in how the other three depths (process, presence, and nonduality) get folded into the parts work itself, rather than treated as separate territory to move on to afterward.
I am currently completing my training in this framework and have not yet reached certification. The training has already meaningfully shaped how I work with clients at Reparent Yourself, especially in how naturally the work can move between a part's story and the felt, somatic experience underneath it.
In practice, a session centers on parts work throughout: naming a part, getting curious about it, understanding what it protects, helping it unburden. Somatic tracking and presence-based attunement are tools woven into that process, not a separate phase that comes after it.
Depth of Parts (the focus)
The protective and wounded parts shaped by experience. This is the depth Internal Family Systems specializes in, and it stays the center of the work here.
Depth of Process
The body's sensation and emotion, tracked as a part speaks or shifts. Staying with this flow helps parts feel more fully met, without rushing toward meaning.
Depth of Presence
Qualities like strength, clarity, and love that a part can find itself resting into once it feels safe. Not developed through effort. Uncovered, often within the parts work itself.
Depth of Nonduality
A rarer recognition of wholeness that can open spontaneously during deep parts work, pointed to by contemplative traditions across cultures for centuries.
Framework from Steve March's research on Aletheia Coaching, published in The Future of Coaching (2021), and informed by Integral Unfoldment. The nondual depth draws on Tibetan Buddhist Mahamudra traditions referenced in the work of Dr. Daniel P. Brown.
"There was a brightness I had forgotten. This work helped me find my way back to it."— My own experience, and why I do this work
I was fine. And then I found out what was actually possible.
For a long time, my life was okay. Functional. I could point to things that were going well. But there was a flatness underneath it, and a particular stuckness around intimacy, that I could not reason my way out of no matter how well I understood where it came from.
IFS-style parts work changed that. Actually sitting with the parts of me that had shut down around closeness, giving them something they had never received, meeting them with genuine curiosity instead of trying to eliminate them. That is when the inner child work became real for me. Not as a concept, but as an experience. A light came back that I had genuinely forgotten I was missing. Decades of quiet I had not fully registered.
And then I found that certain patterns, the stickiest ones, the ones that felt like aspects of my identity rather than behaviors I had, asked for the parts work to go deeper still. Into the body's felt sense. Into presence. Into something that is harder to name but unmistakable when you touch it.
That is the work I bring to Reparent Yourself. Not because I have arrived somewhere finished, but because I have lived enough of this path to know what it can open. The shift from managing your life to actually inhabiting it is one worth finding your way toward.
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Frequently asked questions
Though the work is built on the same core practice, the coaching I offer is informed by my training in Aletheia, an evolution of IFS that weaves somatic and presence-based tools directly into the parts work itself.
The core practice is the same: working directly with parts, understanding what they protect, and helping them feel safe enough to unburden. What is different is how that work unfolds. Aletheia Coaching, the framework informing this practice, brings somatic tracking and presence-based attunement into the parts work itself, which many people experience as more intuitive and more attuned to what a part actually needs moment to moment.
Aletheia Coaching is a developmental coaching framework created by Steve March that organizes human experience into four depths: parts, process, presence, and nonduality. It was developed as an evolution of Internal Family Systems, keeping parts work central while adding tools for working with the body's felt sense and with deeper qualities of presence, woven into the parts work rather than treated as a separate stage.
No prior experience is required. Some people come having worked extensively with IFS and want to go further. Others have never formally encountered the model but recognize the language of parts immediately, since most people already notice things like the part of me that wants to speak up and the part of me that goes quiet. We begin from wherever you are.
This is coaching, not psychotherapy, and it does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. IFS itself is used in both therapeutic and coaching contexts; the distinction here is about scope and setting, not about which techniques are used. If you are working with or considering a licensed therapist for clinical concerns, this coaching can complement that work but is not a substitute for it.