IFS THERAPY | SUMMIT COUNTY, COLORADOPart of you wants to stop. Part of you keeps going.
IFS therapy for people who are tired of fighting themselves.
You know where it comes from. And it keeps happening anyway.
That gap between knowing and changing is exactly what Internal Family Systems therapy works with. Not by helping you think differently about the problem, but by working directly with the parts of you that are still running old strategies for reasons that stopped making sense a long time ago.
People who do IFS work describe something shifting. Not that the hard parts of themselves disappeared, but that they stopped being at war with them. That internal quiet, when it arrives, tends to change everything else.
You already understand the pattern.
What keeps pulling you back into the same pattern:
The critic that never lets up. The part that shuts down when something gets too close. The one that reaches for a drink or picks a fight or disappears into work before you know what's happening. These are not character flaws. They are parts of you that developed specific strategies because at some point, in some context, those strategies worked.
IFS does not ask you to argue with or override them. It asks what they are protecting, and whether they still need to work this hard.
What actually changes:
People describe this differently, but a few things come up consistently.
The emotional reactivity settles. Not because you have gotten better at managing it, but because the part producing it has finally been heard. The relationship with yourself shifts from something adversarial to understanding. The things that used to take over start to have less grip.
One person put it this way after years of this work: every pattern, every self-sabotage, every fear of hope and fear of intimacy, those aspects I once despised, were merely attempts to protect me. Acknowledging that freed me in a way nothing else had.
That is the shift. And it tends to hold.
How I work and what a session looks like:
IFS is an approach that reaches the places where skills alone cannot.
We are not talking about the pattern in general terms. We are paying attention to a specific part, in this session, and building a relationship with it that changes how your internal system operates over time.
I integrate IFS with EMDR and somatic work depending on what each session calls for.
The three approaches reach different layers, and combining them tends to produce more lasting change than any one alone.
I’m Laura Landrum
Hi there,
LCSW, LAC, MSW, MPH
I work with adults and teens who have a sense that something is getting in the way and want to actually figure out what it is. A lot of my clients have tried therapy before. They're self-aware, they've done the reading, and the talking has only gotten them so far. That's usually a sign the work needs to go somewhere the words haven't reached yet.
I'm interested in what's underneath the patterns. Why do you keep doing the thing you don't want to do? What from the past is still showing up in your present? How do you build a steadier relationship with yourself so you're not just managing, but actually moving through it? Those are the questions I find most worth sitting with.
I bring EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapy into this work because I've seen what happens when people stop trying to think their way out of things and start working with what the body already knows.
I'm certified in EMDR and currently completing my IFS certification. I've put real time into these approaches because I've watched them do things that conversation alone couldn't.
I also bring myself into the room. I'm direct, I'm curious, and I'm not going to pretend I have all the answers. What I can promise is that I'll stay, I'll pay attention, and whatever you're holding, I can hold it with you.
If you're thinking about reaching out, that instinct is worth paying attention to. Most people who end up here spent a while wondering if they should. You don't have to have it figured out before you contact me. That's what the first conversation is for.
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If that describes where you are, reach out. The first conversation is a conversation, not a commitment, and you do not need to have it figured out before you get in touch.
