Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

IFS therapy is talk therapy based on a theory that everyone’s personality contains multiple “parts,” or sub-personalities, that need space to speak, grieve, and heal. It may help conditions like PTSD.

Internal family systems, or IFS, is a type of therapy that believes we are all made up of several parts or sub-personalities. It draws from structural, strategic, narrative, and Bowenian types of ...