“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
- Charles Dubois
Welcome to Elizabeth Nunley Psychotherapy, a collaborative group practice that offers inclusive, client-centered therapy for adolescents, individuals and couples.
Healing often requires more than just intellectually understanding what brings you to therapy, but means really shining a light into your internal system to see how it works to protect you. We acknowledge the courage needed to explore your inner world and view it as a privilege that you’d consider letting us accompany you on your journey.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (“IFS”) is a modality of therapy that we whole-heartedly believe in. It helps us conceptualize ourselves, our clients and others through a lens of self-compassion and curiosity. IFS invites us to shift what we know and understand intellectually to a more embodied and heart-centered experience of knowing. This work invites us to shift from judging ourselves and the aspects of our personality that can get in our way to wondering about the positive intention underneath the behavior. We also can wonder together about what that behaviors (or “parts”) are protecting and how we might bring healing to what’s underneath what initially brings us to therapy. One of the things that we love most about IFS is that its most foundational premise is that we can trust the innate intuition of our clients and that everyone’s system ultimately knows what it needs in order to heal. IFS is best experienced rather than explained, so we look forward to the journey of helping you shift your relationship with yourself in a deeply transforming way.
You know
so very well
the edge
of darkness
you have
always
carried with you.And you know
too well
by now
the body’s
hesitation
at the invitation
to undo
everything
others seemed
to want to
make you learn.But your edge
of darkness
has always
made
its own definition
secretly
as an edge of lightand the door
you closed
might,
by its very nature
be
one just waiting
to be leant against
and opened.And happiness
might just
be a single step away,
on the other side
of that next
unhelpful
and undeserving
thought.Your way home,
understood now,
not as an achievement,
but as a giving up,
a blessed undoing,
an arrival
in the body
and a full rest
in the give
and take
of the breath.This living
breathing body
always waiting
to greet you
at the door,
always
no matter
the long years
you’ve been
away,
still
wanting you
to come home.