Family systems therapy, also called family therapy, is a psychotherapy treatment that focuses on the relationships between family members. Family systems therapy uses a different approach than many ...

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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.

To some, internal family systems, or IFS, may only be familiar as a therapy anacronym for another approach to trauma treatment. To the more concrete-minded, it sounds wonky that there’s a “family” ...