About Yes Collective
Yes Collective is a team of psychologists, therapists, coaches, and healers who use the profoundly powerful yet gentle framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to produce collective experiences that change the course of people’s lives.
We offer experiences ranging from live conscious dance and breathwork events to year-round practice communities to hybrid retreats, all in small cohorts, led by experienced IFS professionals dedicated to nurturing your mental, emotional, and spiritual health, and propelling your personal growth journey.
Internal Family Systems: What it Is and Why It Drives Us
It’s not just a model of psychotherapy; it’s a life-changing practice.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a framework for relating to our inner worlds that sees our minds as naturally made of parts or sub-personalities. And behind these parts is a deep, powerful, and undamaged essence that IFS calls Self, but could also be called Spirit, Soul, or Core.
IFS provides a set of practices and ideas that help us allow for more room in our internal systems for Self, by healing, integrating, and supporting all of our inner parts.
Why we’re driven by IFS
We all have a compassionate, wise Core Self; now we can learn to make space for it.
From the perspective of Internal Family Systems, the idea that we have a single, unified personality or self is the “myth of the mono mind.” Instead, every human mind has many parts or sub-personalities that together makeup who we are and how we manage our lives.
When first hearing of this idea, some people think of dissociative identity disorder (DID), where a person will have many distinct personalities of different ages and genders, and who may not even know the existence of other personalities. According to the IFS model, DID is just an extreme version of the sub-personalities and internal system we all have.
Through IFS practices, we can learn how to come into a loving, supportive relationship with all of our parts (even the ones we’re angry with or scared of). And through building these Self-to-Part relationships, more space is opened inside for our deeper essence (Core Self, Spirit, Soul, or whatever you want to call it).
This opening up of Core Self leads to healing longstanding trauma, rebuilding broken relationships, and bringing more compassion, calmness, clarity, and courage into our daily lives.
Meet the team
Checkout Our IFS-Focused Podcast Episodes.
Over the years, we’ve interviewed some pretty amazing leaders in Internal Family Systems. We talked about healing from trauma, daily IFS tools, parenting, grief, forgiveness, psychedelics and a whole lot more!