Parts-informed therapy

Parts-informed therapy is a gentle, powerful approach that helps you make sense of what’s happening inside you, especially after trauma, betrayal, emotional neglect, or relational pain.

When you’ve been through difficult experiences, it can feel like you’re made up of contradictions.

One part of you may feel strong and clear… while another feels frozen.

One part may want to leave… while another still longs.

One part may feel angry… while another feels ashamed.

This can be confusing, exhausting, and isolating.

But it’s not a sign that you’re broken.

It’s a sign that your system adapted.

Parts-informed therapy offers a way to understand these inner experiences with compassion, rather than judgement, and to begin creating safety within yourself again.

We all have different parts of ourselves.

They are natural inner responses that develop across life, especially when we’ve had to survive, cope, or stay safe.

Parts might show up as:

• the anxious part that overthinks and scans for danger
• the part that people-pleases to keep connection
• the part that shuts down or goes numb
• the part that feels rage and wants justice
• the part that carries shame or self-blame
• the part that still hopes, even after betrayal
• the part that feels stuck, confused, or exhausted

Even the parts that feel frustrating are usually protective.

They formed for a reason.

Trauma and relational wounds often create internal conflict.

You might find yourself:

• caught in rumination, replaying what happened
• doubting yourself and your instincts
• swinging between anger and grief
• wanting to move on but feeling unable to let go
• feeling hypervigilant, unsafe, or emotionally shut down

These are not personality flaws.

They are nervous system responses, and parts trying to protect you from pain, danger, abandonment, or shame.

Parts-informed therapy helps you slow down and understand what’s happening inside, so you can stop fighting yourself and begin healing.

This work is not about “fixing” you

You are not broken.

Parts-informed therapy isn’t about getting rid of parts of you.

It’s about helping the parts of you feel heard, understood, and safe enough to soften.

When parts no longer have to work so hard, you experience:

• more calm and steadiness
• less shame and self-blame
• clearer boundaries
• deeper self-trust
• greater emotional freedom
• a stronger sense of wholeness

This is healing at the root, not just coping at the surface.

In my work, I integrate parts-informed therapy with Brainspotting, often referred to as Parts-Spotting.

This combination is powerful because it supports both understanding (what is happening inside you and why), and processing (helping the nervous system release what it’s been holding).

Sometimes we can clearly identify the part that is activated: the anxious part, the angry part, the ashamed part, but talking alone doesn’t always shift things.

That’s where Brainspotting can help.

By locating the brainspot connected to that part’s activation, the nervous system can process at a deeper level, often beyond words, allowing:

• stuck emotions to move
• protective patterns to soften
• internal safety to strengthen
• self-trust to return

You don’t need to force anything.

We listen to what your system is ready for, and we move at your pace.

Parts-informed therapy is collaborative, gentle, and deeply respectful.

In our sessions, we may:

• identify which parts are showing up most strongly
• explore what each part is trying to protect you from
• understand the emotions and beliefs it carries
• bring compassion to the places that have felt alone
• process what’s held in the body using Brainspotting
• support integration, grounding, and internal stability

You stay in control throughout.

This is your healing, your pace, your process.

This approach can be especially supportive if you:

• feel stuck in repeating patterns
• struggle with self-blame, shame, or inner criticism
• feel disconnected, numb, or emotionally overwhelmed
• have experienced betrayal or relational trauma
• have lived through emotional neglect, manipulation, or coercive control
• want deeper healing than insight alone can offer

If your inner world feels messy, loud, or conflicted - you’re not alone.

This work helps you make sense of it, gently and safely.

A gentle reminder

Your parts are not the problem.

They are often the places in you that carried what was too much, too soon, or too alone.

When those parts are met with compassion and safety, something begins to shift.

You don’t have to fight yourself anymore.

You can come home to yourself.

If you’re tired of fighting yourself, stuck in overthinking, shutdown, shame, or emotional overwhelm, you don’t have to do this alone.

Parts-informed therapy (integrated with Brainspotting) offers a gentle way to understand what’s happening inside you, process what you’ve been holding, and begin to feel safer within yourself again.

This has been your experience - it is not your identity.

Healing is possible, and you deserve to heal.