FAQs

  • To help people foster and nurture their relationships with themselves. From that increased connection to who they are, clients increase their ability to create life plans that are authentic, meaningful, and in connection with others. 

  • Each week we will begin with a meditation and a check in, followed by sharing, processing, and learning about IFS/parts work and self-leadership.

  • It is the ability to set your course, follow it and correct it as you go.

    Self Leadership means living intentionally and fully from your core authentic Self—your true nature—beyond personality, narratives, and historical patterns of behavior.

    ‘Self’ can be recognized by the 8 C’s: Clarity, Creativity Curiosity, Compassion, Confidence, Calmness, Connectedness, and Courage

  • Yes! These sessions are a great way to learn more about IFS and parts work, as well as grow and address issues and problems that you want to change in therapy.

  • Yes! The groups have been designed to complement individual IFS work and foster new experiences with your parts. Individual therapy is different than group therapy. I highly recommend group work to aid you in deepening your relationship with all parts of you and practicing self-led connection with others.

  • Lucy Kozak Cesnik is an expert in adaptive patterns and how those patterns limit a person’s emotional expression, and their ability to connect to themselves, others, and the greater life force of the universe. She holds level 1 certification in IFS. She helps clients explore, identify, and remove constraints to living lives they are proud of in her private practice and in her work at residential treatment centers.

    Lucy has hundreds of hours of experience working with groups and leading groups. Most recently, she was hired to lead a 3 hour weekly Self-leadership IFS group for the clients at Integrative Life Center in Nashville.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

is a unique and powerful way in which to learn about, trust, and love our parts and ourselves, as well as the parts and Self of others.

They always say, ‘You can only love someone as much as you love yourself.’ I always change that expression a little by saying, ‘We can only love someone else’s parts as much as we can love our own.’ It’s a slight variation of that but it’s really true.”
— Pamela Krause, IFS LEAD TRAINER