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Dr. Brittney Jones
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Chicago, IL 60602  (Online Only)
I'm a Harvard and Stanford-trained psychologist who helps people with anxiety stop pushing through stress and burnout and live more. Are you so good at pushing through problems that no one notices how much you're struggling? If nothing changed, life would be just plain overwhelming...feeling lost and trapped... and suffocated. It’s miserable feeling like anxiety is taking over, interfering with relationships, work, and feeling just burned out. Enough is enough! If you’re here, you can likely relate. We'll work together to create a life you don't dread.
I'm a Harvard and Stanford-trained psychologist who helps people with anxiety stop pushing through stress and burnout and live more. Are you so good at pushing through problems that no one notices how much you're struggling? If nothing changed, life would be just plain overwhelming...feeling lost and trapped... and suffocated. It’s miserable feeling like anxiety is taking over, interfering with relationships, work, and feeling just burned out. Enough is enough! If you’re here, you can likely relate. We'll work together to create a life you don't dread.
(561) 286-4641 View (561) 286-4641
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Melanie J Thakkar
Psychologist, PsyD, MA
Verified Verified
Chicago, IL 60602
A positive working alliance between a psychologist and patient is crucial for growth and development within the clinical context. Therefore, it is key for each patient to seek out a psychologist whom they feel comfortable and connected with. I offer an initial consultation at no charge in order to determine if the right fit exists. If after a consultation it does not feel like a good fit, then I will help you find a clinician who provides one. As a licensed clinical psychologist, with more than seven years of clinical experience, I have an extensive background working with adolescents, adults, and families.
A positive working alliance between a psychologist and patient is crucial for growth and development within the clinical context. Therefore, it is key for each patient to seek out a psychologist whom they feel comfortable and connected with. I offer an initial consultation at no charge in order to determine if the right fit exists. If after a consultation it does not feel like a good fit, then I will help you find a clinician who provides one. As a licensed clinical psychologist, with more than seven years of clinical experience, I have an extensive background working with adolescents, adults, and families.
(312) 646-4557 View (312) 646-4557
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Payal Patel
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP
Verified Verified
Chicago, IL 60602
My treatment approach is integrative in nature, which includes interpersonal and systemic interventions. I take an integrated, culturally informed, and collaborative approach to therapy. I believe that various contextual and environmental factors can contribute to clients' presentations and strives to help clients achieve a more congruent life.
My treatment approach is integrative in nature, which includes interpersonal and systemic interventions. I take an integrated, culturally informed, and collaborative approach to therapy. I believe that various contextual and environmental factors can contribute to clients' presentations and strives to help clients achieve a more congruent life.
(224) 204-0869 View (224) 204-0869
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Kelley McKeever
Psychologist, Psy D
Verified Verified
Chicago, IL 60602
My life’s work and craft are focused on the importance of nurturing feelings of belonging and life satisfaction in my clients. I believe everyone deserves to live a healthy and balanced life. I work collaboratively with client to achieve balance, find enjoyment, and achieve their life goals. If you are feeling underappreciated, overworked, and unsure how to create positive change in your life, let me work with you.
My life’s work and craft are focused on the importance of nurturing feelings of belonging and life satisfaction in my clients. I believe everyone deserves to live a healthy and balanced life. I work collaboratively with client to achieve balance, find enjoyment, and achieve their life goals. If you are feeling underappreciated, overworked, and unsure how to create positive change in your life, let me work with you.
(708) 340-0949 View (708) 340-0949

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapists

What is Internal Family Systems therapy?

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a type of talk therapy that focuses on sub-personalities, or “families,” within a person, which may be made up of wounded parts and unpleasant emotions like anger and shame. These sub-personalities can come into conflict with each other and with an individual’s core Self, leaving the person feeling detached from positive traits such as the “8 C’s” of confidence, calmness, creativity, clarity, curiosity, courage, compassion, and connectedness. By healing a patient’s wounded parts, a therapist aims to restore balance and bring on positive change.

How does Internal Family Systems therapy work?

An IFS therapist will work with a patient to identify their particular sub-personalities, recognize the emotions powering them, and release them. By doing so, the patient should become more able to address any underlying problems their sub-personalities may have been trying to protect them from. Ultimately, a patient discovers ways to manage internal and external conflicts on their own, through techniques such as relaxation exercises, journaling, and making charts depicting the relationships between their core Self and their distinct parts.

Does Internal Family Systems therapy work?

IFS therapy has been shown to help people address conditions such as depression, anxiety, panic, fears and phobias, trauma, and substance use disorders. Some research has also found that it can help individuals deal with symptoms of physical health conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, such as pain, everyday functioning, depressive feelings, and low self-compassion. There are some conditions for which IFS treatment, specifically discussions of one’s “parts,” may be less appropriate, such as schizophrenia or other states that involve psychosis or paranoia.

How long does Internal Family Systems therapy take?

As with most forms of talk therapy, there is no set duration or end point for IFS therapy. After becoming comfortable with a therapist and the core concepts of IFS, some patients quickly make progress. While experiences vary, most will find that it is a relatively longer-term therapy, involving months and sometimes years of sessions.