If you’re considering couples therapy in OKC (or online anywhere in Oklahoma), here’s what the first session typically looks like—and how to prepare.

There’s a lot of talk these days in IFS circles about training – who’s authorized, who’s “certified,” who’s truly qualified to teach or practice Internal Family Systems. Scroll through social media long enough and you’ll see it: therapists introducing themselves with titles like “Level 3-trained” or “the only certified IFS therapist in my area.” There’s a kind of quiet hierarchy in those words – an implication that certification equals mastery, that the Institute’s blessing equals embodied...

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can be beautiful. They can also be brutal. For those whose lives fit neatly inside the Hallmark frame – the...