Parts Work Therapy with the IFS Method

Written By Erin M. Randol

Dr. Richard Schwartz developed the Inernal Family Systems (IFS) Method in response to clients’ experiencing various parts of themselves at different times in their life. He noticed that when these parts felt safe in the client’s body and had felt safer, they were less disturbing. When parts of us feel safe, it allows the client to access the truest version of themselves which Dr. Schwartz calls the “Self” or “Self-Energy.”

IFS therapy believes that all parts have good intentions and all parts are welcome into each therapy session. The goal of parts work is this: once we are able to access Self or Self-Energy, the body and mind feel safe enough to live life with confidence, openness, and compassion.

Erin M. Randol

Erin Randol, MSW, LCSW, is the owner of Sunrise Therapy Services, LLC and a Missouri-based therapist known for working with moms who are tired, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and irritable.

She built Sunrise Therapy Services into a thriving virtual practice serving women across Missouri, with a strong focus on postpartum mental health especially postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum OCD, and the kind of “mom rage” that most people don’t talk about out loud but so many moms quietly experience.

Erin is known for being straightforward, real, and actually helpful. No vague advice, just blunt and honest intervention.

Her work blends EMDR, IFS, ACT and she’s especially known for helping women move through trauma, burnout, ADHD-related overwhelm, anxiety, and the identity shift that comes with motherhood. She also works closely with teens struggling with anxiety, confidence, emotional regulation, and friendship stress.

Over the years, Sunrise Therapy Services has become a trusted space for moms and women who want therapy that feels grounded, practical, and actually effective especially when life feels loud, messy, or out of control.

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