Parts Work Therapy: A Path Back to Your True Self
Specializing in Therapy for "Intractable Pain, "Entrenched Issues", "Emotional Wreckage"
Including PTSD, Trauma, Abuse, Depression, and Anxiety
C-PTSD, Emotional or Physical Abuse by Caregiver or Spouse, Sexual Abuse, Emotional/Physical Abandonment,
OCD, Panic Disorders, Grief, Loss, Women's Autism/Asperger's, Chronic Pain/Illness/Injury,
Marriage Counseling, Conscious Couples Healing, Divorce Recovery, Parental Alienation Syndrome,
HSP's or Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Holistic-Spiritually-Based Counseling, Transpersonal, Jungian Hypnotherapy and Dream Work,
Cult or Religious Abuse, Spiritual Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Parts Work (Internal Family Systems)
512-649-0302
Including PTSD, Trauma, Abuse, Depression, and Anxiety
C-PTSD, Emotional or Physical Abuse by Caregiver or Spouse, Sexual Abuse, Emotional/Physical Abandonment,
OCD, Panic Disorders, Grief, Loss, Women's Autism/Asperger's, Chronic Pain/Illness/Injury,
Marriage Counseling, Conscious Couples Healing, Divorce Recovery, Parental Alienation Syndrome,
HSP's or Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Holistic-Spiritually-Based Counseling, Transpersonal, Jungian Hypnotherapy and Dream Work,
Cult or Religious Abuse, Spiritual Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Parts Work (Internal Family Systems)
512-649-0302
What is Parts Work?
 Parts Work
We all have different “parts” inside us: younger versions of ourselves, protective voices, inner critics. Each was born in the moments we faced pain too big to handle. In those moments, our minds did something brilliant: they created these parts to hold the pain and tucked them away, off to the side, so the rest of us could keep going.
Sometimes those tucked-away parts don’t stay quiet, they take over. One part of you longs to move forward, while another slams on the brakes so hard you can’t breathe. One voice says, “Go for it,” and another screams, “If you do, we’ll die.” It can feel like you’re trapped inside a war zone... terrified, exhausted, and wondering why you can’t just “get it together.” Parts Work (officially named 'Internal Family Systems') is a way to meet these parts with compassion, to understand what they’ve been trying to do for you, and to help them relax. When that happens, the conflict quiets down and you finally get to be in charge of your own life again. What Are These Parts Like?
I like to visualize our "parts" as unique personalities, living in their own separate bubble-worlds inside our minds. Each contains its own unique set of feelings, ideas, and beliefs about the way the world works.
You may hear your mind chattering away all day. WE ALL DO THIS. Sometimes the chatter is positive: "You did a great job writing that letter to your boss!" Sometimes the chatter is negative, "You're such an idiot. People can see you're a faker. Nobody else looks like a fool but you." The parts often argue with each other, vying to get heard, and to be RIGHT. This internal argument can cause feelings of confusion, and even hopelessness, like there simply is no answer to our pain. The fact is - there are NO BAD or WRONG PARTS. Even though they may cause us to feel very uncomfortable, in reality, each part of us BELIEVES it is helping us deal with our painful experiences. The problem is that these parts inadvertently cause problems for us in the present - in the form of unwanted behaviors, stories that loop in the mind, intrusive thoughts, self-sabotage, and unresolvable pain. The Magic of Parts Work (Internal Family Systems)When a part finally feels seen and understood, something inside begins to shift. We meet it with compassion instead of judgment. The defenses start to loosen. Those old thoughts that used to hijack you lose their grip. Your priorities change. Life opens up with more authenticity, more curiosity, more ease.
When your parts are cared for and no longer carrying the old burdens, you feel lighter. More whole. More like yourself.
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I’m Paige Bartholomew - a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist with 25 years of clinical experience, and thousands of hours sitting with people in their deepest work.
What sets my work apart is the way I listen for hidden signals in your whole system: body, thoughts, and feelings. We'll even explore the spiritual layer because it’s one of the most potent forces for transformation. This work is about helping the parts of you that were never heard - but so badly wanted to be. It's about uncovering the wisdom that's already present within you, and to learn to access that wonderful intuition of yours. Texas Insurance and Free Consultation offered. → Curious what this work might feel like? Schedule your Free Consultation → Or, explore more about me and my approach on the Home Page |
IFS Isn’t Just a Tool - It’s Personal for Me
For most of my life, I carried pain that nothing seemed to touch. I searched everywhere for something that could help: books, therapies, workshops, spirituality, healing modalities of every kind. Some gave me real insight and relief - for a while - but nothing ever reached the deepest places where the hurt lived.
Then I found Parts Work. For the first time, I felt something shift it that wasn’t temporary. This work helped me meet the parts of myself that were terrified, angry, and wounded. I learned not to push them away, but to actually hear them, care for them by understanding them in ways I never had before and give them what they’d been needing all along.
Internal Family Sytems saved me. It showed me that healing doesn’t have to take decades of circling the same pain. I learned that the pain that feels permanent... isn’t. It can move and it can heal.
This is why I use it so often in my practice. Because I know what it feels like to finally KNOW that the inner war can end.
Then I found Parts Work. For the first time, I felt something shift it that wasn’t temporary. This work helped me meet the parts of myself that were terrified, angry, and wounded. I learned not to push them away, but to actually hear them, care for them by understanding them in ways I never had before and give them what they’d been needing all along.
Internal Family Sytems saved me. It showed me that healing doesn’t have to take decades of circling the same pain. I learned that the pain that feels permanent... isn’t. It can move and it can heal.
This is why I use it so often in my practice. Because I know what it feels like to finally KNOW that the inner war can end.
Your Out-of-Network Texas insurance benefits can make therapy more affordable than you might expect.
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Your Out-of-Network Texas insurance benefits can make therapy more affordable than you might expect.
Click HERE to learn about rates and insurance coverage.