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IFS therapy Newcastle
Hi, I’m Victoria. I offer IFS Therapy Newcastle area and online for adults navigating depression, anxiety, trauma and relationship challenges. My approach is trauma-informed and draws on Internal Family Systems IFS therapy and inner child work to help you process and gently release emotional pain and trauma.
Through IFS Therapy Newcastle, we work together to process difficult emotions, find inner calm and create emotional stability in your life.
This approach goes beyond traditional talk therapy and offers a holistic, mind-body approach to release trauma, emotional stress and create internal emotional balance.
Whether you’re seeking support for anxiety, depression, trauma, or relational difficulties, my approach is relational, and focused on helping you feel safer and more emotionally regulated in your life.
What is IFS therapy Newcastle?
People who struggle with their mental health and emotional instability often have parts of themselves that get triggered by past experiences that they haven’t yet fully processed or metabolised. These parts carry old pain, fear, or protective patterns, and can influence your mood, behaviour, and relationships without you even realising it.
IFS Therapy Newcastle helps you get to know these parts with openness and curiosity.
This helps you to understand what they are protecting you from, and what they are trying to keep you safe from. By befriending and understanding these parts through meditative states of mind, you can release trauma from the body, calm your nervous system, reduce emotional reactivity, and build lasting emotional stability.
Through Internal Family Systems Therapy Bristol, you learn to respond to your emotions from a place of curiosity, rather than being overwhelmed or controlled by them.
Perhaps you have tried counselling but still struggle with emotional regulation?
Many people who come to work with me have previously tried counselling but haven’t found lasting resolution or sustainable healing.
They may still struggle with depression, anxiety, the ongoing impact of trauma, or find themselves in unhealthy relationship patterns, where they over-extend, self-abandon, or feel overwhelmed and anxious in connection with others.
This often happens because traditional talk therapy doesn’t go deep enough to fully process and release emotional trauma.
While counselling can help build awareness of difficulties, it may not provide a way to heal the underlying emotional wounds and memories that continue to shape your feelings, behaviours, and relationships.
IFS Therapy Newcastle helps you go deeper with the nervous system. It allows you to identify and understand the different “parts” of yourself that are protecting you and saving you from feeling overwhelming emotional pain.
By getting to know what these parts are protecting you from in a compassionate, meditative and body-focused way, you can release stored emotional patterns, calm the nervous system, and build lasting emotional stability.
RELEASE unprocessed emotions
IFS THERAPY NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE helps you to resolve unprocessed emotions
IFS Therapy Newcastle is a body-based therapy that helps to build emotional stability by processing unresolved emotional pain.
It’s helps you to understand the different parts of yourself that are trying to protect or save you from harm.
On the surface, these parts often have difficult emotions and patterns. Underneath the surface, they carry emotional pain from the past. These parts aren’t inherently bad, they’re adaptive coping mechanisms you’ve learned to survive.
IFS Therapy Newcastle helps people to release and unburden emotional pain that parts carry so they can let go of their roles and take on healthier roles.
IFS Therapy Newcastle offers a safe and supportive space to explore these parts with openness and compassion.
Together, we gently identify what your parts are trying to protect you from and process the unprocessed emotional experiences from the past.
Through “befriending” these parts and nervous system patterns, you can experience a deep felt-sense experience of internal appreciation and build internal emotional safety.
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, relational challenges, or the effects of complex trauma, IFS Therapy Newcastle can help you:
- Understand emotional patterns that influence your life
- Create emotional safety and stability
- Release trauma or difficult experiences that continues to affect you
- Build a compassionate relationship with yourself
- Improve emotional regulation
- Grow in self-confidence and self-assuredness
IS IFS THERAPY RIGHT FOR YOU?
Signs you may benefit from ifs therapy
You might find IFS Therapy Newcastle helpful if you:
- Struggle with depression or low mood
- Have difficulties with anxiety
- Struggle with emotional regulation
- Have difficulty setting or maintaining healthy boundaries
- Feel emotionally triggered in relationships
- Over-extend and feel responsible for others
- Identify as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and often feel emotionally overwhelmed
What Makes IFS Therapy Different to talk therapy?
Create long-lasting emotional stability
IFS Therapy Newcastle differs from traditional talk therapy because it is somatic and body-focused, not just cognitive.
While traditional therapy often focuses on thoughts and conversations about experiences, IFS works with the parts of yourself that hold emotions, memories, and protective patterns in your body and nervous system.
Instead of seeing parts as symptoms, we get to know the positive intent of parts and what they’re trying to protect us and save us from – often from re-experiencing emotional pain.
This process of “befriending” parts parts heals the nervous system and creates sustainable healing.
By getting to know the parts and their positive intent, we build internal self-compassion and an anchor of emotional stability.
By working with these parts directly and building relationships with them (rather than only talking about symptoms), you can develop a deeper understanding of yourself, calm your nervous system, and build lasting emotional stability.
trauma and the body
Often, “the body keeps the score.”
When life altering experiences overwhelm the nervous system, the emotional and physical responses connected to them can remain held in the body rather than fully processed and released.
This may show up as anxiety, panic, feeling on edge, chronic stress, tension, chronic pain, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, numbness, dissociation, or feeling stuck in survival patterns such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown.
Over time, these patterns can affect mood, relationships, and overall emotional well-being.
Through IFS Therapy Newcastle, we work with the body as well as the mind. By gently noticing sensations, emotions, and the ways your nervous system responds, we can begin to understand the parts of you that are protecting you from past harm.
This helps to release tension, stored emotional energy from the body to calm the nervous system and improve mental wellbeing.
Working with trauma in this way allows clients to:
- Understand how past experiences influence present emotions and behaviours
- Recognise and befriend protective parts that carry trauma
- Develop tools to regulate the nervous system and emotional responses
- Build safety, resilience, and lasting emotional stability
By connecting mind and body in therapy, IFS Therapy Newcastle provides a holistic approach to healing trauma, helping you move from reactivity and overwhelm to a greater sense of balance and self-compassion.
What Presentations Can IFS Therapy Newcastle Help with?
Heal Nervous System Patterns
Depression, anxiety, trauma, and emotional instability are often linked to patterns held within the body and nervous system. When experiences overwhelm our capacity to cope, the nervous system can store emotional responses and nervous system patterns.
These protective parts can then become activated in the present day, responding as if past dangers are still happening, even when those responses may no longer serve you.
IFS Therapy Newcastle can be particularly helpful for people experiencing:
Depression: low mood and self-critical thoughts that feel stuck in the body
Anxiety: chronic worry, tension, hyper-vigilance and feeling on edge
Trauma: complex or relational trauma that continues to influence your nervous system
Emotional instability: mood swings, overwhelm, or difficulty regulating feelings
Relationship challenges: people-pleasing, boundary struggles, over-giving, or carrying others’ emotional burdens
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs): deeply experiencing emotions and easily overwhelmed by stress
Chronic pain or tension linked to past emotional experiences
Feeling disconnected from your body or emotions
By working with both the mind and body, IFS therapy helps you integrate unprocessed experiences, calm the nervous system, and develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself. This holistic approach at IFS therapy Newcastle supports lasting emotional stability and nervous system regulation.
common presentations treated
No. 01
Depression
Depression can involve persistent low mood and loss of motivation and through IFS therapy Newcastle, we gently explore and heal underlying emotional pain and nervous system overwhelm contributing to these feelings.
No. 02
Generalised anxiety disorder
Anxiety often presents as constant worrying, overthinking, or feeling on edge, and IFS therapy Newcastle helps you understand and calm the protective parts driving anxiety while supporting nervous system regulation.
No. 03
trauma
Trauma can develop from overwhelming or emotionally unsafe experiences, and IFS therapy Newcastle supports the safe processing of stored emotional pain while helping restore a sense of safety, stability, and connection.
Testimonial
"I've had years of different therapy and nothing has ever got to the root of my issues like what you've introduced me to"
“I just wanted to thank you firstly, for all the incredible sessions. You’ve made a massive difference to my inner children. I’m understanding myself better and I’m checking in with them and some of them are pretty much healed now. So thank you, thank you. Like I’ve said before, I’ve had years of different therapy and nothing has ever got to the root of my issues like what you’ve introduced me to so thank you. I’m very, very grateful to have found you and for all the incredible help you gave me. And I’ve had almost 40 years of just not feeling good enough and my inner critic ruling and I’ve really learned to love my inner children and understand where they’re coming from and I’ve just got a very different relationship with myself now and I don’t feel petrified of people anymore”.
Testimonial
I was fortunate to walk this path with my therapist, Vicky - a presence so calm, grounded, and steady that she created the safety I needed to grow, untangle, and release.
Over the past year, I committed to one of the most transformative journeys of my life: healing my inner child. I was fortunate to walk this path with my therapist, Vicky -a presence so calm, grounded, and steady that she created the safety I needed to grow, untangle, and release. Through this journey, layers of fear began to dissolve. I confronted limiting beliefs I didn’t even know I carried. I let go of inner blockages that had shaped my reactions, my expectations, and the way I received the world. With each session, something softened… and something strengthened.
This work liberated me. I found myself living, working, and connecting from a clearer, freer place. My meaningful relationships became richer and more authentic. The questions that once weighed heavily on my heart finally had space to breathe – and the clarity that emerged was invaluable. Inner child work is not instant. It peels gently, a layer at a time, and each layer reveals a deeper truth. But the unfolding is worth it. I am deeply grateful for this experience. It was exceptional – a gift I didn’t know I needed and I would recommend it to anyone seeking deeper alignment, peace, and a fuller sense of self.
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General information
IFS Therapy Newcastle is based on the idea that we all have different “parts” within us. These parts often develop as ways of helping us cope with difficult experiences, relationships, or emotions. Sometimes, however, these parts can become stuck in patterns that create distress, anxiety, low mood, or relationship difficulties.
In IFS Therapy Newcastle, we gently explore your thoughts, feelings, and life experiences, both past and present to better understand these different parts of your inner world. We work at a safe and manageable pace to help you notice how certain emotions, beliefs, or reactions may be connected to earlier experiences.
As therapy progresses, we often begin to uncover and understand parts of you that may hold painful memories, unmet needs, or strong emotions that have been pushed aside or protected over time.
By bringing compassionate attention and understanding to these experiences, many people find that these parts begin to feel less overwhelming or controlling.
Over time, this process helps reduce the influence that past experiences may have on your current mood, behaviour, and relationships. The aim of IFS therapy is to support a deeper sense of self-understanding, emotional balance, and lasting change.
If you are considering IFS Therapy Newcastle and would like to explore whether it feels right for you, you are welcome to get in touch.
It can be difficult to know at the beginning exactly how long therapy will last, as everyone’s experiences, goals, and pace of change are different.
At the start of our work together, we will talk about what you hope to gain from therapy and consider a realistic timeframe. We will also review progress together at regular intervals to make sure therapy continues to feel helpful and aligned with your needs.
Many people begin to notice positive shifts earlier on, but meaningful and lasting change often takes time. For deeper therapeutic work, IFS psychotherapy commonly involves a commitment of anywhere between around 6 months and 3 years.
Our aim is always to support improvement as early as possible, while working at a pace that feels safe, steady, and sustainable for you.
I aim to create a therapeutic space that feels relaxed, welcoming, and safe. I value therapy feeling different from a clinical or medical environment. Many people worry that therapy might feel formal, intimidating, or uncomfortable, and I work intentionally to create a space where you can feel at ease being yourself.
Sessions are guided by you. You’re welcome to bring whatever feels most important, whether that’s something current, something from your past, or simply how you’re feeling in the moment. My role is to listen carefully, support exploration, and gently help you understand patterns, emotions, and experiences that may be affecting you.
I often work with people who are highly sensitive, empathic, gentle and attuned to others. Many of my clients identify as Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and may find themselves naturally caring for others’ needs, sometimes at the expense of their own.
Clients I work with frequently notice patterns such as people pleasing, over-extending themselves, over-functioning in relationships, or finding it difficult to set and maintain boundaries. Over time, these patterns can contribute to experiences of anxiety, depression, burnout and nervous system collapse.
I also work with many people who have experienced complex or developmental trauma, particularly those who grew up in environments where emotional safety, consistency, or understanding may have been limited. These early experiences can often shape how someone relates to themselves and others in adulthood.
My work often focuses on supporting Highly Sensitive People who are working through the impact of complex trauma, helping them develop healthier boundaries, reconnect with their own needs, and build more balanced and fulfilling relationships.
I support clients with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties, particularly those connected to trauma, relational patterns, and emotional overwhelm.
Some of the experiences clients commonly bring include:
Anxiety and chronic worry
Low mood or depression
Burnout and emotional exhaustion
Difficulties with boundaries and people pleasing
Relationship and attachment difficulties
Low self-worth or harsh self-criticism
Feeling overwhelmed by emotions
Patterns of over-functioning or feeling responsible for others
Effects of complex or developmental trauma
Difficulties linked to childhood emotional neglect or inconsistent caregiving
Feeling stuck in repeated life or relationship patterns
- Emotional abuse
Although it can feel natural to want to go straight to your inner child parts, this can sometimes cause overwhelm or re-traumatisation. In IFS Therapy Newcastle, it’s important to first build safety and get to know your protective parts. These are the parts of you that are trying to keep you safe. This part of the process is just as important as working with wounded parts.
Working through resistance and protective patterns gradually helps create a sense of stability and safety in your nervous system. With the support of a skilled therapist, you can approach painful emotions and inner child work safely, at a pace that feels manageable, so healing becomes possible without feeling overwhelmed.
During consultation, you’ll be asked about reasons for seeking therapy with brief information about the presentations you’re struggling with to determine if I am a right fit for your needs. I will talk through my style and approach to therapy and guide you through how to book your first appointment.
get in touch today
Please share your availability and therapy requirements.
I will be in touch to arrange a free 15-minute consultation where we will discuss your reasons for seeking therapy and you can get a feel for whether Internal Family Systems Therapy is right for you.