Couples Therapy

“My husband and I struggled with our families’ responses to our marriage because one family was Hindu and the other Muslim. Although neither of us grew up in a particularly religious home, our decision to marry revealed tensions we had not anticipated.

The therapists invited our families into the process. Together, we discovered new ways of understanding love, family and connection while working through conflict. When my husband’s job transferred us out of state, it was difficult to leave this unusually caring community. We remain connected to several of the people we met at IFS.”

“My partner and I are both the oldest children in our families. Because we had helped care for our younger siblings, we assumed parenting would come easily.

We soon faced challenges we had never anticipated—from setting safe limits around phones and digital platforms to navigating friendships with families whose rules were very different from ours. The IFS healing community helped us work together, protect our children’s friendships and establish clear, healthy boundaries around media.”