Discover the Truth of Who You Are
Sarah McGowan
Alongside a strong theoretical Psychodynamic foundation gained at Oxford University, I integrate effective methods from a contemporary systemic psychotherapy called Internal Family Systems.
What does this mean?
In practice, psychodynamic psychotherapy offers a way to explore and understand our relationship with past experience, how we develop and the impact that has on us and our relationships today. With this grounding, the progressive techniques of IFS allow me to explore and understand your internal working model: parts of your personality, behaviours and your ways of being, in a revolutionary, transformational way.
How did I get here?
I came to IFS over 6 years ago as a client and found the non-pathologising approach life changing. I had a successful corporate career but I blamed myself for the ways I managed to maintain it, convinced I was the only one with my faults.
Coming to IFS meant that for the first time in years I felt part of the human race. I left my corporate career behind and began my Psychotherapy completing a Psychodynamic Counselling Diploma at Oxford University in tandem with my IFS training.
(Pictured above with founder Dick Schwartz on completion of my IFS Level 3 Training)
Before the pandemic I was fortunate to be trained, in person, by senior IFS lead trainers such as: Paul Ginter, Chris Burris and Cece Sykes (Level 1), Frank Anderson (Level 2), completing my training with Dick Schwartz (Level 3) in 2019.
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