internal family systems Mentoring
As a Level 3 Certified IFS Practitioner, expert in women's spiritual leadership, and trained intuitive, I’ve supported thousands of women to unburden the inner parts that keep them stuck — the people-pleaser, the self-doubter, the overachiever, the one afraid to be seen.
Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) — with feminine spirituality and intuitive guidance woven in as needed — we meet these parts not to fix or override them, but to understand, care for them, and return leadership to your Self.
IFS mentoring is for women who want to:
– Reconnect to their truth
– Transform fear into faith, and self-doubt into embodied confidence
– Heal the roots of burnout, over-functioning, or not-enoughness
– Access clarity without bypassing the mess
– Reclaim inner spaciousness, freedom, and flow
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about reclaiming the wholeness that was never lost — and leading from it.
For any woman ready to rise into a new level of embodied leadership — in life, relationships, work, and Self.
(Note: This is not business coaching. If you're seeking support with business strategy or structure, I offer a separate container for that work — you can explore it here.)
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— Bethany O'Connor;
Burnout & Resilience Coach
“Mentoring with Sara was truly a life-changing experience. Thanks to Sara, I feel so much lighter, more confident, and more self-compassionate.”
— Heather Parsons
"Working with Sara using IFS has been healing and enlightening. Sara holds a safe space to work with the past and address underlying issues. She is compassionate, intelligent, and mindful. I have been able to untangle a lot of my early childhood trauma and have found more peace and resolve.
I have gone further with my healing using IFS with Sara, than a decade with talking therapy. I highly recommend working with Sara and am so grateful she has chosen to use IFS to help others.
— Anonymous
“I was suffering from PTSD from an emotionally abusive relationship I left after 19 years with a narcissist. Old patterns surfaced as a result of childhood trauma that were causing me great pain and confusion. I was feeling helpless and was desperate for change. I am most grateful for discovering Sara and her IFS therapy. The intense collaboration with Sara, through her wisdom, gentle guidance and skill at holding space, are qualities I value and appreciate so much. Through digging deep, reflecting, discovering truths, and the hardest work I’ve ever done, I was inspired and found the light again.
Through all the tears, I found joy and hope in every single session. Reuniting me with my intuition is the greatest gift that came out of my sessions along with gaining a sense of wholeness and self compassion. In returning to myself, I became stronger and now know how to set and hold boundaries. Practice is key. Throughout my life, I have experienced different healing modalities to heal trauma. IFS with Sara has been most profound for me."
—Heidi Rose Robbins
Poet & Astrologer
"Sara is a true gift. The work with IFS has been a deep, releasing and transformative experience. I feel a great spaciousness and self compassion after each session. The work makes room for my best self to step forward into the light of day and breathe. All the pain and fear has a name and is treated with great understanding and care. I feel deeply fortunate to have worked with Sara in this modality. It is an invitation to come forth in greater light, clarity and power."
— Carrie Haynes
LPC, EMDR Trained
“I reached out to Sara for mentoring and have really benefited from my work with her. In my sessions, she is able to clearly see when I am in a "part" and to engage with that part compassionately. Often, I will show up with what I think might be a logistical question and she has skillfully supported me in noticing the deeper process at play. With her guidance, I can connect with the vulnerable parts of me and offer healing, which then opens up more access to my true nature and innate wisdom.
Doing this work has helped me to feel more centered, clear, and connected to myself. As a result, I have been moving forward with increased confidence and ease. Sara is a skillful, compassionate, and gentle guide. If you want to get out of your own way-work with Sara! The combination of IFS therapy and Sara's presence is powerful medicine.”
— Lauren Garvey;
Founder of the TackHack
"Working with Sara was transformational. As a visual person, I had been intrigued by IFS as a healing modality. I reached out to Sara at a time where I felt like traditional therapy had become a bit stale for me. This work has been invaluable in helping me navigate my relationship with Self and others. I very much appreciate the impact that working with Sara has had."
— Brittany Bares
“Mentoring with Sara left a profound impact on my emotional, mental & spiritual health. Her guidance is skillfully crafted & intuitively led. As a therapist myself, I was impressed with her consistent ability to create a safe space of exploration, while guiding me directly to the places I needed to go. I highly recommend working in any capacity with Sara!”
— Kate Ballo
"Working with Sara has been a true delight. I signed up to do this work with her on a whim. I had no idea what to expect and I didn’t even really investigate what IFS was all about. Having read her books and having been in her community for a while, I just knew that if it was something that helped her on her healing path and that she is now committed to sharing with others, this would be a blessing in my life.
And it has been. The way Sara reflected to me what I was describing and how I was feeling was always accurate and clarifying. She also emanates a beautiful calm, grounded energy that helped me feel safe to share. She also has the adept ability to hold space for when I was approaching feelings that i wasn't as comfortable exploring—always making sure that I wasn't pushing myself but also making the path to feeling them more accessible.
There is one session in particular that I felt was the most powerful. She helped me find peace with something that I found so deeply conflicting within myself… and she helped guide me into a visualization that I know without a shadow of a doubt, helped me to manifest a true heart’s desire. My dog, Hope.
Thank you Sara for this precious work that you do and for being a beacon of light in this world."
— Cynthia
"Working with Sara in the realm of IFS has been like being held in a sanctuary of safety and respect while exploring my innermost emotional and somatic selves. We looked at some long-held ways I’ve experienced life with such loving tenderness, and effortless deep healing occurred.
Starting out I didn’t have a set goal other than to smooth out some rough areas and recurrent patterns that I couldn’t heal with coaching or other approaches. Through our work together I learned to embrace ways of responding/reacting to life that I thought were ‘just the way I am’ with my loving inner self and I feel more integrated as I go through my day. If you are considering working with Sara – consider no longer and do it!"
— Catie Fenn;
Women's Coach & Online Educator
"My experience with IFS was truly illuminating. Over time, I was able to learn about how my 'system' operates from a new lens that helped me to find new breakthroughs to leave from an even more open, compassionate, and authentic place.
What is different now for me is that I feel a lot safer to explore deeper realms of myself because I now know how to integrate those experiences and which 'protectors' might be active. I also feel more empowered to live life from an embodied place. I also loved watching some 'protectors' shift into their 'unburdened' roles to actually do things that really help support me! As a result of the work, I have more compassion for myself and my parts, which has allowed me to have more compassion for others too.
Sara created a safe, grounded place to gently help me explore these parts of myself. I would highly recommend Sara as an IFS guide!"
— Courtney
"I have followed Sara and her work for years, have gone on retreat with her in the past, and trust her as a teacher and guide - so I knew that whatever unfolded in the IFS sessions would be what it needed to be. I'm so glad I followed my gut! I've done a lot of personal growth work and self-reflection in the past, but always had a sense that there was an inner plateau that I struggled to move past. There are patterns that repeatedly show up that I am aware of but really struggle to work through on my own - particularly around security/stability and the things my inner critical voice speaks to me about.
IFS has helped me connect with parts of myself that I recognize as the origin points of some of these patterns. In my sessions with Sara, memories and feelings started to come up from earlier times in my life, and I have been able to connect with the parts of myself who worked hard to manage my experience and reality at the time, parts who have never really had the space and support to process those experiences.
I'm grateful for this experience and the opportunities it's given me to provide this space and support to myself. I can't recommend Sara and her work enough."
— MG
"I didn't fully know what to expect when I signed up to work w/ Sara using IFS. This experience has felt like being exposed to this inner world/family who all want what is best for me and sometimes these parts contradict one another.
Sara holds a safe and nonjudgmental container to allow these repressed and/or underrepresented parts of myself to reveal themselves and allow these parts to share their brave voices and deepest thoughts. I feel as though I'm stepping away from this experience with more compassion for myself.
I would recommend this modality to anyone who is curious about their inner parts and wants to understand themselves more deeply."
— Sara Heisler
"The work I have done with Sara in IFS Therapy is the most transformational healing I’ve experienced thus far. I tried many forms of therapies before this and had minimal or no results. If you are ready to rip the band-aid off and reconnect with your true self, book a series of IFS sessions with Sara. She leads sessions in such a way that allows me to feel safe and supported to ease into exploring the deepest depths of each of my parts.
Each of my sessions with Sara has allowed my parts to feel unburdened and as I continue to work with her, I feel that my inner system is becoming more healthy and harmonious. Truly life-changing!"
— Elena;
Acupuncturist
"Amazing, sensitive, and astute guidance by Sara. Safe and open container for doing deep work. Effective and in-the-moment facilitation of deep issues. Dramatic insights without drama! Thank you, Sara. You are gifted and guided by the highest energy."
When we access this state of being and bring it to the parts of ourselves that have been cut off from it for years (and often decades), old traumas can receive the love they’ve always needed and we begin to heal at the deepest level.
With IFS, we work with those parts of you that can become extreme and overwhelm you so you can access more of your Self energy.
Spiritual practices help to lead us to this space inside. Yet, old wounds and traumas also bury this Self within us, making our own healing clarity hard to access at times, especially when we’re triggered or under stress.
When we experience hardship and trauma and don’t have the support we need to help us through, parts of us become wounded and begin to hold burdens. As we get older, these burdened parts take on extreme roles that go through great measures to protect the young, wounded parts of us that they locked away long ago.
Amidst all of this, we all have a place inside of us (that IFS calls our Self) that has never been wounded and can handle anything life serves us. From this central place within, we experience more expansive states of being like calmness and compassion, confidence and courage.
IFS’s core premise is that we have a multiplicity of personalities, or “parts,” within us and that all parts of us are fundamentally good.
An evidence-based psycho-spiritual therapeutic model and spiritual practice that’s non-demonizing & non-pathologizing
Introduction to Internal Family Systems
WHAT IS IFS?
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