Internal Family Systems Therapy & Courses
Welcome to Connection Heals
A space for personal healing, professional learning, and deeper connection through Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Internal Family Systems Therapy & Courses
Welcome to Connection Heals
A space for personal healing, professional learning, and deeper connection through Internal Family Systems (IFS).
I’m Stephanie Mitchell, a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist, teacher, and consultant.
I offer a deeply compassionate, non-pathologising, relational holding space for clients and students to bring all of themselves to the process of learning, growth and ultimately healing.
Working outside the diagnositc frameworks of psychiatry, I am most interested in how a person understands their experiences, and how we can be co-explorers on their journey together.
Through individual IFS therapy, advanced workshops, experiential retreats, consultation, and ongoing professional mentoring, I support people to turn inward to find themselves. Change and healing naturally arise from that.
I’m Stephanie Mitchell, a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist, teacher, and consultant.
I offer a deeply compassionate, non-pathologising, relational holding space for clients and students to bring all of themselves to the process of learning, growth and ultimately healing.
Working outside the diagnositc frameworks of psychiatry, I am most interested in how a person understands their experiences, and how we can be co-explorers on their journey together.
Through individual IFS therapy, advanced workshops, experiential retreats, consultation, and ongoing professional mentoring, I support people to turn inward to find themselves. Change and healing naturally arise from that.
- Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist
- Specialist in Complex trauma and Non-Ordinary States
- Teacher & Supervisor
- 100+ hours of in-person training with Dr Richard Schartz
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist
Specialist in Complex trauma and Non-Ordinary States
Teacher & Supervisor
100+ hours of in-person training with Dr Richard Schwartz
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist
Specialist in Complex trauma and Non-Ordinary States
Teacher & Supervisor
100+ hours of in-person training with Dr Richard Schwartz
EXPLORE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY & COURSES
EXPLORE OUR OFFERINGS
Whether you’re seeking support for your personal healing, looking to deepen your IFS practice, or hoping to connect with a community of fellow practitioners, there are different ways to work and learn together.
IFS Workshops &
Advanced Courses
Deepen your understanding &
expand your skills through advanced, experiential courses in Internal Family Systems
Experiential
IFS Retreats
Create space for your own healing through guided experiential work, reflection, and connection with others.
Relational IFS
in Action
Real sessions, thoughtful reflection. Ongoing learning in a supportive community of practitioners.
Individual Therapy
& Consultation
Support for your personal and professional journey with Stephanie.
EXPLORE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY & COURSES
EXPLORE OUR OFFERINGS
Whether you’re seeking support for your personal healing, looking to deepen your IFS practice, or hoping to connect with a community of fellow practitioners, there are different ways to work and learn together.
IFS Workshops &
Advanced Courses
Deepen your understanding &
expand your skills through advanced, experiential courses in Internal Family Systems
Experiential
IFS Retreats
Create space for your own healing through guided experiential work, reflection, and connection with others.
Relational IFS
in Action
Real sessions, thoughtful reflection. Ongoing learning in a supportive community of practitioners.
Individual Therapy
& Consultation
Support for your personal and professional journey with Stephanie.
EXPLORE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY & COURSES
Upcoming IFS Workshops & Retreats in 2027
Opportunities to Learn, Explore & Connect
Join me for online IFS workshops, advanced professional training, and experiential retreats that explore the depth of Internal Family Systems.
My approach goes beyond learning techniques. Together, we explore how to use the therapeutic relationship with in the IFS framework, to deepen and fast track healing.
Shame & Grace
A 4-Week Experiential Online Mini-Retreat
🗓️ January 20 – February 10, 2027
A compassionate, experiential exploration of the parts who use or carry shame. Through meditation, parts mapping, journaling and group sharing.
Nuance & Attunement in the IFS model
Deepening the Art of Relational IFS
🗓️ April – June 2027
An advanced course exploring the subtleties of working with even your most challenging clients, from a place of open hearted compassion, clarity and connection.
IFS for Psychosis, Bipolar & OCD
Understanding Non-Ordinary Experiences through IFS
🗓️ Starting September 2027
A compassionate exploration of voices, visions, intrusive experiences and other non-ordinary states, through an IFS lens.
EXPLORE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY & COURSES
Upcoming IFS Workshops & Retreats in 2027
Opportunities to Learn, Explore & Connect
Join me for online IFS workshops, advanced professional training, and experiential retreats that explore the depth of Internal Family Systems.
My approach goes beyond learning techniques. Together, we explore how to use the therapeutic relationship with in the IFS framework, to deepen and fast track healing.
Shame & Grace
A 4-Week Experiential Online Mini-Retreat
🗓️ January 20 – February 10, 2027
A compassionate, experiential exploration of the parts who use or carry shame. Through meditation, parts mapping, journaling and group sharing.
Nuance & Attunement in the IFS model
Deepening the Art of Relational IFS
🗓️ April – June 2027
An advanced course exploring the subtleties of working with even your most challenging clients, from a place of open hearted compassion, clarity and connection.
IFS for Psychosis, Bipolar & OCD
Understanding Non-Ordinary Experiences through IFS
🗓️ Starting September 2027
A compassionate exploration of voices, visions, intrusive experiences and other non-ordinary states, through an IFS lens.
Interested in Future Groups?
I’m also exploring the possibility of offering IFS Process Groups and a Bipolar Group in the future.
If either of these interests you, I’d love to hear from you.
Interested in Future Groups?
I’m also exploring the possibility of offering IFS Process Groups and a Bipolar Group in the future.
If either of these interests you, I’d love to hear from you.
Watch real IFS Sessions. Ask Questions. Deepen Your Understanding.
An ongoing mentoring membership where we explore real IFS sessions together. Meeting monthly you are invited to join the live discussion as we unpack the therapeutic choice-points of working with clients from a relational standpoint.
Watch real IFS Sessions. Ask Questions. Deepen Your Understanding.
An ongoing mentoring membership where we explore real IFS sessions together. Meeting monthly you are invited to join the live discussion as we unpack the therapeutic choice-points of working with clients from a relational standpoint.
MEET STEPHANIE
Stephanie Mitchell
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist | Teacher | Consultant
I am first and foremost a human who has undertaken a profound journey of inner transformation with IFS. My parts often like to describe this as “feeling different inside my skin”. My life has more ease and grace than I ever imagined possible.
My healing has also transformed my therapeutic work and how I hold a training group.
SUPPORT FOR YOUR JOURNEY
Individual Therapy
Please email me if you are interested in working with me
Consultation for Practitioners
Support for compex client work and deeper learning
MEET STEPHANIE
Stephanie Mitchell
Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist | Teacher | Consultant
I am first and foremost a human who has undertaken a profound journey of inner transformation with IFS. My parts often like to describe this as “feeling different inside my skin”. My life has more ease and grace than I ever imagined possible.
My healing has also transformed my therapeutic work and how I hold a training group.
SUPPORT FOR YOUR JOURNEY
Individual Therapy
Please email me if you are interested in working with me
Consultation for Practitioners
Support for compex client work and deeper learning
Have a question?
I’d love to hear from you.
Whether you’re interested in individual therapy, professional consultation, one of my courses, or simply have a question, you’re warmly invited to get in touch.
Have a question?
I’d love to hear from you.
Whether you’re interested in individual therapy, professional consultation, one of my courses, or simply have a question, you’re warmly invited to get in touch.
INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS
pODCASTS, INTERVIEWS AND VIDEOS
Stephanie shares her knowledge and personal story on topics such as:
- healing shame,
- complex trauma,
- non-ordinary experiences and
- the importance of relationship for healing.
INTERVIEWS & CONVERSATIONS
pODCASTS, INTERVIEWS AND VIDEOS
Stephanie shares her knowledge and personal story on topics such as:
- healing shame,
- complex trauma,
- non-ordinary experiences and
- the importance of relationship for healing.
Even after years of meaningful inner work, shame can remain in our systems.
.
Join me for a compassionate, experiential exploration of the parts who use or carry shame.
Through meditation, parts mapping, journaling, reflection, and group sharing, deepen your relationship with these parts and create space for new possibilities.
.
For those with substantial personal IFS experience.
Reflections From Our Community
“Stephanie models ‘radical openness’ in speaking for her experience and her parts. It allowed me to engage more in the training and felt like being able to embody what I was learning.”
Prior Student
“Thank you for all of your amazing work and sharing your extensive knowledge and wisdom – as well experience with us, in ways that make sense and humanising our otherwise very complex and at times tricky work!”
Prior Student
Reflections From Our Community
“Stephanie models ‘radical openness’ in speaking for her experience and her parts. It allowed me to engage more in the training and felt like being able to embody what I was learning.”
Prior Student
“Thank you for all of your amazing work and sharing your extensive knowledge and wisdom – as well experience with us, in ways that make sense and humanising our otherwise very complex and at times tricky work!”
Prior Student
STAY CONNECTED
An Invitation to Keep Exploring
Receive updated about upcoming Courses, Retreats and new resources along with reflections and opportunities to learn together
STAY CONNECTED
An Invitation to Keep Exploring
Receive updated about upcoming Courses, Retreats and new resources along with reflections and opportunities to learn together
