Meet the parts that run your inner life

A psychotherapy model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz in the 1980s. It views the psyche as distinct "parts" — Managers (proactive protectors), Firefighters (reactive protectors), and Exiles (wounded younger parts) — governed by an unburdened core Self. Healing happens when Self leads and parts are heard rather than suppressed.

No. IFS was developed inside therapy, but the model is increasingly used for self-guided exploration. The free assessment maps your part landscape in 55 questions, and the Companion provides structure to go deeper. For trauma processing, a trained IFS therapist remains the gold standard — self-guided work is best for self-understanding and everyday parts dynamics.

A voice-and-text IFS guide built in three layers: a model that already knows the IFS literature deeply, an explicit protocol distilled from everything publicly written about IFS, and refinement against experienced practitioners, Richard Schwartz among them, doing the real work. You describe what you're feeling, and it helps you identify which parts are active, what they're protecting, and how to approach them with curiosity, the way a good IFS session would. You can type or speak, and it remembers your parts across conversations.

ChatGPT will summarize IFS theory but won't guide you through a session — it doesn't remember your parts or follow IFS pacing. The Companion is purpose-built from real IFS session transcripts: it knows a firefighter from an exile, asks protectors for permission, and mirrors the safety protocols of clinical parts work.

No — it's a different tool, not a lesser one. Clinical IFS goes deeper, especially for trauma, and that needs a trained human. The Companion is for the gap: 3am moments, long waitlists, people not ready to open up to a stranger yet. The parts work is real; the access problem is real. That's what we built.

Click the microphone and speak naturally — what you're feeling, what a part is saying, what's coming up in your body. Typing pulls you out of your inner experience; voice lets you stay present with your parts. Works best in Chrome or Edge on desktop.

The assessment is a one-time snapshot: 55 questions producing a written map of your inner system. The Companion is the ongoing practice: a conversational AI you return to for whatever is alive right now, which remembers the parts you have met. The worksheets are the work on paper — eight free, fillable or printable, and a complete set of twenty-five for $19. They work well together, but each stands on its own.

Yes. The free preview is the most useful sample, because it maps your own parts before you decide anything. If you'd like to see a complete report first, a full example for a fictional person is on the sample reports page — choose the IFS Parts Discovery tab.

Yes. Eight fillable worksheets — a Self check-in, a parts map, a protector interview, a firefighter log and four more — are free on the site and as printable PDFs, no email or account. The Complete IFS Worksheets adds seventeen more in five guided sections, each opened by a one-page guide with a filled-in example, for a one-time $19.

Yes. All conversations and assessment data are encrypted and stored securely, and never shared with third parties. Your Companion conversations are visible only to you — this is a private space for real inner work.