Therapy on Fig

We believe therapy should be highly tailored to you. It’s our job to stay curious, open, and compassionate.

Our approach is trauma informed, culturally inclusive, and identity affirming.

02/09/2026

Many of us are grieving more than we realize. Loss can come through death, but also through relationships, health, culture, community, or a sense of identity that has been irrevocably changed.

In this week’s blog, Emily reflects on grief as a complex and deeply meaningful experience, one that often lacks space in our social world. She explores how therapy can offer a supportive container to honor grief, explore connection with those who have passed, and gently make meaning of endings that shape our lives.

Read the full blog or schedule a free 15 minute consultation by clicking the link in our bio.

02/05/2026

Complex PTSD, or C PTSD, often develops through repeated relational or developmental trauma rather than one specific event. Over time, this can shape how we regulate emotions, relate to ourselves, and connect with others.

In this week’s blog, Michael offers a compassionate overview of C PTSD, naming common experiences like emotional flashbacks, shame, and difficulty feeling safe in relationships. These patterns are not failures. They are adaptations that once helped someone survive.

The blog also explores trauma-informed approaches such as Internal Family Systems and NARM, which focus on restoring safety, agency, and self compassion rather than forcing change.

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01/26/2026

For many Adult Third Culture Kids and immigrants, leaving has been normalized as a way to cope with pain. When trauma is tied to a specific place, distance can feel like relief.

This week’s blog explores how movement can become a long term protector strategy, and how in adulthood it may surface as relational disconnection, avoidance, or difficulty staying present. Rather than judging this pattern, the blog offers a compassionate parts based understanding of why leaving once made sense, and how healing often begins by slowing down with support.

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01/19/2026

For many late-diagnosed autistic women, struggles with food and body image are not about control or appearance. They are about safety.

This week’s blog explores how masking, bullying, emotional unpredictability, and sensory overwhelm can shape the way autistic women relate to food and their bodies. Through an Internal Family Systems perspective, these patterns are understood as protective strategies that once helped create structure, predictability, and protection.

Healing begins with curiosity rather than judgment, and with honoring the parts of us that learned how to survive.

Read the full blog or schedule a free 15 minute consultation by clicking the link in our bio.For many late-diagnosed autistic women, struggles with food and body image are not about control or appearance. They are about safety.

This week’s blog explores how masking, bullying, emotional unpredictability, and sensory overwhelm can shape the way autistic women relate to food and their bodies. Through an Internal Family Systems perspective, these patterns are understood as protective strategies that once helped create structure, predictability, and protection.

Healing begins with curiosity rather than judgment, and with honoring the parts of us that learned how to survive.

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01/16/2026

My clients often come to therapy during seasons of change when familiar ways of coping no longer feel supportive and what comes next feels unclear. Even changes we choose can bring grief, uncertainty and a sense of disconnection from ourselves or others.

In our work together we slow things down. We make space to listen to the body notice internal patterns and gently explore how past relationships and experiences continue to shape the present. I work from a relational humanistic lens and believe that healing unfolds through safe attuned connection both within ourselves and in relationship with others.

This is a space rooted in curiosity rather than judgment where all parts of you are welcome as we move toward greater clarity, self trust and wholeness.

01/12/2026

When the holidays end, many people feel pressure to move on quickly and start fresh. But for some, the new year begins with lingering emotions that do not resolve overnight.

In this week’s blog, Michael offers a compassionate reminder that January does not have to be about transformation. Drawing from Internal Family Systems and Neuro Affective Relational Model (NARM), he encourages readers to slow down, listen to what their nervous systems need, and release the expectation that they must become someone new to begin again.

This blog is an invitation to rest, reflect, and move into the year with gentleness rather than urgency.

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01/05/2026

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers a way of understanding the body and mind that centers balance, rhythm, and connection to nature.

This week, Grace reflects on three lessons she has learned through her work on the TCM Talk Therapy podcast. She shares how seasonal living, the balance of yin and yang, and reconnecting with ancestral knowledge have influenced her personal life and clinical practice.

This blog is a thoughtful invitation to consider how healing can happen when we work with our bodies and environments instead of against them.

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12/29/2025

Many families manage conflict indirectly, often without realizing it. Over time, this can pull certain people into roles they never chose.

This week, Janelle explains triangulation, a dynamic where distress between two people is routed through a third. This pattern can turn someone into the messenger or mediator and slowly deepen resentment and disconnection within families.

The blog explores why triangulation feels easier than direct communication, how it can contribute to estrangement, and what it looks like to step out of the middle with compassion and boundaries.

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12/22/2025

For many adult children of immigrant parents, the holidays bring a complicated mix of love, obligation, grief, and longing. You may feel yourself slipping back into old roles or patterns the moment you return home.

This week, Rachel explores this experience with warmth and cultural sensitivity. Using Internal Family Systems, she names the different parts that often emerge during holiday visits and reminds us that these responses are not failures. They are protective strategies shaped by family roles, culture, and survival.

This blog offers a gentle holiday game plan focused on tending to your own parts, setting realistic boundaries, and prioritizing after care once gatherings end. It is an invitation to move through the season with more intention and self compassion.

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12/15/2025

Wanting closeness while also fearing it is more common than many people realize.

In this week’s blog, Marina explores why intimacy can feel so threatening, especially for those who experienced attachment wounds earlier in life. She outlines common fears around opening up, such as fear of rejection, abandonment, losing control, or being hurt, and explains how these fears often function as protective strategies.

Using Internal Family Systems, Marina encourages readers to approach these fears with curiosity and care. When we understand what they are protecting, we can begin to open to connection in ways that feel safer and more grounded.

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12/08/2025

In this week’s blog, Gabriella offers a compassionate look at how body shame often develops from early relational wounds rather than vanity.

Using Internal Family Systems (IFS), she explains how many of us learned that our worth depended on how we looked or behaved. Over time, the body became a place where fear of rejection and longing for connection lived. The parts that now criticize or monitor the body are usually trying to protect younger parts who still carry the belief, “I have to be perfect to be loved.”

IFS teaches us that healing happens not by silencing these protectors, but by understanding them and allowing Self energy to lead with compassion.

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12/05/2025

Suicidal thoughts are deeply human, yet too often met with misunderstanding. Many people hide these experiences because they fear being judged or dismissed.

In this week’s blog, Michael offers a compassionate and trauma informed perspective. He explains why suicidal thoughts can come from parts of us that are overwhelmed, tired, or longing for relief. He uses two approaches to help us understand this more deeply:

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗜𝗙𝗦): sees the mind as made up of parts. Suicidal thoughts often come from protective parts trying to help us survive pain.

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 (𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗠): focuses on complex trauma and how early survival responses continue to shape adult feelings and impulses.

Michael reminds us that these experiences deserve care, connection, and understanding. There is nothing shameful about needing support.

Read the full blog or schedule a free 15 minute consultation with Michael by clicking the link in our bio.

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