Kim Paulus Psychotherapy

08/07/2023

Soooooo excited to be Co-leading the first LGBTQ2SIA+ IFS L1 training. Yay for q***rs!

08/07/2023

So excited to be co-leading the first LGBTQ2SIA+ affinity IFS L1 training! Yay for q***rs!

07/18/2023

Hey everyone, I am leading a 3 day Intro to IFS workshop in person at Mt Madonna Retreat Center in Northern California over Labor Day weekend. Please attend our free info session on Wednesday, July 26 at 7pm PST.
Partial scholarships for the workshop are available for BIPOC attendees for whom cost would be a barrier to attendance.

07/01/2023

This was a really great conversation with my people. I got smart people. Posted • [RESOURCE] The IFS Institute celebrates Minority Mental Health Awareness month. We're pleased to share this resource, Margin to Center - A Conversation on Otherness and Inclusiveness from an IFS Perspective with Kim Paulus, LMFT, Requina Barnes, LCSW, Natalie Gutierrez, LMFT, and Crystal Jones, LCSW. Video link (~1 hr and 29 mins.) in bio.
This session seeks to center the voices of folks who have been historically marginalized in healing spaces and in IFS spaces specifically, this panel of four BIPOC IFS therapists will talk about the individual and collective experiences of feeling othered, its impact on our systems and those of our clients. We also explore experiences of feeling included and welcomed in different spaces and how otherness is connected to individual burdens and legacy burdens but is also deeply impacted by the context of the cultural burden of institutional and systemic racism.

10/26/2022

• Attention, attention!! If you identify as Black, Brown, Indigenous, Latine, Asian, Person of color/Body of Culture- our Internal Family Systems Level 1 BIPOC affinity training has been posted on the IFS Institute’s website. If you’re interested-apply for the lottery! Deadline is October 27th at 9am central time!

03/30/2022

Come learn about how I, and my brilliant colleague Carmen Jimenez-Pride , am integrating my two favorite things: Internal Family Systems Therapy, and creating brave healing space for my people - q***r and trans people of color. Registration is open, link in my bio.

12/04/2021

12/03/2021

So excited to begin learning this model in March 2022. Posted • Intimacy from the Inside Out] Our goal is to change the conversation so we can change and deepen the relationship.

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10/15/2021

So I did this thing today where i got to sit on the screen with my door therapist friends and talk about racial equity and inclusion and IFS. But this time with a big audience at the conference. It was super rad. I loved every minute. Posted • So proud to have been on a panel at the IFS conference with these stellar humans!! This is the first time IFS centers the voices of the global majority! May this be a shift that continues in that direction! , Crystal Jones, and Requina Barnes!

10/02/2021

This is what Self-healing looks like. So rad. You’re welcome. I love you. 😘

09/19/2021

I felt this, deep in me. The alignment I want to keep. Posted • Feeling so much these days yet keeping practice simple. 🌿
Tender enough to feel
Present enough to witness
Humble enough to listen
Courageous enough to act
Accountable enough to change

09/01/2021

I say this to my clients all the time… when they are faced with parts of them that are angry or anxious or scared or irritated or sad, I ask them “How would you be with a little child who was feeling this way?” Most of my clients, regardless of their history, know inherently that the thing to do with a child who is struggling, is to just be with them, with love and care and acceptance. I invite them to try extending that love and care and acceptance to the parts of themselves that are hurting, and it almost always brings more ease and more healing, just with that little offering. We have what we need inside of us.