Matrescence is a period of profound inner transformation.

When you attend to your inner world and the parts of you that emerge in matrescence, you experience deep healing and inner nourishment. IFS can help you connect with your inner experience to embody the full range of your gifts and genius as a mother.

Matrescence unlocks layers of your inner world. Your parts deserve the dignity of deep listening and nourishment of connected holding. When you give this gift to your system, you also give this gift to your children. You can be a connected, multi-dimensional mother in your season of matrescence.

What is IFS and how can it help?

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IFS is a holistic model and relational practice of being with your inner experience from a space of loving presence. The same compassion you give to your children, you receive from your own system.

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IFS is based on the premise that through understanding, supporting, and integrating parts of your history and personality, you can heal and experience your innate knowing. Through the mirror of our children, motherhood unlocks parts of our own system, and when we meet these parts with grace, initiates healing and facilitates wisdom.

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IFS can help you access your embodied wisdom, heal relational wounds, and express your hidden gifts to sink into connected, meaningful matrescence.

When we meet our parts with the compassion we bring to our children, matrescence becomes a period of deep healing and rich creativity.

IFS Coaching For Any Season of Matrescence

My specializations include:

  • Birth trauma and helping you unpack your birth story

  • Relational intimacy and helping you process the intersections of motherhood and marriage

  • Attachment trauma and helping you tend to attachment wounds that surface in your mothering journey

  • Spiritual and personal identity shifts and helping you integrate motherhood into your world of meaning

  • Parenting with an IFS lens and helping you hold all of your child as you hold all of you

  • Postpartum support and helping you feel held, nourished, and honored during this vulnerable, transformative period

“Motherhood is the ultimate confrontation with yourself.” -Lisa Marchiano

I’m Sarah, IFS coach and parts work mentor.

I can help you process and integrate what parts are present around your motherhood journey. Together, we intentionally venture into your inner world, mapping out what parts are present here, hearing their stories with the dignity they deserve, and retrieving their gifts and lessons.

I have a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and have specialized training in trauma-informed, embodied modalities including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Somatic Attachment Therapy, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. I write about parts work regularly on my Substack journal Whole Self and Integrated Motherhood and have a self-help book on IFS forthcoming with New Harbinger in 2026.

I bring over a decade’s worth of experience with me in teaching embodied practice, facilitating inner work, and cultivating connected relational spaces where women feel safe to tell their stories and receive healing.

On a personal note, I am a wife and mother who is sinking into her own experience with matrescence. It’s an honor to help you experience the wisdom of your inner world. Receiving the medicine of your own knowing is one of the best gifts you can give yourself as a mother. Your knowing and intuition is powerful, mama!

~Sarah

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Abstractly: Come as you are and begin where you are. I help you connect with your parts, speak for them, and unblend and unburden as needed. I explain the model in real time so no prior understanding is needed. Logistically: We meet for 50 minutes over Zoom.

  • This container is a 1:1 coaching container. While similar to therapy in many key ways, one of the main differences is that this offering is not designed to treat symptoms associated with mental health diagnoses and you will not receive a diagnosis. This offering is designed to support your internal process and provide experiential and psychoeducational learning with the IFS model and integrative parts work models. If you meet criteria for a mental health diagnosis you are encouraged to find a therapist. Coaching is a collaborative, experiential adventure!

  • I have two main packages: ongoing coaching for any season of matrescence and the postpartum package.

    Ongoing coaching supports you in any chapter of your motherhood journey. You can purchase a single session, 3-session package, or 6-session package. Prices are $225, $600, and $1,050, respectively. I currently do not have sliding scale openings.

    The postpartum package provides more intentional support for the first 40 days. Childhood traumas, attachment wounds, and young parts surface in the postpartum period because the postpartum period is a liminal space of profound vulnerability. You are giving all of yourself to support new life and parts will be triggered in the process of transformation.

    In ayurveda, the period of postpartum is known as matru avastha. This is a sacred period that can also deeply heal you, if you respond with sensitivity and compassion to what arises in the first 40 days.

    You are reborn with the birth of every child. This rebirth carries its own vulnerability and power that deserves the dignity of deep listening and conscious holding.

    Apply below and I will be in touch within the week! I respond to applications every Monday and sometimes throughout the week when scheduling allows.

    The postpartum package includes 5 50-minute Zoom sessions and unlimited text and voice note support. Price is $1750.