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.

06/08/2026

The psychology world often talks about eldest daughters, but youngest daughters have stories worth exploring too.

In this week’s blog, Rachel examines the unique roles youngest daughters often occupy within family systems. From becoming the family distractor to growing up in the shadow of older siblings, these experiences can shape confidence, relationships, self-trust, and identity well into adulthood.

The blog also highlights the gifts that often emerge from these experiences, including resilience, creativity, adaptability, and a willingness to challenge expectations.

Understanding the role you played in your family can offer valuable insight into the patterns and strengths you carry today.

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

06/03/2026

Many people carry emotional burdens that feel deeply personal while also being connected to larger family, cultural, and generational experiences.

In this week’s blog, Janelle explores how generational trauma can shape beliefs about safety, worth, vulnerability, and identity. These patterns often develop as survival strategies passed down through families and communities, even when they no longer serve us today.

The blog highlights how integrating IFS and EMDR can create a compassionate and effective pathway for healing. By understanding protective parts and helping the nervous system process unresolved experiences, individuals can begin relating to themselves and their histories with greater freedom and clarity.

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

06/01/2026

Trained in EFT, IFS, Hakomi, and psychodynamic psychotherapy, Bret works with individuals and couples on emotional patterns, conflict, intimacy, and the ongoing work of knowing yourself. With a relational, experiential, and emotionally focused approach, he helps people feel more grounded in who they are and more connected in their relationships. He extends a special welcome to LGBTQ+ people, creatives, emotionally sensitive adults, and those navigating major life transitions. He is an AMFT 155624, supervised by Sharon Yu, LMFT 50028.

05/26/2026

Many couples find themselves caught in repetitive patterns of conflict where the details may change, but the emotional experience stays the same.

In this week’s blog, Emily explores how our early relational experiences shape the ways we respond to closeness, misunderstanding, and conflict in romantic relationships. Through an Internal Family Systems lens, the blog highlights how protective parts often step in to create safety, whether that looks like arguing, fixing, withdrawing, or shutting down.

Rather than focusing on who is right or wrong, the blog invites couples to move toward curiosity, emotional safety, and a deeper understanding of each other’s internal experiences.

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

05/18/2026

Perfectionism is often talked about as something we simply need to “fix,” but for many people, it runs much deeper than that.

In this week’s blog, Michael explores how perfectionism can function as a protective strategy shaped by experiences of rejection, unpredictability, shame, or pressure. While perfectionism can feel exhausting and limiting, the blog invites a more compassionate perspective rooted in Internal Family Systems and trauma-informed care.

Rather than trying to eliminate perfectionism, the post encourages curiosity about what these parts may be trying to protect us from and how understanding them can create more space for healing and self-compassion.

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

05/11/2026

Many people carry stress, overwhelm, and disconnection while spending most of their lives indoors and disconnected from their bodies.

In this week’s blog, Marina reflects on the role nature can play in healing and nervous system regulation. Through a nature-based and IFS-informed approach, she explores how slowing down outdoors can help people reconnect with their bodies, their senses, and a deeper sense of presence.

The blog also highlights how nature can support trauma healing by creating experiences of felt safety, helping protective parts soften and allowing the nervous system to regulate more naturally.

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

05/05/2026

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from spending a lifetime learning how to be someone the world could understand.
You may have been called high functioning, highly sensitive, anxious — labels that named a fragment but never the whole story. You may have felt the relief of finally having language for your experience, and then the grief that followed. For the years spent misunderstood. For the version of yourself that never got to just exist.

This is for the parts of you that are tired of holding it all together.

Unmasking Gently is an 8-week IFS relational process group for highly masked autistic women in their 30s and 40s - a small, intentional container where we get curious about the parts of you that learned to mask, perform, and monitor the world to keep you safe. Where identity, grief, nervous system, relationships, and what comes next all have room to find understanding and belonging.

Apply by visiting https://therapyonfig.com/group-therapy or the link in our bio

Spots are limited (5 in-person spots in Highland Park).

04/27/2026

Have you ever felt like you’re doing all the “right” things in therapy, but still feel stuck in certain patterns?

In this week’s blog, Grace shares how Brainspotting can support deeper healing by working directly with the brain and body. Rather than focusing only on talking through experiences, this approach helps access and process what is held beneath the surface.

Grace describes the experience as feeling almost like “magic,” not because it’s a quick fix, but because of how naturally the brain begins to release and reorganize when given the right conditions.

The blog also highlights Brainspotting intensives, which offer a more immersive format for those looking to move through specific blocks with more time and support.

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

04/20/2026

Many people are familiar with the experience of replaying conversations after they happen, wondering what they said, how it was received, or if something was missed.

In this week’s blog, Gabriella explores how this pattern shows up for highly masked autistic women and how it is often misunderstood. What is commonly labeled as overthinking or anxiety is often a form of internal sense-making, a system working to create clarity and maintain connection.

The blog offers a compassionate reframe, highlighting how these patterns develop as protective strategies and inviting a more curious and understanding approach to working with them.

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

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