IFS & NARM Therapy for Complex Trauma · Duncan, BC
Healing is a Journey
I believe life is a journey of coming alive and present to all of who you are on the inside, and all that is available to you in this life.
Whatever you are struggling with, together we will help you heal, transform, and return to your original aliveness.
Book a free consult or session
IFS & NARM Therapy for Complex Trauma · Duncan, BC
Healing is a Journey
I believe life is a journey of coming alive and present to all of who you are on the inside, and all that is available to you in this life.
Whatever you are struggling with, together we will help you heal, transform, and return to your original aliveness.
Book a free consult or session
How did I get here?
Did you start out on a life path hopeful about the possibilities of creating meaningful work, deep intimate relationships, and friendships only to find, somewhere along your journey, that the way became less clear, overgrown, and difficult to find?
Despite your best efforts, do you feel stuck, as if circling back to the same old ways of living? Do you wonder, “How did I get here and how do I find a path forward, one that feels alive, connected and true to my heart?” Perhaps you’re not quite sure where to start or how to connect with and trust your own inner compass to find the way home...if so, you're not alone!
How did I get here?
Did you start out on a life path hopeful about the possibilities of creating meaningful work, deep intimate relationships, and friendships only to find, somewhere along your journey, that the way became less clear, overgrown, and difficult to find?
Despite your best efforts, do you feel stuck, as if circling back to the same old ways of living? Do you wonder, “How did I get here and how do I find a path forward, one that feels alive, connected and true to my heart?” Perhaps you’re not quite sure where to start or how to connect with and trust your own inner compass to find the way home...if so, you're not alone!
When you work with me, I will support you to:
- Slow down and turn towards yourself.
- Create space to pay attention to your internal/felt experience.
- Bring curiosity, compassion, and kindness to all parts of yourself.
- Build a deep listening and care for all of your experiences.
- Befriend the parts of you that protect you and those that have been exiled.
- Unburden and transform old wounds.
- Reconnect with your innate qualities of joy, passion, creativity, wellbeing, and aliveness.
- Follow your heart, your knowing, and your own inner nature.
The ability to be in relationship with all parts of ourselves, allows us to feel safe and secure within--enabling a deeper sense of connection and vitality in our relationships. Coming home to yourself allows you to take risks bringing your most expressed and expansive self into the world.
When you work with me, I will support you to:
- Slow down and turn towards yourself.
- Create space to pay attention to your internal/felt experience.
- Bring curiosity, compassion, and kindness to all parts of yourself.
- Build a deep listening and care for all of your experiences.
- Befriend the parts of you that protect you and those that have been exiled.
- Unburden and transform old wounds.
- Reconnect with your innate qualities of joy, passion, creativity, wellbeing, and aliveness.
- Follow your heart, your knowing, and your own inner nature.
The ability to be in relationship with all parts of ourselves, allows us to feel safe and secure within--
enabling a deeper sense of connection and vitality in our relationships. Coming home to yourself allows you to take risks bringing your most expressed and expansive self into the world.
My passion is helping people who have sustained relational and developmental trauma. The kind that often shows up as overeating, substance use, shame, depression, anxiety, anger, and a deep sense of disconnection from self. As a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and NARM® Master Therapist/Practitioner based in Duncan, BC, I bring two complementary approaches to this work. IFS helps you build a compassionate relationship with the parts of you that hold pain and protection. NARM, the NeuroAffective Relational Model, works directly with the patterns of disconnection that take shape when our earliest needs for safety and attunement weren't consistently met. Together, they offer a path home to yourself.
My passion is helping people who have sustained relational and developmental trauma. The kind that often shows up as overeating, substance use, shame, depression, anxiety, anger, and a deep sense of disconnection from self. As a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and NARM® Master Therapist/Practitioner based in Duncan, BC, I bring two complementary approaches to this work. IFS helps you build a compassionate relationship with the parts of you that hold pain and protection. NARM, the NeuroAffective Relational Model, works directly with the patterns of disconnection that take shape when our earliest needs for safety and attunement weren't consistently met. Together, they offer a path home to yourself.
Healing, is really a journey of coming back into relationship with all parts of one’s self...
Healing, is really a journey of coming back into relationship with all parts of one’s self...
Relational Trauma
For many who have experienced early relational wounding, where our needs for connection and attunement, were not consistently met by caregivers, there is a general feeling of disconnection and lack of vitality. This pervasive feeling of disconnection is a result of having had to develop protective strategies to survive. Parts of us took on roles such as caretaking, perfectionism, and independence to cope with the pain of disconnection. Many of us found other ways of self soothing through food, addictive substances, work, sex, or shopping. But as we journey down the path of life, these protective strategies that once saved our lives by creating distance from our bodies and emotions, now tend to create more suffering.
Healing, is really a journey of coming back into relationship with all parts of one’s self, understanding the good intentions of our protective parts, and healing the young parts of ourselves that hold grief, anger, fear, and shame. This healing journey is a way of offering ourselves the deep presence and attunement we have longed for all our lives.
This is where IFS and NARM meet most powerfully. NARM, in particular, was developed for healing developmental and relational trauma, and it's what allows the work to reach patterns that took shape before we had words for them.
If you know there is more connection and ease possible than what you are experiencing now, and you know that you want to change, but don’t quite know how, please reach out now to schedule a consultation with me.
Book a free consult or session
Relational Trauma
For many who have experienced early relational wounding, where our needs for connection and attunement, were not consistently met by caregivers, there is a general feeling of disconnection and lack of vitality. This pervasive feeling of disconnection is a result of having had to develop protective strategies to survive. Parts of us took on roles such as caretaking, perfectionism, and independence to cope with the pain of disconnection. Many of us found other ways of self soothing through food, addictive substances, work, sex, or shopping. But as we journey down the path of life, these protective strategies that once saved our lives by creating distance from our bodies and emotions, now tend to create more suffering.
Healing, is really a journey of coming back into relationship with all parts of one’s self, understanding the good intentions of our protective parts, and healing the young parts of ourselves that hold grief, anger, fear, and shame. This healing journey is a way of offering ourselves the deep presence and attunement we have longed for all our lives.
This is where IFS and NARM meet most powerfully. NARM, in particular, was developed for healing developmental and relational trauma, and it's what allows the work to reach patterns that took shape before we had words for them.
If you know there is more connection and ease possible than what you are experiencing now, and you know that you want to change, but don’t quite know how, please reach out now to schedule a consultation with me.
Book a free consult or session
ABOUT
Moira McNairnay MSW, RSW
Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist - LEVEL 3 NARM® Master Therapist/Practitioner
"A journey from disconnection to connection, from meaninglessness to aliveness, from feeling lost to feeling grounded and present behind my own eyes."
Before receiving my Masters in Social Work from the University of Calgary, I developed and taught mindfulness programs, classes and workshops. I have a second Master's degree in Transformational Learning and hold numerous certifications in advanced clinical practice including NARM Master Therapist Training, NARM Post-Masters Training (ongoing), IFS addictions + eating disorders, IFS trauma + neuroscience, Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), and Sensorimotor psychotherapy.
ABOUT
Moira McNairnay MSW, RSW
Certified IFS therapist: LEVEL 3 NARM® Master Therapist/Practitioner
"A journey from disconnection to connection, from meaninglessness to aliveness, from feeling lost to feeling grounded and present behind my own eyes."
Before receiving my Masters in Social Work from the University of Calgary, I developed and taught mindfulness programs, classes and workshops. I have a second Master's degree in Transformational Learning and hold numerous certifications in advanced clinical practice including NARM Master Therapist Training, NARM Post-Masters Training (ongoing), IFS addictions + eating disorders, IFS trauma + neuroscience, Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), and Sensorimotor psychotherapy.
I'VE
been there!
I’ve been in the thick of not knowing which way to turn, feeling disconnected and untrusting of my own inner knowing.
At age 29, I was lost in the woods of my life, disconnected from myself, in an unfulfilling marriage, struggling to build my career and feeling deeply unsatisfied, lonely, empty, and depressed. I longed for a greater sense of connection to myself, for more connection to my vitality, and for nourishment from my relationships and my work. I had a small inner voice that knew more was possible, but I had no idea how to get there.
It has been a journey finding my way home... I'd like you help you too, get in touch and let's talk it through.
Book a free consult or session
I'VE
been there!
I’ve been in the thick of not knowing which way to turn, feeling disconnected and untrusting of my own inner knowing.
At age 29, I was lost in the woods of my life, disconnected from myself, in an unfulfilling marriage, struggling to build my career and feeling deeply unsatisfied, lonely, empty, and depressed. I longed for a greater sense of connection to myself, for more connection to my vitality, and for nourishment from my relationships and my work. I had a small inner voice that knew more was possible, but I had no idea how to get there.
It has been a journey finding my way home... I'd like you help you too, get in touch and let's talk it through.
Book a free consult or session
Moira McNairnay Counselling
Email: hello@MoiraMcNairnay.ca
Email: hello@MoiraMcNairnay.ca
I acknowledge that I have the honour to live, work and play on the traditional and unceded territory of the Quw'utsun' people who have lived here since time immemorial.
I acknowledge that I have the honour to live, work and play on the traditional and unceded territory of the Quw'utsun' people who have lived here since time immemorial.