A collection of Ocnos Psychology Clinic articles exploring Internal Family Systems (IFS), inner conflict, protective parts, self-criticism, feeling stuck and more respectful ways of understanding what happens inside us.
This category works as a starting point. It does not try to replace the in-depth guides or individual clinical support; it simply helps you reach the right content more easily.
Start with the main guide, which explains the model, the language of parts and its central ideas in greater depth.
Go to the main guide →Read the article on internal parts when one part of you wants change while another slows down, avoids or tries to protect you.
Read about change and stuckness →If reading is no longer enough, you can book an appointment or read more about Rocío’s professional approach before deciding on the next step.
View Rocío’s profile →IFS may appear in articles about self-criticism, stuckness, shame, trauma, relationships or moments when different internal needs seem to pull in opposite directions.
Rather than repeating those explanations here, this category brings them together. Each article can therefore answer a specific question while the category keeps a simpler role: helping you navigate the growing collection.
Individual articles will explore specific questions. The category provides the wider map so you can find the resource that is most relevant to you.
Rocío Rodríguez Boza is a General Health Psychologist, registered with COPAO as AN 13748, and leads Ocnos work and educational content related to Internal Family Systems.
The articles take an integrative clinical approach and avoid treating the language of parts as the only possible explanation for everything a person feels or does.
Reading may help you put words to inner conflict. A session gives space to explore your history, your goals and which therapeutic approach makes sense for you, without assuming that everything needs to be explained through IFS.
Ocnos Psychology Clinic is based in Palmones and offers in-person and online psychological care when appropriate.
Explore resources in this category on Internal Family Systems, inner conflict, protective parts, self-criticism, stuckness and processes of change.
Sometimes the problem is not a lack of willpower, but inner conflict. Rocío Rodríguez explains why one part of you wants to move forward while another part gets stuck, and how this can relate to anxiety, depression, self-criticism and therapy.
The aim of IFS is not to eliminate parts, but to listen to them, understand them and integrate them, so they stop fighting and can collaborate more harmoniously. This integration happens around what the model calls the “Self”: your core capacity to be calm, curious, compassionate and connected when the internal noise drops.
In simple terms: IFS helps you stop feeling as if you’re being pulled around by inner voices — and helps you recover a steadier internal place from which to relate to yourself and what you’re going through.
