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Walter Combs, LCSW
Walter Combs, LCSW
...Parts In Harmony...


All your parts deserve resiliency and balance through Self exploration and resolution of hurts
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From Big Ideas to Storefront Execution: The Walt Disney Strategy for High-Impact Team Planning
How many times have you sat in a brainstorming meeting, threw a bold new idea onto the whiteboard, and watched someone immediately shoot it down with: "That's way too expensive," "We don't have the staff for that," or "That'll never work in our market"? Or perhaps you’ve experienced the opposite: a fantastic, blue-sky planning session where everyone leaves energized—only for the idea to fizzle out weeks later because nobody built an actual execution plan. When great ideas die


Beyond the Latin: Why Freud and IFS See Your Inner World So Differently
If you’ve ever felt like your mind is an internal battlefield, you are in good company. Psychotherapy has spent over a century trying to map this inner terrain. Two of the most famous frameworks for doing this are Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis and Dr. Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS). At first glance, they seem to be talking about the exact same thing: the idea that the human mind is made up of different "parts." Because of this, people often try to integrate


Understanding the Journey Inward: The IFS Approach to Healing
Have you ever felt like a "part" of you wanted one thing, while another "part" felt the complete opposite? In Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, we recognize that our minds are naturally made up of different "sub-personalities" or Parts . While some of these parts may act in ways that feel problematic, IFS operates on a transformative core belief: Every part has a positive intention for you. Beneath these parts lies your Self —a core of calm, compassion, and clarity that
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