Inner Relationship Focusing
is a powerful process of transformation that enables you to heal your relationship with your own inner self. It is a body-based self-awareness process that is gentle, respectful of where you are right now, and moves at your own pace of natural inner change. ...read more.

Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like...
Imagine having a more nurturing, respectful relationship with your own self. Imagine being on your own side. Imagine being your own true friend. Imagine having skills for listening to yourself, soothing yourself, learning from your past experience without being bogged down in it. ...read more.

Who Can Benefit from Inner Relationship Focusing?
Perhaps you find yourself saying things like: "I'm so angry with myself." or "I don't really trust myself." Perhaps you suffer from a persistent inner critic that seems to dump negativity on any forward progress. ...read more.

Is Inner Relationship Focusing a Kind of Therapy?
Yes and no. If you are seeking a therapist, we can help you find one who uses the methods and philosophy of Inner Relationship Focusing. ...read more.

For Therapists
For information on how Inner Relationship Focusing can benefit your clients, click here.

How was Inner Relationship Focusing developed?
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, whose combined experience with Focusing totals over 50 years, have developed a special way of approaching the Focusing process that is both nurturing and personal. They call their special approach "Inner Relationship" because it emphasizes how we relate to what needs attention in our inner world. ...read more.

If You Already Tried Focusing, and You Found it Didn't Work As Well As You Wanted...
"I was first introduced to Focusing sometime in the 80's. It became popular with many of our local counselors and healers and through the grapevine I heard impressive things about it. So I bought Gendlin's book Focusing, read it, sat down to do it for myself and had instant 'Beginner's Luck'. Awesome! I was very impressed. ...read more.

An Example of Inner Relationship Focusing
Read one person’s story of how just one Inner Relationship Focusing session brought a change. ...read more.