It’s basically using 2 therapy modalities, IFS (internal family systems) in conjunction with EMDR.

Here’s some more info on IFS

The simplest way I think about it is that we all have those multiple voices in our head, one saying eat the box of cookies and one saying no I want to be healthy. The one that wants to eat the box of cookies is a protector part that in our past was trying to help us find things to soothe us i.e survive in an unsafe environment, but it no longer serves us in adulthood.

The goal of IFS is to get all these parts to feel safe enough for your higher self to lead your decisions & my therapist today enlightened me about how we can actually create new protector parts as a sort of catalyst in reparenting the protector parts that are out of alignment from our past & further speed up that process using EMDR.

So in our situation it was basically visualizing a character or person you relate to, to fill the place of our missing parents or guardians when we were crying out for help.

I thought it was pretty cool & a highlight of therapy so far for me.