Inner Worlds Counseling · Individual Therapy
Meet Your System.
Find Your Self.
IFS-based individual therapy for adults navigating trauma, identity, and the patterns that keep them stuck. Telehealth in Wisconsin and Louisiana.
Many of the struggles that bring people to therapy are not signs that something is wrong with them. Instead, symptoms may be adaptations that made sense at some point in one's life, or they are a way to escape pain that feels too difficult to bear. IFS helps you be with your vulnerable parts in a new way, so you can stop numbing and protecting, and be present with these young parts of yourself who have been waiting a long time for YOU.
What is Parts Work?
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Everyone's psyche is a family of parts: The part that overthinks. The part that avoids. The part that stays busy. The part that gets angry. The part that believes it isn't enough.
In Internal Family Systems (IFS), we learn to approach these parts with curiosity rather than judgment. Instead of asking "How do I get rid of this?" we begin asking "What is this part trying to protect?" and then, "What do the vulnerable parts of me need from me?"
People discover that what seemed like the problem was actually a survival strategy. When parts no longer have to carry so much alone, change happens naturally.
What is parts work? →Who we Are
Therapists
Both therapists share a depth-oriented, trauma-informed approach — with distinct specialties and rates. Read about each to get a sense of who might be the right fit.
Licensed Professional Counselor · Founder · WI & LA
Heidi McKinley, LPC, IFS Level-1
"Getting beneath the patterns to understand the parts that carry them."
Heidi specializes in attachment trauma, C-PTSD, and early relational wounds — helping clients get curious about the parts of themselves that carry old pain. She also offers short-term intensive and depth work for people who want something more focused.
$165 / 55-min session · Sliding scale available
⟶ Caseload full — waitlist open · Intensives & short-term depth work available now, no waitlist
Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor · LA
Anna Katrovas, PLPC
"Come home to yourself."
Anna is a therapist grounded in IFS, EMDR, and systems theory, with a deep interest in identity, intimacy, and relational dynamics. She specializes in helping clients build more secure relationships — starting with the one they have with themselves.
$120 / 55-min session
⟶ Not yet accepting clients — waitlist open
Fees & payment
pricing.
Inner Worlds Counseling is a private pay practice. We don't bill insurance directly — but superbills are available for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
Heidi McKinley, LPC
$165
Per 55-minute session · Wisconsin & Louisiana
Weekly individual therapy · IFS-based
Depth sessions $250 / 90 min
Superbill available upon request
Sliding scale available on a case-by-case basis for ongoing individual therapy clients. Waitlist only — reach out to discuss.
Anna Katrovas, PLPC
$120
Per 55-minute session · Louisiana
Weekly individual therapy · IFS-informed
Louisiana telehealth only
Superbill available upon request
Anna is not yet accepting clients — join the waitlist to be notified when she opens her caseload.
Not sure about insurance? Call your provider and ask: "Do I have out-of-network mental health benefits? What's my deductible and reimbursement rate for CPT code 90837?" That will tell you what to expect.
What to expect
What does IFS therapy look like in session?
IFS is experiential — which means we don't just talk about your patterns from a distance. We turn toward them together. Here's a sense of what that looks like in practice.
We start with what's present
Sessions usually begin with checking in — what's alive, what's activated, what showed up since we last met. There's no agenda to get through. We follow what your system brings.
We notice a part
Something emerges — a feeling, a reaction, a thought pattern, a sensation in the body. Rather than trying to change or explain it, we get curious. "Can you notice that part? Where do you feel it? What does it look like or sound like?" We begin to locate it and give it some space.
We check how you feel toward it
This is one of the most important moves in IFS. Before we go further, we ask: "How do you feel toward this part right now?" If there's frustration, fear, or judgment — that's another part showing up. We work with those first until there's enough curiosity or compassion to approach what's underneath.
We get to know the part
Once there's enough openness, we ask the part directly — what it's worried about, what it's trying to do for you, how long it's been doing this job. Parts often carry old beliefs formed in earlier experiences. Getting to know them changes the relationship with them — even before anything is "processed."
Sometimes we go deeper
When a part trusts enough, it may allow access to what it's protecting — an exile, a younger part carrying a burden from the past. This is where some of the most meaningful work happens. But we never push. Your system sets the pace.
We close with care
Every session ends with a check-in — how are the parts doing, what do they need before you leave, anything to carry with you. We don't leave things open in a way that feels destabilizing. The goal is for you to leave each session feeling more settled than when you came in, even if something meaningful was stirred.
How we work
The shared orientation.
Both therapists use IFS as a framework — though the work looks different with each person.
Internal Family Systems
Parts work, Self-energy, and building a genuine relationship with every part of your inner world — including the ones that have been hardest to welcome.
EMDR
Trauma reprocessing at the level where memories are stored — helping the nervous system update what the thinking mind can't reach on its own.
Attachment & Somatic
Nervous system regulation, embodied safety, and understanding how your earliest relationships shaped the patterns you're living in now.
Not sure where to start?
That's what the free call is for.
Book a 15-minute conversation and we'll help you figure out who might be a good fit — or whether we're the right place at all.