Sarah Bergenfield
Integrative Support for Unique Minds
Explore who you are - inside and out
I offer neurointegrative support that blends neuroscience, Internal Family Systems (IFS), sensory, and embodiment practices to help you understand your neurotype, foster self-discovery, and healing. Together, we explore how your brain, body, and nervous system work so you can make sense of why you experience the world the way you do.
At the heart of my work is Internal Family Systems (IFS), a respectful, non-pathologizing model that helps you connect with the different parts of yourself. These might include parts that mask to stay safe, parts that shut down from overwhelm, or parts that push through exhaustion to meet expectations. We view these parts not as problems but as intelligent responses to a world that hasn’t always made room for who you are. By listening to them, rather than fighting against them, you begin to understand not only your behaviors but also the logic behind them. You’ll learn how your sensory system, predictive mind, and protective parts all work together to keep you safe in a world that often misunderstands you.
Join me on Friday, September 26th from 2-5pm
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This 3-hour experiential workshop explores how autistic traits, adaptive parts, and brain-based predictions interact to shape perception, behavior, and internal experience. Drawing from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, the Predictive Processing Framework (PPF), and neurodiversity-affirming principles, participants will learn to understand autistic clients (and themselves) through the lens of uncertainty management.
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We’ll explore how prediction errors, sensory overwhelm, and social ambiguity give rise to protective parts—and how Self-led presence can offer the nervous system a new model of safety. Through teaching, reflection, and guided practice, this workshop will deepen your capacity to respond to autistic experience with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.
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Click here: https://ifsca.ca/minimizing-uncertainty/
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Coming
January 2, 2026!
×´For years I’ve been asked how IFS works with autistic people. not being autistic myself and not having a lot of experience with autistics, I would tell them I don’t know. Now I happily refer them to this amazing book. Sarah is autistic and has extensive experience using IFS with autistics. In addition, she conveys her experience and those of her clients in ways that make it clear that while their brains process the world differently, and society’s reaction to those differences have been painful and forced parts into protective and exiled roles, they also have unusual strengths and access to Self. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is autistic, or is working with someone who is, or who wonders whether they might be.×´
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​Dr. Richard Schwartz - Creator of Internal Family Systems
About Sarah
I am a Certified Level 3 Internal Family Systems practitioner, writer and educator. Like many autistic adults, I spent years trying to make sense of why the world felt so overwhelming, why relationships felt foreign, and why I often felt both separate yet deeply connected to everything around me.
My autism diagnosis was a turning point. It helped me understand how my mind works—how I process information, how I experience the world through my senses, and how different parts of me developed to cope with uncertainty, demand, and disconnection. I found grounding in Internal Family Systems (IFS), and clarity in neuroscience, in predictive processing, and in embodiment. These frameworks gave me language for what had always felt ineffable. They helped me build a bridge between my internal experience and the external world.
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Now, I offer that bridge to others.
