Sarah Bergenfield
Integrative Support for Unique Minds
Explore who you are - inside and out
What I do
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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.
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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.
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Who I work with
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I work with autistic adults, mixed-neurology couples, and parents who are trying to understand what’s happening beneath the surface, often after years of feeling misread, stuck, or out of sync with themselves or each other. Some of my clients are formally diagnosed. Others are not, or aren’t sure. What they have in common is a sense that the way they experience the world - sensory input, relationships, motivation, overwhelm - hasn’t been well understood.
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This work is not about changing who you are. It’s about noticing patterns of behavior, making sense of what’s happening in your system, and finding a way forward that feels more authentic.
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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
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.
