About
The Institute for Family Services (IFS) is a team of family therapists committed to producing change that embraces safe, respectful, nurturing, and empowering relationships for all individuals, communities, and families. Founded in 1990, the practice has become a trusted name in New Jersey and across the nation. They transform families and communities through family therapy, client services, post-graduate training and internships, and their annual national Liberation Based Healing Conference. The Institute's approach to healing, known as Liberation Based Healing, is grounded in decolonial scholarship, critical social learning, and family therapy interventions. This approach focuses on building and strengthening foundations of resistance and resilience, rather than solely on symptom reduction. The therapists at IFS work towards creating and sustaining a community of helpers, clients, friends, and professionals.
Insurance & payment
The Institute for Family Services accepts out-of-network insurance plans.
- Out of network
Listed fee: $200 per session. Ask about sliding-scale fees if you're paying out of pocket.
Services & specialties
Family Therapy
The Institute for Family Services offers family therapy services, embracing the resilience that all families and individuals bring to therapy and creating a landscape of liberation in resolving life's struggles.
Post-Graduate Training/Internship
Trainees receive didactic and live supervision in the clinic, working with wide trajectories of families, including Spanish language clients, that are navigating multiple systems.
Organizational Change Training
The Institute offers tailored workshops for organizations, working with youth and adolescents, educators, social workers, and mental health professionals to promote change and empowerment.
Liberation Based Healing Conference
The annual, two-day Liberation Based Healing Conference brings together scholars, activists, educators, students, staff, and community members to engage in collective discourse about how coloniality shows up in traditional education and therapeutic models.