Business Spotlight: Inner Thoughts… a division of Fischer & Associates Consulting

We all have several parts living within our minds that affect our lives. A good way to think of this is, “A part of me really wants to go to the party; but another part really wants to stay home and get ready for tomorrow.” Life events or trauma can drive our parts into extreme roles; but these internal parts can be helped to heal. The goal of Inner Thoughts… is to help clients become acquainted with these inner parts so they can understand their thoughts and actions and why different emotions arise at various times. This helps clients change their responses if they desire.

Vary Fischer is an RN, Certified Level 3
IFS Practitioner and Certified Grief
Recovery Method Specialist.
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Located in Windham, Inner Thoughts… is owned and operated by Vary Fischer, a registered nurse certified in two types of psychological work. As a Certified Level 3 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, she helps clients approach inner turmoil; and as a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, she helps people complete unresolved grief. These approaches are separate and not blended together.

“Using IFS, I help people understand their inner feelings,” Vary said. “Using GRM, I help people release their unrelenting grief. With each client, I am privileged to sit with them and hear their inner thoughts and needs and help them help themselves.”

Fischer & Associates began as a nursing consultation business. In 2018, Vary began expanding to incorporate the psych work she was doing and actually decided that it needed its own division, thus, Inner Thoughts… a division of Fischer & Associates, was launched in 2021.

“I had always been interested in psychology. In two of my degrees, psychology is my undeclared minor. My belief is that mind and body work together, so while clinical nursing in the hospital setting, I always incorporated the psyche (the patient’s emotional state) into my plan of care,” Vary said. “In stepping down from clinical nursing, I began teaching, became a nursing home administrator, and travelled as a nursing consultant; but I really desired to help people with the psychological puzzles in their lives. I finally had an opportunity to study further and sought education in the Internal Family Systems model of therapy. I completed preliminary IFS education, then did the three educational levels, and finally earned certification—allowing me to work as a Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner. In doing this work, I realized that many clients found unresolved grief in themselves. I therefore sought education preparing me to help them process their grief, thus earned my certification as a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist of the Grief Recovery Method.”

Vary works in the Cumberland County area for clients who wish to have sessions in person or online, but also sees clients online across the country.

As an IFS Practitioner, Vary is a professional who helps people understand their inner parts and how they relate to the world around them. “The practitioner may have varying backgrounds, mine is as a registered nurse, which gives me a sound understanding of the human body and how to care for it and conditions that can cause it to be in a less-than-optimal state,” she said.

As a certified GRM Specialist, she teaches that people often neglect and misunderstand grief. Per the Grief Recovery Institute, “Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss of any kind. It is neither a pathological condition nor a personality disorder. However, we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural.” Vary points out that, “Grief isn’t just when someone dies—it’s any time we experience a loss that causes an end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior. That includes loss of pets, jobs, possessions, or moving from one location to another. In GRM, we teach that recovery means feeling better – claiming your circumstances instead of your circumstances claiming you. Loss happens to all of us at various times; and grief is a response to loss. However, grief is not a life-long sentence to sadness and low spirits. We teach people how to complete their incomplete grief.”

For more details about Inner Thoughts… a division of Fischer & Associates Consulting, call 207-572-1120, visit https://vfischerconsulting.com, or send an email to vary@vfischerconsulting.com <