# Hearth

> Hearth is a calm inner work app informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). An AI guide helps a person meet the parts of themselves, the anxious one, the inner critic, the part that shuts down, and lead them from a steady center. Talk or type, a few minutes a day, private. Not therapy, not a substitute for professional care.

Hearth is built and written by Billy Barnard, an IFS informed practitioner trained through the IFS Online Circle, not a licensed clinical therapist. Hearth is informed by the IFS model and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by the IFS Institute or Richard Schwartz.

## Start here

- [Homepage](https://little-hearth.com/): what Hearth is, how it works, pricing.
- [How to talk to your parts](https://little-hearth.com/how-to-ifs): a beginner's guide to IFS, step by step.
- [The IFS model guide](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-model-guide): parts, Self, protectors, exiles, the evidence base.
- [IFS glossary](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-glossary): short definitions of every core IFS term.

## Core IFS concepts

- [Protectors](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-protectors)
- [Managers](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-managers)
- [Firefighters](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-firefighters)
- [Exiles](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-exiles)
- [Self](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-self)
- [Unburdening](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-unburdening)

## IFS for specific situations

- [IFS for anxiety](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-for-anxiety)
- [IFS for depression](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-for-depression)
- [IFS and trauma](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-for-trauma)
- [Doing IFS alone](https://little-hearth.com/understanding-ifs-alone)
- [Hearth app versus IFS therapy](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-app-vs-therapy)
- [IFS versus CBT](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-vs-cbt)
- [IFS versus EMDR](https://little-hearth.com/ifs-vs-emdr)

## Letters

- [Practice notes hub](https://little-hearth.com/letters): first person notes from real IFS informed inner work.

## About

- [About Billy Barnard](https://little-hearth.com/about): the practitioner behind Hearth, training background, credentials.
- [Work with Billy one to one](https://little-hearth.com/work-with-me): guided one to one inner work outside the app.