Sofia Olson is a certified Internal Family Systems practitioner who is passionate about using the power of Internal Family Systems to support people in finding healing and liberation. She has studied Internal Family Systems through the IFS Institute, having completed Levels 1 & 2, as well as acting in the role of a Program Assistant to support others to learn the model.

She originally trained as a coach with the Martha Beck Life Coach Training Institute. During that time, she also delved into the work of Brené Brown and Byron Katie.

She has been married to her wife since 2012 and came into the life of her wife’s children when they were 5 & 8 and experienced the various struggles of step parenting in her family.

In 2014, when her wife was hit by a car and subsequently developed a variety of chronic illnesses that involve a tremendous amount of pain and fatigue, are poorly understood by the medical world, and are profoundly impactful on every day of their lives. As her wife learned the new sets of skills and new worldviews that living with chronic illness required, they grew together in an understanding of ableism and how thoroughly society teaches us that our worth is tied to our productivity and our health.

Like many other white people, Sofia started to come to an understanding of systemic and internalized racism late, as a young adult. She continues to work to grow in this realm by both gaining an ever deepening understanding of racism and uprooting more of the racism that lives within her.

Sofia is also a non-profit accounting whiz and solves accounting problems for progressive and radical non-profits through sunrayaccountingsolutions.com.