Welcome to the Mirror Machine
I'm Ida Ansell, licensed therapist, consultant, and writer. I work with the survival patterns, protective parts, and inherited scripts running underneath our choices and co-created reality.
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Most self-assessments tell you what you're doing. This one tells you what's driving it, plus an un-blending practice to step out of the role.
The Shadow Script Deck & guide
Seven days. Seven survival archetypes. Each day targets a specific protective pattern with somatic check-ins and prompts that locate where your vitality is actually going, not where you think it's going. Archetype cards and somatic journal included. Built for people who want a concrete, self-directed process, not another journal asking how they feel.
Prefer digital? The PDF is available on Etsy at a discounted price.
Clinical Consulting, for Clinicians & Healing Professionals
Consultation that's clinician-focused, not case-focused. Using depth psychology, somatic IFS, and archetypal frameworks, we work with what gets activated in you during your hardest cases and turn it into clinical data, not something to manage. Offered as 1:1 consultation sessions or through The Activation Lab, a 6-person cohort experience. Founding cohort $795.
Narrative Consulting & Ghostwriting
For writers, producers, and organizations. Character psychology built from the inside out by a licensed clinician with working narrative craft. Script audits, character maps, and work-for-hire ghostwriting. Flat fees, quoted upfront.
Individual Coaching
A clinical-grade map of the parts running your system, and a personalized handbook and direct path forward. For people who want solution-focused 1:1 work outside of open-ended therapy.
MORE PARTS WORK TOOLS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
Two paperbacks are available on Amazon. The Masking Archetypes Quiz & Workbook: take the quiz to find your masking archetype, then work with it through somatic exercises, journaling prompts, and AI prompts for parts work between sessions. Inner Retreat: a parts work coloring book with 25 nostalgic animal illustrations and a reflection prompt on every page, insight while you color.
You can also find the Clinical AI Suite and other AI-Enhanced Parts Work guides on Kindle.
Looking for more tools? The Etsy shop carries instant-download, digital resources, including the Clinical AI Suite (a guide for individuals & therapists) for building custom AI tools for IFS parts work and somatic tracking, plus other printable journals, workbooks, and self-paced toolkits.