About insideaway

We started by stopping to listen

Everyone carries a voice that criticizes, worries, or tells them to give up. We’ve spent years in the counseling room learning what those voices are protecting.

About us

Care for every part of you — without sending any of them away

Over years in the counseling room, we kept noticing the same thing. When something hurts, the first question we ask ourselves is “So how do I fix it?” — when the truth is we never stopped long enough to hear what the parts inside us were trying to say. Rush to fix without listening, and the same story loops back around. No part of you is bad. There are only parts no one has listened to yet.

The other thing we see often is that people wait. They wait until the heart is badly broken before they dare to come and talk, as if you had to fall apart first to deserve help. But caring for your mind doesn’t have to begin at a crisis, and it doesn’t have to wait for a therapy room. Stopping to breathe for a moment on a tiring day already counts as looking after yourself.

insideaway grew out of one intention — to move the work of caring for your mind out of the therapy room and into your everyday life.

What we do

Our services & approach

We offer counseling and IFS-informed therapy led by a psychologist, built on one belief — no part of you needs to be gotten rid of.

The approach is called IFS (Internal Family Systems). It holds that each of us carries “parts” that live together like a family — the one that controls everything, the one that worries ahead, the one that’s hurt and hiding quietly.

So therapy here isn’t about changing or removing what you dislike in yourself. It’s about understanding every part, learning from it, and holding all of it safely — until you can lead your own life again, in balance.

What we offer is psychological counseling and IFS-informed therapy — not medical treatment. We do not diagnose conditions and we do not prescribe medication.

If along the way we see that what you are carrying belongs with a psychiatrist, we will say so plainly and help you get there — and keep walking beside you if you want us to.

Self-guided tools — all free
Easy to do on your own and quick to finish, built so you can start on a day you’re still coping, instead of waiting until you can’t bear it. Practice listening to yourself, any day of the week.
Counseling & IFS-informed therapy — first session free
In-depth one-to-one care with a psychologist trained in IFS. A safe place, someone travelling beside you, and help untangling the knots that are hardest to reach alone.

Ages 18 and up

Individual

Burnout, built-up stress, anxiety, low moods, strained relationships

Parents and children · couples

Family

Communication and conflict — seeing the problem as the gap between you, not any one person’s fault

Ages 13–17

Teens

Overwhelming feelings, tangled thoughts, a loneliness no one sees, pressure at school

Our values

Build the life you choose

You can build the life you choose — once you can hear what’s going on inside.

Most of what keeps us stuck isn’t laziness or lack of effort. It’s an inner voice we’ve never actually listened to. When you start hearing it clearly, options you couldn’t see before begin to appear.

No part of you is bad

No part of you is bad.

In IFS, the part that procrastinates, snaps at people, or criticizes you every morning isn’t trying to hurt you. It’s stuck in a role it took on when you had no other option. So we don’t work by eliminating parts or fixing habits. We get to know them first.

Listening is where it shifts

Honest listening is where things start to shift.

A struggling part only softens when it senses you genuinely want to understand it — not just make it go away. That trust comes from listening, not forcing. And often, that alone is enough for a way forward to appear.

What you need is in you

What you need is already in you.

IFS calls it Self: the calm, curious, compassionate core that stays undamaged no matter what you’ve been through. Our job isn’t to fix you. It’s to help the other parts step back a little, so you can lead your own life again.

A map, not a verdict

Your chart is a map, not a verdict.

We use astrology openly alongside IFS. Your chart shows your baseline and your timing; IFS shows what’s happening inside your inner team today. Together they give a clearer picture than either alone — and help you decide with awareness, instead of waiting for fate to handle it.

Good fortune is built

Good fortune is something you build.

What actually changes the outcome is how you choose when the moment arrives. The better you know yourself, the better you choose.

Meet your parts

Every part took on a job to protect you — even the ones that make life harder.

ManagerPlans, controls, and pleases so nothing catches you off guard. It keeps the calendar full and the guard up so you never get hurt.A protector
FirefighterRushes in when pain breaks through, numbing or distracting to put out the flames. Impulsive, urgent, and only ever trying to help.A protector
ExileThe young, tender part carrying old hurt the others work so hard to hide. It is not broken. It is simply waiting to be seen.The one those parts protect
SelfCalm, curious, compassionate. When it leads, the whole inner family finally settles.The one who leads

Meet the founder

Benjawan Taokuen (Boom)

Counseling Psychologist & IFS-Informed Practitioner

MSc Human Development · BA Psychology · Bilingual (Thai & English)

Specializations

IFS-Informed
Trauma-Informed
TF-CBT

As a psychologist, I will never tell you that any part of you is ‘bad’ or ‘doesn’t belong’.

Over the past 13 years as a psychologist, I have listened to and worked with diverse individuals using Internal Family Systems (IFS) — from children and teens in Thai and international schools, to parents, university students, professors, working professionals, and refugees who left their homelands behind. Though every story is unique, one truth remains constant: deep down, we all possess a true “Self” — a core that is calm, resilient, and knows how to navigate life. Yet when life becomes too overwhelming, other protective parts step in to carry the burden, making us forget that this strength has been inside us all along.

My role is not to change who you are, but to walk alongside you as a compassionate companion — gently getting to know every part of your inner world together. I help bring your true “Self” back to guide your life once again, allowing emotional wounds to heal, helping parents and children truly hear one another, and ensuring that no matter your stage in life, you don’t have to carry the weight alone.

This is a safe space… and you no longer have to walk alone.

Meet the family in your mind.

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