In IFS, after identifying a protective part, ask it what it wants you to know and what it fears if it doesn't perform its role.

“ask if you could go to what it protects and heal or change that so it didn't need to protect you so much what might it like to do instead inside of you if it was released from this role”

“if you could go to what it protects and heal or change that so it was liberated from this protector role what might it like to do instead inside of you”