How can I benefit from an IFS therapy Intensive?
A DIFFERENT WAY to APPROACH YOUR THERAPY
As an IFS Therapist, I work with private clients in two main ways. One is the more traditional approach of weekly IFS sessions, which works very well for most clients, who enjoy the regularity of a weekly hour or 90 minutes to spend focused on their healing, processing and on gaining insight into their challenges and areas of need.
The second way is less typical but equally as powerful and has been borne out of requests from my clients who want to do even deeper work and spend more time healing and exploring their inner worlds.
As a result of these elongated therapy sessions, and the results I have seen in clients, I work with a small number of clients each month doing intensive therapy blocks. This may look like a full day of therapy, with a break for lunch, or more often it means consecutive days of therapy sessions. During these intensives, we work to deepen healing and often to accelerate it.
Sometimes these are new or existing clients who want to focus on a particular block or area of their healing in an accelerated, deep and effective way.
And sometimes these are clients who work with other therapists but are experiencing blocks that mean their therapy seems stuck or stalled in terms of progress (if you are a therapist and this resonates with any of your clients, feel free to reach out to me so that I can share how this works). After the intensive, these clients go back to their regular therapy with their existing therapist.
Due to the nature of IFS - both transformative and gentle - we can often get to the heart of what is causing a certain block, by focusing a greater amount of time and energy to locate, connect with, befriend and heal the part that is preventing the client from getting unstuck.
We often find these are the parts called “protectors” in IFS, these are parts who have good intentions for the client but need to be approached in a specific way so that they can shift the way they work in the system is able to change and become less extreme.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS INTENSIVES CAN WORK WELL FOR:
Clients who are dedicated to change and committed to healing but for whom weekly sessions are a challenge.
Clients whose time is pressurised and perhaps work, travel, family and caring responsibilities mean that regular sessions are not going to work for the client in this season of their life.
Clients who want fast AND deep transformation and healing.
Therapy intensives are intended to to accelerate and deepen your healing process. Increasing the amount of time spent with your therapist means clients can achieve 3-6 months worth of progress in just a few days.
THE BENEFITS OF AN IFS INTENSIVE
By spending longer together over a shorter period, we completely maximise our time. We don’t need to spend as much time getting situated, meeting and greeting, settling into sessions or updating on where clients are.
When I run an intensive for a client, I have a trusted yet highly personalised process (including pre-sessions, an in-depth workbook complete with multiple helpful assessments and a space to share key goals and background stories and a follow-up session) which means I can prioritise the client’s precious time and focus all efforts into transforming how they feel at their core.
In an IFS intensive, the potential to deepen insight, increase balance and understanding, and create an effective and protected space for healing, is extremely high and previous intensive clients have found this work to be particularly transformative.
I feel very privileged to hold this space for my clients and love seeing the incredible shifts that intensives can provide in such a short period of time.
If you’re keen to find out more about IFS Intensives with Lucy Orton Therapy, including an explanation of the time, practical and financial investment, you can click here. You can also reach out for a free consult here.
Warm wishes,
Lucy Orton
IFS Therapist | Counsellor