The Self-Leadership Blog

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.

HOW A BEAUTIFUL - AND DEVASTATING - FILM OFFERS A MOVING INSIGHT INTO LOVE, LOSS, HEALING AND HOW WE CAN PROCESS OUR OWN TRAUMA.

As a counsellor, IFS therapist and coach, I find that films in particular can offer insights that complement healing within the therapy room; what may take chapters to explain in a book can be expressed in moments in a piece of highly crafted cinematic art.

In this blog post, which is the first of several linking films to the deep work that I do with clients, I’m digging into a recent movie, All Of Us Are Strangers, that I think makes for extremely valuable watching to many clients going through their own healing and processing journeys.

I love nothing more than sharing resources and especially books or audiobooks that I feel are helpful to my clients. Often these resources touch on topics that we have worked on together and sometimes they can serve as a good way of clients getting deeper on certain between sessions.

In the case of Internal Family Systems Therapy, I have noticed two distinct styles of engaging in IFS Therapy. For some clients, they ask me for as many books, podcasts, resources, meditation apps and other ways to learn more about IFS that I can recommend. Like me, they have become hooked on the thinking and the ideas behind this modality, as well as participating in their own beautifully transformative and healing sessions.