More impact, more income, Less burnout with IFS + Brainspotting Intensives
Add £30k-80k to your practice revenue this year
Without Seeing More Clients or Working Longer Hours.
Here’s the reality:
A single therapy intensive gives your clients an incredible, optimal experience AND generates your practice £3,500-£5,000+ in revenue from 12-15 hours of focused work.
Compare that impact AND income with seeing the same client weekly for 6-12 months.
Many of my therapist intensive clients have also worked with coaches, and many are coaches themselves.
They know firsthand that coaching, even excellent coaching, doesn't reach the nervous system. That's why they come to IFS and Brainspotting intensives. And it's why their clients need them to.
the business case is simple:
Your investment: £5,200
Your first intensive (priced at £3,500-£4,500): Business consulting portion of your investment recovered
Every intensive after that: Profit
Most therapists book their first intensive within 60-90 days - often with an existing client who’s eager for deeper work.
This isn’t just professional development. It’s a clinically valid revenuemodel that transforms your practice.
why therapists are adding intensives:
IFS and Brainspotting intensives offer one of the most powerful, spacious, and transformative ways to work with clients.
Over just a few days, your clients can experience profound breakthroughs that would often take months or years to reach in traditional weekly therapy.
As a therapist, adding intensives to your practice not only supports your clients in a deeper way, it also transforms your business model, your income, and your own sustainability as a clinician, lowering burnout risk and re-igniting your passion in your work.
a passion for intensives
As well as being booked out months in advance with online and in-person intensives and retreats, I work with therapists, counsellors, and coaches globally, who are IFS Level 1 trained (and above), or Brainspotting Phase 2 trained (and above), and who are ready to explore intensives as a new way to serve their clients.
Hear me talk about my intensives-based practice
the business case:
let’s talk numbers.
Traditional Weekly Model:
∙ 1 client × 50 weeks × £120/session = £6,000/year
∙ Time investment: 50 hours
∙ Scheduling: 50 separate appointments
∙ Energy: High administrative load, fragmented focus
Intensive Model:
∙ 1 client × 12-hour intensive = £3,500
∙ Time investment: c.15 hours (including prep + integration)
∙ Scheduling: 2-3 focused days
∙ Energy: Deep, spacious, transformative work
Scale this across just 8-10 intensives per year:
∙ Revenue: £28,000-£35,000
∙ Time: 120-150 hrs (vs 400-500 hrs in weekly therapy)
∙ Burnout risk: Dramatically lower
∙ Professional satisfaction: Dramatically higher
∙ Client outcomes: Accelerated, profound transformation
The Part Most Therapists Miss
You don’t need new clients. You don’t need to master marketing immediately and perfectly, or build a social media presence.
2-3 of your current weekly clients would likely say yes to an intensive if you offered it.
Your existing practice is your first market. The clients who are already working with you, who trust you, who are ready for deeper work - they’re waiting for this option.
Your Investment Pays for Itself
£5,200 investment includes:
∙Business strategy to price + position your intensives
∙Lived experience so you can confidently guide clients
∙experience your own healing in this beautiful, spacious container
∙Operational blueprint (scheduling, preparation, integration)
∙Professional credibility of having done this work yourself
∙60-day follow-up support after you run your first intensive
Most therapists recover the business investment after their first intensive booking.
After that? Every intensive is profit while working fewer hours and creating deeper impact.
why Add intensives to your practice:
SPACIOUSNESS FOR YOU
Intensives allow you to step away from the weekly treadmill of therapy and design a business model that supports your life, energy, and family. Balance your life more AND be the clinician you want to be.
uplevel as a clinician
By offering intensives, you position yourself at the leading edge of trauma-informed practice. As therapists, especially using deep and transformative modalities such as IFS or Brainspotting, we know their power and their spaciousness. We feel the constraint of the hourly model: we know more time can offer far more opportunity for deep healing.
deep impact for clients
Intensives create accelerated, lasting transformation by providing focused time to process trauma, access Self energy, and heal parts and trauma in a profound way.
sustainable income
With intensives, you can reduce burnout, work fewer overall hours, and increase profitability while still providing exceptional care.
The Signature Package
1:1 Therapist Intensive immersion
Experience It Firsthand and Build Your intensive Revenue Model
The best way to confidently offer intensives is to experience one yourself - and understand exactly how to structure them as a profitable service in your practice.
Here’s what’s included in your £5,200 investment:
1. Business Strategy Session (90 minutes)
We’ll map out your intensive model: pricing (based on your market and experience level), positioning (how to talk about intensives with existing clients), and your first 90 days of implementation. You’ll leave with a clear roadmap and the confidence to have “the intensive conversation” with your current clients.
Business outcome: Know exactly what to charge, how to position it, and which 3-5 clients to approach first.
2. Pre-Intensive Session (90 minutes)
You’ll experience the exact client preparation process you’ll use in your own practice. This session sets intentions, establishes the therapeutic container, and prepares you for deep work. You’ll see firsthand how powerful this pre-work is for creating transformation.
Therapeutic outcome: Understand the preparation that makes intensives so effective.
3. Your Therapist Taster Intensive (3 hours)
Experience a true IFS or Brainspotting intensive as a client. This isn’t just healing for you (though it absolutely is that) - it’s embodied research.
You’ll understand the pacing, the depth, the spaciousness, and the power of this format. When you offer intensives to your clients, you’ll know exactly what they’re experiencing at every stage.
Clinical outcome: Embody the intensive process so you can guide clients with confidence and presence.
4. Post-Intensive Integration + Implementation Session (90 minutes)
We’ll integrate your personal experience AND translate it into your business blueprint. How to structure your first intensive. How to price it. How to talk about it with clients. Who to offer it to first. You’ll leave this session ready to book your first intensive client.
Implementation outcome: A complete intensive protocol ready to use in your practice.
5. 60-Day Follow-Up: Your First Intensive Debrief (90 minutes)
After you’ve run your first intensive with a client, we’ll debrief the experience. What worked brilliantly? What felt challenging? How might you refine your approach? This is where you troubleshoot, optimise pricing for intensive #2 onwards, and create your strategy for filling the next 2-3 spots.
Accountability outcome: Confidence and refinement after real-world implementation.
The 1:1 THERAPIST INTENSIVE IMMERSION package gives you:
✅ The business model (pricing, positioning, marketing to existing clients)
✅ The clinical experience (embodied understanding of the intensive process)
✅ The operational systems (prep work, scheduling, integration protocols)
✅ The implementation support (guidance through your first intensive delivery)
Investment: £5,200
Timeline: Complete within 8-10 weeks
ROI: Typically recovered after your first intensive booking (£3,500-£4,500)
What therapists say:
“I offered my first intensive to a long-term client two weeks after my immersion with Lucy. She said yes immediately.”
— SW, IFS Therapist, UK
“Your clients are truly lucky to work with you! My vision for my practice has become so much clearer since our work together. I credit our meetings with giving me the motivation and confidence to start transforming my practice into the vision I’ve had for it.”
— AM, IFS Therapist, US
”I thought I’d need to invest in marketing to find intensive clients. Turns out 3 of my current weekly clients were waiting for me to offer this. Lucy’s business strategy session showed me exactly how to have that conversation.”
— KL, IFS Practitioner, Australia
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If you’re an IFS or Brainspotting Therapist ready to expand your impact, income and SUSTAINABILITY through intensives, I’d love to support you.
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Common Questions About Offering Therapy Intensives
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IFS therapy intensives typically cost between £3,500 and £6,000 (approximately $4,000-$7,500 USD), depending on the therapist's experience, location, session length, and format. A standard 12-15 hour IFS intensive delivered over 2-3 days averages £3,500-£4,500. More experienced practitioners, those offering specialised combinations (like IFS with Brainspotting or sex therapy), or longer formats may charge £5,000-£6,000+. Online intensives are often priced similarly to in-person, though some therapists offer a slight reduction for virtual formats. When researching IFS intensive costs, consider that this investment typically replaces 6-12 months of weekly therapy, making the per-session value comparable or better than traditional therapy while offering accelerated results.
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Depending on client needs and the way therapists structure their practices, therapy intensives typically range from 3 hours to multiple days, with the most common format being 12-15 hours spread over 2-3 days. Single-day intensives usually run 4-6 hours with breaks, while multi-day intensives might be structured as 4-5 hours per day over three consecutive days, or split across multiple weeks. IFS intensives and Brainspotting intensives often use longer formats (12+ hours total) because these modalities require spacious time for deep parts work and trauma processing.
Some therapists also offer "extended intensives" of 20-30 hours over 4-5 days for complex trauma or significant life transitions.
The intensive format contrasts with traditional weekly 50-minute therapy sessions by providing concentrated, uninterrupted therapeutic time. -
On the surface of it, the key difference between weekly therapy and intensive therapy is time structure and therapeutic depth. Yet there is a lot of difference both in impact from the clients perspective and business/burnout prevention outcomes for the therapist.
Weekly therapy consists of 50-60 minute sessions spaced a week apart, which works well for ongoing support, skill-building, and maintenance.
Therapy intensives condense multiple sessions into 12-15+ hours over 2-3 days, creating an immersive healing container that allows for deeper trauma processing and breakthrough work.
In weekly therapy, clients may spend several sessions building up to difficult material, only to lose momentum between appointments. Intensives eliminate this start-stop pattern: clients can access vulnerable parts, process trauma, and integrate insights within a single continuous experience. For modalities like IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Brainspotting, this spaciousness allows for more complete unburdening of traumatic material and deeper parts work than weekly sessions typically permit.
Weekly therapy suits ongoing mental health management, while intensives are ideal for specific trauma healing, major life transitions, relationship repair (couples intensives), or breaking through therapeutic plateaus. Many clients do both: weekly therapy for general support and periodic intensives for deeper transformational work.
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Yes, therapy intensives are particularly effective for trauma treatment, especially when using trauma-focused modalities like IFS (Internal Family Systems), Brainspotting, EMDR, or Somatic Experiencing.
Trauma intensives offer several advantages over weekly trauma therapy that intensive therapists note, such as:
Continuous processing: Trauma work often requires sustained attention to access and process difficult material. The extended time in intensives allows clients to move through protective parts, access core wounds, and complete trauma processing cycles that might take months in weekly therapy.
Reduced re-triggering: In weekly therapy, clients may get activated discussing trauma, then leave the session still dysregulated.
Intensives provide time to fully process and integrate traumatic material before ending, reducing the risk of clients being triggered between sessions.
Deeper parts work: For IFS trauma therapy, intensives allow multiple parts to be heard and unburdened in a single container. Brainspotting trauma intensives create space for the brain to fully process through traumatic activation without interruption.
Research support: While specific research on trauma intensives is emerging, extended exposure therapy (a related intensive format) has strong evidence for PTSD treatment. Many trauma therapists report that clients achieve in 2-3 day intensives what might take 6-12 months of weekly trauma therapy.
Trauma intensives work best for clients who have some emotional regulation skills and are not in active crisis. Complex trauma, developmental trauma, and single-incident trauma all respond well to intensive formats when delivered by experienced trauma therapists.
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Therapy intensives are highly effective in both online and in-person formats and can work with practices that are 100% or where you work face-to-face. Online therapy intensives (conducted via secure video platforms like Zoom) have become increasingly common and offer several advantages:
Accessibility: Online intensives eliminate travel barriers, making intensive therapy available to clients anywhere in the world, including expats, remote workers, and those with mobility limitations.
Comfort: Many clients find processing trauma or doing vulnerable parts work easier in their own safe space rather than a therapist's office.
Flexibility: Virtual intensives allow for flexible scheduling across time zones and reduce logistical complications.
Clinical effectiveness: Research on telehealth therapy shows comparable outcomes to in-person therapy. For modalities like IFS and Brainspotting, the internal focus of the work translates well to online formats. Many therapists report no difference in depth or effectiveness between online and in-person intensives.
In-person advantages: Some clients prefer in-person intensives for the immersive experience, complete separation from daily life, or when combining therapy with retreat settings. Certain somatic or body-focused intensives may benefit from in-person presence.
Many therapists (including myself) offer both online and in-person intensive options, allowing clients to choose based on preference, location, and circumstances. The intensive format works powerfully in both settings. What matters most is the extended therapeutic time and the modality expertise of the therapist.
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Therapy intensive pricing can range widely, from £2,000-£6,000+ for a 12-15 hour format, depending on your experience level, credentials, modality specialisation, and market.
However, pricing intensives isn't as simple as multiplying your hourly rate: intensives deliver concentrated transformation that would take months of weekly therapy, and your pricing needs to reflect that accelerated value.
Most therapists struggle with two common mistakes: underpricing because they lack confidence in the format, or overpricing without the clinical skills to deliver transformational results. Both create problems for your practice sustainability and client outcomes.
The business strategy component of the 1:1 Therapist Intensive Immersion helps you determine the right price point for your specific situation — your experience level, your market, your modality, and the transformation you deliver. You'll learn how to confidently discuss pricing with clients and position the value of intensive work. Most therapists who complete this training adjust their pricing within the first 6 months as they gain clarity on the true ROI they provide.
Pricing your intensives well isn't just about the number—it's about understanding the value, communicating it effectively, and attracting clients who are ready for deep work.
Other options for therapists
One-Off Business Consults
(Limited Availability)
If you’re not ready for the full immersion package but would like to explore how intensives could fit into your solo or group private practice, I occasionally offer one-off 90-minute consulting sessions.
These are best for therapists who already have a clear vision and just need specific guidance on pricing, positioning, or logistics.
Contact me to find out when I’m next available for a one-off consult.
IFS + Brainspotting full therapy Intensives for therapists, coaches + practitioners
I love creating personalized intensive therapy experiences for fellow helping professionals, so that they can more deeply explore their own inner worlds with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Brainspotting.
This might be for you if:
You want to ‘test-drive’ one of these modalities in a deep way, before taking expensive and time-consuming training
Like many of my clients and many therapists, you identify as an ‘over-achiever’ and ‘always the helper’ - and would value someone who really understands this way of operating (from both lived experience and therapeutic specialization)
You want to continue with your own work to deepen your impact as a dedicated IFS or Brainspotting practitioner, and can see how a longer, richer container could enhance your abilities to attune with clients
You work within other modalities but want your own therapy to be parts-based (IFS), trauma-ready (both IFS and Brainspotting) and more spacious
You have ambitious financial and career goals and would like to work through any blocks or parts that feel activated around this - including money mindset and raising fees
You’ve had experience with IFS therapy but would love to try the intensive approach personally
Click here to message if you’d like to explore your own IFS or Brainspotting therapy journey with me. Please mention what kind of therapeutic work you do in your email.
IFS Intensives for therapists | Therapist Intensive Immersion and business coaching | Brainspotting Intensive training
IFS Intensives for therapists | Therapist Intensive Immersion and business coaching | Brainspotting Intensive training
other services for therapists
IFS Learning + Consulting For Therapists
I offer introductory and highly experiential 1:1 professional development and learning sessions for therapists who want to learn more about the Internal Family Systems model and bring Parts Work into their practice.
I work with highly experienced therapists and new therapists who want to bring this transformational work into their practice. This can often act as a useful bridge between reading “No Bad Parts” and the commitment of taking part in an official IFSI training.
I offer 1:1 programmes, which are bespoke to the clinician’s needs. These sessions begin from 90 minutes up to 6 hours.
Click here to email me about learning and development opportunities regarding the IFS model.
