Services – The Healing Rooms

The Healing Rooms offers provides free or low cost access to a range of group spaces and resources as well as free or discounted 1:1 IFS therapy or general counselling services.

Therapeutic Spaces on Offer

There are currently a range of spaces including for black women only and spaces open to women of all ethnicities.

IFS

IFS themed spaces to work with issues that relate to that specific theme. The format of these spaces range from therapeutic sharing only spaces in response to select material usually around a specific theme, to spaces where you are supported by an IFS trained therapist to identify and connect with parts and work through the healing process discharging burdens as appropriate.

IFS and Family Constellations
We work in small groups of about 6. Participants are both able to come as issues holders or representatives with both roles offering both insight and healing to all in attendance. This is energy work and energy hygiene is encouraged.

1:1 Counselling Services
Counselling is a collaborative, confidential process that supports people in exploring their feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. It provides a safe space to make sense of difficulties, heal emotional wounds, and develop healthier ways of relating to self and others. An integrative therapeutic approach allows our therapists to draw from a range of therapeutic models to tailor work to each client’s needs.

1:1 IFS Sessions
Internal Family System (IFS) is a gentle yet powerful approach to healing that sees each person as being made up of Parts such as an inner critic, protectors, or exiles. In therapy, the client learns to get to know these parts with curiosity and compassion (see the IFS section below for a more comprehensive understanding).
At the centre of this work is your core essence Self/Spirit and with guidance, you will learn, at a pace right for your system, to support Parts that are struggling, offering them understanding and healing.

Self Love connection Spaces (Healing occurs in community)

These may or may not be IFS themed and will support you in cultivating Self Energy, compassion and self-love, deepening your relationship to Self (enabling you to connect more deeply to others). These will be facilitated through a range of mediums, including: art, movement and play.

Retreats/Workshops
In person retreats facilitate depth connection, and focused work around specific topics. As well as work and reflection, retreats are a space for restoration, and therefore transformation.

As Above, so Below (Black Women Only)
Longstanding and running As above, So below, a safe space for black women to connect to self and each other in recognition that what goes on in our external realities is a reflection of what occurs within our internal systems. The space provides an opportunity for women to cry together, laugh and bawl as we look at what gets in way of our connection to our core essence whilst supporting each other’s upliftment.

A range of therapeutic approaches are used at the healing rooms often blending modern evidence based therapeutic frameworks with ancestral wisdom, creating a unique and innovate approach to healing.

Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy is a therapeutic approach made up of a synthesis of modern western clinical approaches and ancestral wisdom & traditions.

The psyche is seen as being made up a number of parts which we might express when we talk about a part me wanting to go out and a part of me wanting to stay in.

There are three main categories of parts:

Exiles: are usually younger parts that have been wounded or hurt and carry difficult emotions and/or beliefs known as burdens.

Protectors: protect Exiles. There are 2 types:

Managers: help us manage our day to day life and include perfectionist parts, high achievers, inner critics
Firefighters: react when one of our exiles have been activated and include: social/food bingeing parts, raging, dissociated and fantasising/day-dreaming parts.

Self: at the core of each individual is an essence or Self/Spirit/Soul that is whole, compassionate and able to both lead and provide healing within.

As within, so without

Our external communities are a reflection of what we are experiencing in our inner system. Some assumptions of the Internal Family System Therapy model are that all parts belong and no part is inherently bad, and that each part has a positive intent regardless the behaviour.

Therapy will support you in identifying parts and getting to know them, understanding their role within your system and facilitating the release of any burdens. You will be supported to reconnect to/deepen your existing connection, to Self the healing agent in your system, and all toward the aim of becoming Self led and bringing more harmony and balance in the system.

Family Constellations Therapy

Is a western therapeutic approach with roots in ancestral understandings which enables exploration of issues within the family system which may be influencing your life in the present. This can include patterns of behaviour, specific feelings and nervous system responses.

The approach posits that the family system is an energy system which functions optimally when specific Orders (rules) are adhered to that allow the flow of love within the system. When these are not adhered to the flow of love becomes blocked. The system attempts to redress this imbalance by pulling descents from future generations to take on the burdens of those that came before them. This happens unconsciously and causes unhealthy ways of fitting in/strategies for survival.

Family constellations allows us to bring into consciousness what is unconscious. This may include understanding the origins of specific issues, enabling a person to make conscious choices about their life and where applicable carry out the actions necessary to restore the flow of love within the family system.

How it works: people are selected to represent different elements of your issue and then tune in intuitively/energetically to those respective elements. The energy guides the process and allows for exploration of your issue, relationship dynamics, and resolution of your matter (which may be to bring into conscious awareness what was unconscious).

IFS Constellations

IFS Constellations is an integration of IFS and Family Constellations allowing the working through of issues impacting parts including complex internal conflicts, hidden and shamed parts, as well as parts that are difficult to be with or witness. People are selected to represent parts on behalf of the issues holder and as within family constellation therapy, the energy of the constellation would guide the process.