“Your Exile is Showing”: Integrating Sandtray with Internal Family Systems Therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Publication Title

American Journal of Family Therapy

First page number:

1

Last page number:

17

Abstract

© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Internal family systems (IFS) therapy is an experiential model of therapy and views individuals as having numerous “parts” inside of them. These parts maintain a specific role in a client’s life and fall under one of the three categories–managers, exiles, and firefighters. Due to the experiential aspect of IFS and the concept of blending, visualizing the parts inside of a client can become challenging at best and impossible, at worst. This article provides a framework for integrating sandtray therapy with IFS to help clients name, visualize, and see the progress of their parts.

Keywords

Family therapy; Internal family systems; Sandtray

Disciplines

Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling

Language

English

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