Title
“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
Repository Citation
Turns, B.,
Springer, P.,
Eddy, B.,
Sibley, D.
(2020).
“Your Exile is Showing”: Integrating Sandtray with Internal Family Systems Therapy.
American Journal of Family Therapy
1-17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2020.1851617