IFS Intensives
An intensive healing experience for the woman who understands herself completely and still doesn’t feel free.
Held by Kathryn Grace, Occupational Therapist and IFS facilitator.
There’s a particular kind of stuck that doesn’t look like stuck from the outside.
You’ve done the work. You can name your patterns, you understand where they came from, you could probably explain your own psychology more clearly than most people could explain theirs. And still, something underneath hasn’t moved. You know better, and you don’t yet feel better, and the distance between those two things has started to feel like its own quiet kind of grief.
Maybe you’re standing in the middle of something. A marriage that ended, or is ending. A loss you’re still carrying in your body. The strange disorientation of becoming a mother. A version of yourself that no longer fits the life you built around her. A threshold of some kind, the sort of season where the old way of being doesn’t work anymore and the new one hasn’t arrived yet, and you’re somewhere in between, trying to keep functioning while something much larger moves through you.
This is for the woman in that doorway.
Why an Intensive?
Most therapeutic and coaching spaces are short and segmented and 50 minute to hour sessions are the norm. And while that has its place (short solution focused therapy, business and strategy focused sessions), sometimes what your system really needs is time to stay in a process without the clock cutting you off just as something tender begins to move
In an intensive, we don't have to rush or manage the depth to fit the hour. We get to keep going, following the thread wherever it leads, staying with what's arising until it actually completes.
There’s something about extended, uninterrupted time that shorter weekly sessions can’t quite offer. Your nervous system settles. Your parts begin to trust the space. And when there’s finally enough room to stay with something, it tends to move in its own way and at its own pace, without being hurried toward anything.
If you've ever been on a retreat and felt that particular quality of permission to actually arrive somewhere, that's the closest thing to what this feels like.
This is for you if….
You can feel the difference between understanding something and being free of it, and you’ve grown tired of living in the space between the two.
You’re in a season that’s asking something real of you, a grief, an ending, a becoming, and you’d like to meet it from somewhere grounded rather than simply survive it.
You’re ready for deep, sustained work, and for the kind of change that reaches further than the thing you came in with.
You hold a great deal. You lead, you parent, you carry other people, and the idea of weekly sessions stretching out across months doesn’t fit the life you’re actually living right now.
You’ve had moments of feeling led from somewhere deeper in yourself, and you want to know that place better, with real time and real space to let it settle.
You’re familiar with IFS and want to take your journey deeper and in an accelerated format
What to expect when we work together ↓
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We start with a free 20-minute conversation, a chance to get a feel for each other, talk through what you're carrying, and make sure this is the right fit. If it is, we'll talk through timing and next steps.
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Before we meet, you'll receive a detailed intake form. This is where you share your story, your patterns, what you're hoping to shift. It means our time together starts from a place of depth rather than catching up.
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We meet for 90 minutes, one to three weeks before your intensive day. We review your intake, align on what we're working with, and begin. Often this session opens things up in ways that set the tone for everything that follows.
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2 consecutive days of 4 hours. This is the heart of the work. Unhurried, uninterrupted, and entirely yours.
You'll also receive a pre-recorded embodiment session, a therapeutic yin yoga practice and guided meditation to support your processing and integration.
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We meet again for 90 minutes, one to three weeks after your intensive. This is where we look at what moved, what's settling, and how to bring it into your actual life. Integration is part of the work, not an afterthought.
(11 live contact hours + recorded embodiment and integration practices)
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The Investment
The Intensive
Tailored intake and workbook
90-minute opening session
8-hour intensive (Two consecutive half days)
Pre-recorded embodiment and integration session
90-minute post-intensive integration & closing session
(11 live contact hours + recorded practices)
$3,400 AUD
A payment plan is available, reach out when you apply.
Intensives are offered 1–2 times per month.
Hi, I’m Kathryn
For most of my life, people described me as calm.
I was never calm. I was just very, very good at managing the surface while my inner world felt like a minefield. Highly functioning, exhausted, surrounded by people and somehow belonging nowhere. I could mould myself into almost any room, any relationship, any version of who seemed to be needed, and I did, for years.
A personality test once called me "agreeable." It haunted me. Because agreeable was the furthest thing from what I actually felt inside, it was just what happened when I stopped trusting that who I actually was would be enough.
The gap between how I appeared and how I felt is where I lived for a long time. Finding my way out of it is what this work is built from. And holding space for that journey in other women is the thing I feel most called to do.
Training & Experience
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Bachelor of Science (Health Science) — Curtin University
Masters in Occupational Therapy — Curtin University
Certifications & Training
Thinking Heart 16-Week IFS Intensive — David Stern & Sigrid Kulkowitz
Nuance and Attunement in IFS — Stephanie Mitchell
Foundations of IFS — Stephanie Mitchell
Richard Schwartz In-Session IFS Masterclass Series — Healing Trauma & PTSD
Frank Anderson's IFS Trauma Treatment Program — 4-Month Online Intensive
IFS Institute Online Circle Program
NARM Complex Trauma Training
Spiral Practitioner — The Spiral School of Awakening
I bring both formal training and lived experience to this work.
For those who want the full picture:
FAQs
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It's a powerful, immersive way to work with Internal Family Systems without the pressure of weekly sessions. Instead of trying to squeeze deep work into 50-minute appointments (where you're just getting to something tender before the clock runs out), intensives give us space to stay with the process.
You're not skipping steps, you're giving yourself the gift of uninterrupted time and full presence. The healing is just as deep (often deeper), because your system finally has space to soften, integrate, and feel the shift.
You’re also supported with embodiment practices and tools to support your experience. -
This is for you if:
You're feeling stuck in familiar patterns and want to feel movement now, not six months from now
You've been carrying something heavy, a trauma, a stressor, a recurring emotional pattern and you're ready to meet it fully
You're short on time but deeply committed to your healing
Weekly sessions feel too slow, or hard to sustain in your current season of life
If you're unsure, just reach out. A conversation is always the best place to start.
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It’s a different shape of work. Weekly sessions build slowly, a piece at a time, with a week of ordinary life between each one. An intensive gives you a long, unbroken stretch where you can stay in a process without the clock pulling you out just as something opens. For some people, in some seasons, that kind of uninterrupted room is what finally lets something move. Whether it’s right for you depends less on which is “better” and more on what your system is ready for.
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Once you've booked a free consult, I'll get to know you and what you're holding right now. If we both feel it's a fit, I'll offer you upcoming dates.
Before we meet, I'll send you a short pre-session workbook so I can really situate myself in your inner world and tailor our time to you. This isn't cookie-cutter. It's custom, personal, and deeply attuned.
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Step 1: Book a free 20-minute consult
Step 2: We'll connect on Zoom and explore whether this format feels like a good fit
Step 3: If yes, I'll share available dates and next steps
Step 4: A deposit secures your space, and I’ll send you your pre-work
You can also email hello@itskathryngrace.com with "Intensive" in the subject line.
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Yes, completely virtual. You stay home, and this is actually a positive.
The depth of this work doesn’t exist in a physical room. It loves and breathes in the attunement between us, and in the time we give it, both of which travel perfectly well through a screen.
You get to drop in to the process in a space already familiar to you. Before we begin, you will receive a guide on how to prepare your space and your morning, so it lands as an immersion, rather than just an appointment in your calendar. -
IFS is a leading internationally recognised, sophisticated trauma-informed model that understands we're all made up of parts, inner protectors, exiles, and deeper aspects of Self.
Some parts push, some avoid, some perform, some spiral. IFS helps you meet each one with compassion, not shame. It's about listening, understanding, and restoring harmony from the inside out.
IFS is the umbrella I work under, however I carry experience and training from relational and somatic frameworks and wisdom traditions. -
The list is wide, but here are some examples:
Emotional burnout / Self-discovery & personal growth / Long-held grief / Inner conflict & parts polarisation / Self-doubt and identity confusion / Trauma healing and integration / Relationship ruptures / Big decisions and transitions / Patterns that insight alone hasn't shifted / Self-esteem / Sex & intimacy / Anxiety / Spirituality & spiritual exploration
The work doesn't stop here.
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