Therapy NorthWest

15/09/2025

Sharing our book collaboration for integrating IFS into EMDR. Available for pre-order now. Thank you to David Polidi for all of his efforts and leadership with this 🙏

This is the first multi-author collaboration exploring the integration of IFS and EMDR. Order the book on Amazon!

12/09/2025

🐺IFS Retreat testimonial 🐺

Thank you Laura for sharing your experiences at our retreat. And for sharing all of your gifts 🙏❤️

07/09/2025

Brinscall Hall Wolves IFS Retreat. We are ready for you! ❤️🐺🐺

29/08/2025

New 2026 IFS Healing Retreats Released

We are delighted to announce three deeply transformative in-person retreats for 2026, created for therapists, psychologists, and practitioners seeking profound personal healing and professional enrichment.

Each retreat weaves together Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic practices, and ritual-based approaches to support your journey home to Self.

✨ Spaces are limited (maximum 14 participants per retreat) to ensure depth of experience and community connection.

If your heart is calling you to profound healing, we would be honoured to welcome you.

With warmth,
Zandra & the Therapy NorthWest Team


🌿 1. Healing the Mother Wounds –
An IFS & Somatic Retreat

When: 16–19 April 2026 or 19–22 June 2026

Where: Brinscall Hall, Lancashire
Total Price: £975 (deposit £175)

A sacred space for exploring the maternal wound and ancestral patterns that shape our lives. Through IFS, somatic release, yoga, sound healing, and ritual, we create space for profound healing, compassion, and renewal.

🌀 2. IFS & Somatic Practice –
Connecting & Healing

When: 8–10 May 2026

Where: Croston Old School, Lancashire
Total Price: £895 (deposit £100)

Blending IFS therapy with Polyvagal-informed somatic practices, this retreat helps you build inner and outer resources. With yoga, breathwork, sound, and optional reiki/shamanic journeys, it offers a holistic path to embodied healing and resilience.

🐺 3. Calling Us Home – Running With Wolves

When: 10–12 July 2026

Where: Croston Old School, Lancashire
Total Price: £895 (deposit £100)

Inspired by “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, this retreat invites you to reconnect with the Wild Woman archetype, embrace your voice, and find your pack. Through IFS, cacao ceremony, sacred yoga, sound healing, and shamanic journeying, discover the untamed strength and wisdom within.

Therapy NorthWest is committed to providing Consultation, Training, Workshops and Retreats to Psychologists, Therapists, Teams and Organisations that are transformational both for the clinician and client. The founder Dr Zandra Banford is an Approved IFS Clinical Consultant & IFS Certified Consultan...

10/08/2025

30/07/2025

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY (IFS)

IFS therapy has been cited as "the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively" by Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score.

Learn about IFS experientially using your own system and consider how you may integrate IFS into your current work for greater connection and effectiveness.

All welcome, no former knowledge of IFS is required

Sunday 23rd November

Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy.

02/07/2025

Come join us

This workshop explores how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can radically deepen self-awareness and enhance therapeutic practice.

23/06/2025

Closing our Women running with wolves IFS retreat. A beautiful gathering of phenomenal women diving inwards for healing, growth and reclamations.

The work that is also our own medicine.

06/05/2025

FLASH SALE OF ALL IFS ONLINE COURSES UNTIL FRIDAY.

40% Reduction on the following courses:

🎉 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘆𝘃𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀: 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺

Sunday 18th May. An experiential workshop covering the foundations of polyvagal theory and a number of body based exercises for different states to bring the vagus nerve online for yourselves and your clients. Integrating Polyvagal theory and somatic work into any therapy modality and with particular consideration of working with parts of the self.

Usual Price £125 (£75 until Friday)

🎉 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐅𝐒

10 day programmme learning the full application of IFS with supervised practice. We are the only IFS training programme offering where all practice groups are supervised by Approved IFS Consultants or Certified IFS Therapists.

Usual Price £1220 (£732 until Friday, final invoice will reflect price if booked 6/5/25 - 9/5/25)

🎉 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲

4th June. Usual Price £120 (£70 until Friday)

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Therapy NorthWest is committed to providing Consultation, Training, Workshops and Retreats to Psychologists, Therapists, Teams and Organisations that are transformational both for the clinician and client. The founder Dr Zandra Banford is an Approved IFS Clinical Consultant & IFS Certified Consultan...

04/05/2025

❤️ New Retreats for therapists and psychologists in 2026 released ❤️

HEALING THE MOTHER WOUNDS: AN IFS AND SOMATIC RETREAT FOR PROFOUND HEALING

https://therapynorthwest.org/2026-retreats/

30/04/2025

We say goodbye to our April IFS healing and connecting retreat but it will truly always stay with us.
In deepest gratitude 🙏

08/04/2025

New IFS healing retreat added for 2025

Healing & Connecting at Brockholes nature reserve.

12th, 13th, 14th October 2025

Restorative IFS Healing and Connecting Retreats Healing and Connecting Retreat Therapy Northwest offer 3 day retreats. They are particularly suited to individuals with some experience of IFS (altho…