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Have you considered hosting intensives? How does offering different modalities of therapy help you and your clients curb burnout? And which modalities are being used at the moment, both in intensives and counselling sessions?
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok discusses how to host intensives with Dr. Adina Silvestri.
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Meet Dr. Adina Silvestri
Dr. Adina Silvestri is a licensed professional counselor, hypnotherapist, and founder of Life Cycles Counseling in Richmond, Virginia. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in trauma recovery, addiction, and eating disorders, using integrative approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and hypnotherapy.
Adina works with individuals, couples, and families to help them access deep, lasting change—often starting with just one or two powerful sessions. Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with creative, mind-body strategies that support healing from the inside out.
Visit Dr. Silvestri’s website and connect on Instagram.
In This Podcast
- Practices for reducing burnout
- Starting to offer intensives
- Quick IFS breakdown
- How Adina runs her intensives
- Dr. Silvestri’s advice to private practitioners
Practices for reducing burnout
Dr. Adina Silvestri has a full schedule, and in between her professional and clinical commitments, Adina makes sure to take care of herself so that she is better equipped to take care of others.
Finding new modalities to offer the clients that I do see, I feel like the clinical field has changed so dramatically … We’re having more spaces for clients to just be clients and step into that authentic self, and [with] so many new modalities out there, that keeps me excited. (Dr. Adina Silvestri)
To help curb potential burnout, Dr. Silvestri incorporates new, relevant, and interesting modalities into her work, which supports both her and her clients’ enjoyment of the sessions and the overall experience.
Starting to offer intensives
Dr. Silvestri offers her clients intensives:
- When they ask for more specific information or skills on a certain topic
- If they are open to more non-traditional routes of therapy
- When they are onboarded and seem like they could be good fits
Quick IFS breakdown
IFS (internal family systems) is a type of therapy based on the concept that we each have a system of parts of subpersonalities within us, each with their own emotions, beliefs, and memories, basically like a family inside of us. [There are] parts that get along or sometimes [are in] conflict. (Dr. Adina Silvestri)
There are usually three types of parts: the managers who try to keep us in order and control, our proactive parts, the exiles who try to keep us hidden and carry our painful emotions, and firefighters who are quick to distract us from pain but can be destructive.
How Adina runs her intensives
Dr. Silvestri’s intensives have changed and developed over the years that she has been hosting and running them. In the beginning, they were more like therapy groups, but they have developed outward and become more streamlined with time.
They may include:
- Writing check-ins and processing
- Communities with substacks
- IFS-based parts work with directed writing practices
There seems to be a lot of room now for alternative approaches. More and more clinicians are becoming open to body-based and spiritual, and alternative therapies like IFS … Also, this is interesting, I’ve seen a lot more friendship counselling. (Dr. Adina Silvestri)
Dr. Silvestri’s advice to private practitioners
Your most powerful tool is within your expertise and in how you show up authentically and confidently to meet your clients.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Adina Silvestri – Writing Through Grief and Loss: An IFS Journal for Healing
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Useful links mentioned in this episode:
- Visit Dr. Silvestri’s website and connect on Instagram.
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Meet Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners who are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe.
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