Therapy & Wellness Offerings
Therapy Intensives & Wellness Retreats in Upstate, SC
Modern therapy, intensives, and wellness experiences designed for deep healing and exponential growth.
IFS Therapy Intensives
Experience an accelerated path to healing with mini counseling retreats or therapeutic small groups. These intensives are designed for individuals who are ready for focused work. Therapeutic small groups include three to four participants, creating a dynamic environment for inspiration, skill-building, and healing that cannot be achieved in individual sessions. Mini counseling retreats extended session times 2-4 hours, one or more days for individuals or couples are customizable to your schedule and offer a supported flow into the work and gentle re-entry back to daily life.
Wellness Retreats in Nature
Traditional counseling sessions and customized retreats are available at Jennifer’s serene outdoor center on Lake Robinson. Immersed in natural beauty, the retreat setting provides a calming environment that supports the healing process at every level—mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
Ecotherapy & Outdoor Counseling
Jennifer offers nature-based therapy in select sessions and wellness communities. With the support of animal therapy and hands-on interaction with the natural environment, clients are able to slow down, ground themselves, and experience therapy in a more relaxed and holistic way.
Professional IFS Training & Clinical Supervision
IFS & NVC Training for Therapists & Coaches
IFS and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) are adaptable methods for therapists, coaches, other healing professionals and leaders. Jennifer offers supportive, experience-based training for professionals interested in integrating these practices into their existing approach. She shares honestly about applying her knowledge with success and failure alike, and finds great joy in collaborative learning and sharing.
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Clinical Supervision & Consultation for Therapists​
One of Jennifer’s ongoing goals in her IFS journey is to become a consultant for those learning and practicing the art of the model. She came to IFS after many years of using other modalities, which has allowed her to recognize the intersections IFS makes with other therapeutic approaches. For those encountering IFS as their first modality, she considers it a gift—because it may be the only modality you’ll ever need. The model offers immense room for creativity and growth, and Jennifer continues to find joy in practicing and exploring in what she calls “the therapist sandbox.”
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Faith Leadership Training & Coaching
Faith & Spiritual Integration in Therapy
“It is common to humanity to utilize faith in God to survive and evolve.”
This remains true today, making it reasonable to expect that emotional and psychological recovery will intersect with a person’s spiritual beliefs. Healing can be much richer when individuals are supported in integrating their beliefs into the healing process. This is different from sharing the same beliefs as the counselor; it is more skillful for the counselor to support the natural flow between the client’s psychological system and their spiritual experiences.
Jennifer has been cultivating these faith integration skills for the past 10 years through her work as the director of a faith-driven mental health nonprofit organization. Aligned with the mission of that organization, she recognized the need to clearly and skillfully honor both the psychological and spiritual processes of human experience with integrity.
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A Personalized, Client-Led Approach​
Consider a person who enters therapy by sharing how their faith supports them in navigating emotional and psychological experiences. Jennifer carefully takes notice of this existing relationship and remains mindful of how it may emerge in their therapeutic work. Throughout the process, Jennifer supports the client using the IFS model, allowing their psychological and spiritual experiences to become clearer. Jennifer names the psychological process, while the client interprets the spiritual experience through their own beliefs. As a result, the client is often able to further develop their spiritual beliefs by differentiating them from the psychological process.
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Respect for Diversity in Belief Systems​
Even within mainstream religions, there are many different approaches to how individuals apply their beliefs personally. Spiritually integrated psychotherapy is intended to support a clearer and more fluid relationship between psychological processes and spirituality, allowing for a diverse and personalized expression of faith within the healing journey.
Different from many faith-based therapy models, spiritually integrated psychotherapy does not aim to teach, share, or change a client’s spiritual beliefs. Instead, it creates space between the psychological process and spiritual experience, allowing the client’s own framework to guide the integration.
It is entirely up to the client how much they want to incorporate or discuss their spirituality and how it relates to their mental health. A person’s relationship with their faith and faith community is always present in the work they are doing. Feeling free to acknowledge and connect and include that aspect of their life is the most effective way to support their therapeutic work.
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Experience with Christian Spirituality​
Jennifer has extensive experience integrating Christian spirituality with psychotherapy. She frequently works with clients who have been spiritually wounded by their religious participation and is open to working with individuals anywhere along the faith continuum.
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Consulting & Collaboration with Faith Leaders​
Jennifer partners with pastors, educators, and spiritual leaders to develop curricula, improve emotional growth, and facilitate evidence based relational practices within their communities. Her learned and intuitive understanding of systemic humanistic processes allows her to offer faith leaders practical tools they can weave into their own style of leadership. These collaborations are grounded in shared passion for safe, connected and growing communities.
Who This Faith-Integrated Approach Is For
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Individuals seeking to incorporate faith into their healing in a natural and supportive way: Anyone who regularly relies on their faith or spiritual practices to cope with life’s challenges can benefit from integrating those practices with new therapeutic skills. The connection between the mind and one’s spiritual nature is so close it can’t be measured. It is neither necessary nor beneficial to separate these aspects of the human experience.
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Individuals who value spirituality as part of their identity, but do not want it to be the sole focus of therapy: Each person is uniquely organized internally and best understands how their spirituality and psychological processes work together. That’s why this approach must remain client-centered and client-chosen so the work stays authentic, sustainable, and life-giving.
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Church leaders or faith-based communities seeking psychological insight to support their members: Leaders who are willing to explore their own inner and spiritual worlds are often the most supportive to their communities. There is great value when a psychologically informed leader leads. Moreover, faith communities grow strongest when they grow together through shared stories, listening, and creativity. Jennifer welcomes opportunities to help plan or participate in community events that support emotional and psychological well-being.
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Group Therapy & IFS-Informed Workshops
Supportive Group Healing
Jennifer Massey has over 20 years of experience leading transformative group therapy sessions. Clients often remark that her groups feel unlike any they’ve previously attended. Grounded in process, trust, and safe vulnerability, these spaces allow participants to grow together while supported by the collective energy and wisdom of the group.
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IFS-Informed Group Therapy
Group sessions facilitated from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model supports participants to work in with multiple angles of their personal life. The group energy can help deepen and accelerate healing, while maintaining a slow, spacious pace that honors individual autonomy.
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Faith-Integrated Groups-
Jennifer offers spiritually centered practice and therapeutic group experiences based on her early training in counseling discipleship—an approach that companions the psychological process rather than bypassing it with spiritual teachings. These groups weave evidence based psychological theory with spiritual principles and practices. Some group topics have included taking spiritual inventories, Emotional Healthy Spirituality (Pete Scazzero), Restoring God’s identity (Brennean Manning’s work) , Spiritual Sobriety (Richard Rhor’s work) Living the ministry of reconciliation (Neil Anderson and Latasha Morrison’s work)
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Specialized Workshops & Retreats
Jennifer’s workshops cover a wide range of themes from recovery to resilience and supporting others through change to repairing relationships. She offers customized events for churches, wellness communities, and small groups. All workshops are experiential, educational, and deeply human.
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Collaborative & Educational Approach
Jennifer uses collaborative reflection, interactive learning, and a wide pool of psychological and spiritual knowledge to guide participants. Her workshops and groups invite people to reconnect with what they already know and expand their understanding of themselves and others.
IFS-Based Individual Therapy in Greenville, SC
IFS therapy offers a peaceful, transformative approach to healing for individuals of all backgrounds. The process is especially impactful for those who are familiar with mindfulness practices or the IFS framework, but it is accessible and useful for anyone.
Because IFS promotes internal safety and connection, it reduces the emphasis on “finding the right therapist” and shifts the focus toward empowering the client’s own Self-leadership. Jennifer uses IFS to address issues such as:
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Complex PTSD and trauma recovery
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Chronic Mental health conditions
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Relationship conflict and rebuilding
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Upgrading coping skills for complex life
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Spiritual healing and integration
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Leadership support and training therapists and professionals
Sessions are available in-person in Greenville, SC and virtually across South Carolina.
Couples & Relationship Therapy (IFIO & NVC)
IFS for Couples (IFIO)
Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) is a powerful adaptation of the IFS model specifically for couples. This approach provides a practical, structured process for shifting out of chronic conflict, building emotional trust, and practicing new patterns of connection.
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Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers a simple and accessible framework for communicating in all types of relationships—including the one we have with ourselves. While the model itself is easy to learn, the real challenge often lies in unlearning existing methods and beliefs about communication. The NVC process is highly adaptable to any situation or relationship. It involves four core steps: listening inwardly, making objective observations, identifying feelings, and connecting with driving universal needs. The goal is to communicate about these four elements, rather than becoming entangled in story, circumstance, or opinion. NVC can be used to build and repair relationships and to support personal healing from relational wounds.
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Intensive Couples Therapy
Creating change takes time, repetition, and deliberate practice. Traditional one-hour sessions often don’t provide enough space for couples to fully unravel their usual patterns before stepping back into them. Intensive sessions, on the other hand, are longer and allow couples to experience what change feels and looks like before returning to their everyday routines. The IFS/IFIO approach, when supplemented with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Ecotherapy, creates a pleasant and relaxing therapeutic experience.
An intensive session can be customized but may include a four-hour format with an introduction, therapeutic activity, check in, deeper therapeutic work, a second activity, and a check out. Another option might involve three sessions per week over several days, each lasting one to two hours. These sessions might follow a sequence of introduction, review, therapeutic activity, and intention setting—real-time practice over a consistent period of time might allow some couples deeper understanding and integration.
FAQs About Therapy Services in Greenville, SC
Do you accept insurance?
Yes, for medically necessary services. Clients must meet the criteria for a mental health diagnosis to bill insurance. Jennifer is in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, and United. When possible she may submit electronic claims to out-of-network companies. Jennifer is responsible for informing clients with a good faith estimate- cost for services in advance and notification of any change to cost based on insurance payments. Clients are responsible for understanding and managing their insurance coverage and resolving insurance claim issues, including denials. Clients are responsible for the cost of the services received, even if insurance does not agree to pay.
What’s the difference between a therapy session and an intensive therapy session?
Traditional therapy is typically 1 hour and conducted indoors. Intensives are longer, may include outdoor settings, and often incorporate nature based activities. Many clients find they can experience deeper change more comfortably with an intensive format.
How do I know if IFS is right for me?
Explore online content, attend an introductory Q+A, or join a community-based IFS group to get a sense of how it works. Ask questions—IFS is most effective when it resonates with you.
Why are counseling retreats effective?
They interrupt the routine mindset and flow of life to help us remember our nature and rhythms that restore our energy and motivation. Retreats offer comfort and space around therapeutic work, making healing more accessible and sustainable.
Jennifer welcomes people from all races, ethnicities, ancestry, gender expressions, national origins, financial situations, abilities, sizes, religions, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
