Discover how to offer your clients deep and permanent healing with the life-transforming Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy model. |
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been hailed by Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk, the world's leading expert in trauma, as "the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively." |
You've likely heard your clients explain their feelings of conflicting emotions — "a part of me wants to…and then there’s a part of me that doesn’t…” as they grapple with their internal self, desires, and behaviours. With the IFS approach, you’ll help clients understand these conflicting parts, as well as a way to talk about them in a productive way.
Master IFS instructors Dick Schwartz and Frank Anderson will guide you step by step through these modules to fully prepare you to incorporate the transformative power of IFS therapy in your practice.
Module 1: The Essentials of IFS therapy with Dr. Frank Anderson
Join IFS and trauma expert Frank Anderson, MD, and learn all that this therapy model can do for you and your clients. In this practical and experiential workshop, you'll gain a foundational understanding of the IFS model — including its core methodology, neuroscience roots, and clinical application — so you can discover its full potential for permanent healing.
This module includes:
Session 1 — Overview of IFS therapy: In this session, Frank will offer a step-by-step breakdown of the IFS model and teach you how it applies to your clients. Learn the roles of emotions, pain and trauma within a person and begin to understand common client reactions such as substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, obsessing, conflict avoidance, binging, cutting and more. Discover how to identify the "core self" within the client that holds the capacity to lasting healing. | |
Session 2 — Gaining access to internal resources for healing: Through in-session video demonstrations and practical instruction, Frank will teach you how to assess your clients diagnoses and symptoms (such as PTSD, anxiety, depression and eating disorders) through the lens of the IFS methodology. Learn to establish therapeutic goals, and access proven processes for working with the various "parts" within your client. | |
Session 3 — In-depth overview of why IFS therapy works: In this session, you'll discover the science behind the IFS model, including the research and evidence that showcase IFS's unique ability to permanently heal both the brain and the body. | |
Session 4 — The Process to Permanent Healing: In this last session, Frank will guide you through a transformative five-step process toward permanent healing, including how to overcome abuse, trauma and other clinical issues. He'll also arm you with a post-healing process for use in future sessions and to teach your client for at-home use. Finally, through a moving in-session video demonstration, you'll see in action how to change your client's emotional memory so your clients can leave with the feeling of lasting healing. |
Module 2: Mastering Internal Family Systems therapy Step by Step with Dr. Richard Schwartz
See the IFS model in action, directly with the creator of the therapy model, Richard (Dick) Schwartz, PhD. Observe a dramatic and moving clinical session between Dick and Jody, a woman who’s been haunted by early childhood trauma her whole life. Watch as Dick guides Jody step-by-step through a journey that enables her to fully embrace her capacity for personal transformation. Then hear from Dick directly as he explains the moment-by-moment decisions that guided Jody to the single-session, breakthrough healing.
This module includes:
Session 1 — Introduction to IFS therapy: Learn how IFS therapy can maximise clients' potential for self-healing and self-compassion. A key to accomplishing this is recognizing the difference between inner parts and Self, and elevating the Self to an effective leadership position. | |
Session 2 — From Emotion to Integration: Clinical Demonstration and Commentary I: Watch Dr. Schwartz in-session as he implements his IFS approach with his client Jody who's been stuck for years and has lost hope. This session combines clinical video with lively commentary. | |
Session 3 —From Emotion to Integration: Clinical Demonstration and Commentary II: The clinical video and commentary continues in this session, concluding with a dramatic client transformation as Jody moves from chronic fear and anxiety to healing and joy. | |
Session 4 —Dick Schwartz Answers Therapist Questions about IFS therapy: Listen to the Q&A call recording with Richard Schwartz and Psychotherapy Networker editor Rich Simon. This session answers attendees' specific questions about how the IFS model can be integrated into clinical practice. |
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