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Part I | Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy: Core Principles, Skills and Integration Considerations for Clinical Practice

The buzz around IFS therapy is undeniable among therapists.

They're raving about its non-pathologizing approach and telling everyone that it’s allowed them to delve into deeper work with greater ease, fostering sessions that feel collaborative, fluid, and more authentic than ever before.

And now with this 1-day course, you can get a robust learning experience complete with lectures, demonstrations, and practical real-world applications that will deepen your understanding of the IFS framework and enhance your therapeutic skills.

You’ll join Stacy Ruse, LPC who specializes in using IFS therapy for gentle and effective trauma work with clients and provides consultation to help other clinicians reach their full potential using the IFS model.

With her specialized guidance and expertise, integrating IFS therapy concepts into your practice will feel easy and natural…adding new and beneficial dimensions to your work right away.

You’ll end this program better able to navigate complex trauma with confidence, facilitate healing conversations, and guide clients toward profound transformation.

Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your therapeutic approach and make a lasting impact on your clients' healing journey.

Register now!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians
  • Others in caring profession

Outline

Introduction to the IFS Model

  • Brief history of IFS
  • Basic assumptions and holistic approach
  • Inclusivity, cultural humility, and competency
  • Therapeutic and clinical applications

The Self-Led Therapist

  • The core self
  • The 8 C’s of IFS therapy
  • Self-qualities extended
  • How to distinguish self from parts

IFS Therapy Guide to Parts

  • Types of parts
  • How do we clinically relate to parts?
  • Managers: the proactive parts
  • Firefighters: the reactive parts
  • Exiles: the wounded & shadowed parts
  • Guided practice

Foundational IFS Therapy Step-by-Step

  • Unblending the system for emotional regulation
  • The 6 F’s of IFS: Getting to Know Parts
  • Shifting to inner story & connection
  • Getting to know exiles
  • Integration work
  • Video demo – IFS therapy in action
  • Integration with other models

Evidence, Research Limitations, and Treatment Risks

  • Examining the current research and research limitations
  • Addressing potential risks
  • Contraindications and other considerations

Objectives

  1. Discuss integrating the "observer self" concept in psychotherapy by quantifying its impact on enhancing client introspection and self-reflection.
  2. Summarize the fundamental principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS)therapy and how they apply to clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of how therapists' awareness of their internal processes impacts their clinical work, the therapeutic relationship and client interactions.
  4. Evaluate the preliminary support for IFS as a promising practice for the treatment of PTSD among adults with a history of childhood trauma.
  5. Utilize the Internal Family Systems model to enhance self-awareness and improve interpersonal skills in clients.
  6. Examine the potential risks, contraindications, and other considerations associated with using the IFS model.

Copyright : 03/11/2024

Part II | Applying the IFS Model in Couples Therapy: Working with Inner Parts for Reconnection and Deeper Intimacy

Trapped within the well-worn patterns of conflict and resistance, couples spend so much time looking at each other as the source of their pain that they often overlook how their own systems contribute to the problem.

In the relentless dance of blame, frustration and distance, they lose sight of their inner landscapes, which are so crucial to understanding and healing their relationship.

That’s why if you work with couples, you need to be using IFS therapy.

The IFS model offers a simple and effective way for clients to understand their inner worlds and access their innermost parts, including the protective and wounded aspects of themselves that can perpetuate cycles of conflict. And when you apply this approach to couples therapy, you can make remarkable changes in the ways couples interact and relate to themselves and one another.

Now in this recording you’ll watch Dr. Mona Barbera, author of the awardwinning book Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy – based on the Internal Family Systems model.

Dr. Barbera will show you how you can use strategies from IFS therapy to:

  • Foster self-awareness and self-compassion in both partners, creating a foundation for healthier communication and empathy.
  • Empower couples to support each other in their individual healing processes, strengthening the bond between them.
  • De-escalate conflicts with tools to promote more productive conversations.
  • Help clients recognize the protective and wounded parts in themselves and their partners, facilitating a shift from blame to understanding.
  • And much more!

Don’t miss this chance to enhance your skills, bring transformative change to your clients, and revitalize your couples therapy practice.

Purchase today!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Summarize the fundamental principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how they apply to clinical practice.
  2. Utilize the Internal Family Systems model to enhance self-awareness and improve interpersonal skills in clients.
  3. Evaluate the clinical implications of the relationship between self-leadership and relational outcomes.
  4. Develop an understanding of how therapists’ awareness of their internal processes impacts their clinical work, the therapeutic relationship, and client interactions.
  5. Evaluate the preliminary support for IFS as a promising practice for the treatment of PTSD among adults with a history of childhood trauma.
  6. Identify how using IFS therapy approaches in couples treatment will expose vulnerable emotions between individuals.

Outline

Understand the Basics of Internal Family Systems Therapy

  • Overview of Internal Family Systems therapy
  • Key concepts, such as self-energy, protectors, and exiles
  • The role of the therapist in guiding couples
  • Research and research limitations

Use IFS Model Principles to Assess Readiness for Couples Therapy Success

  • How to determine if partners are able to benefit from IFS couples therapy
  • Barriers that impact readiness
  • Indications and contraindications for couples therapy and IFS therapy
  • The goals of IFS therapy with couples

Get Started: Create IFS Therapy-Informed Treatment Plans for Couples

  • How to find out if your own parts get in the way
  • Develop goals unique to the couple
  • Ensure treatment remains focused on the actual problems
  • Recreate the problem in real time in the therapy room
  • Avoid unsuccessful, draining, or unfocused sessions

Integrate the IFS Model into Your Couples Therapy: Key Applications to Strengthen Connection, Open Communication, and Resolve Conflicts

  • How partners’ inner systems interact
  • Inner parts that may contribute to relationship issues
  • Identify protectors and their good intentions
  • Establish appreciative relationships with protectors
  • Find the right depth of intervention
  • Healing exiles
  • Restore natural connection with unburdened inner systems
  • Release self-awareness, self-compassion, and innate communication
  • IFS strategies to identify and communicate needs, fears, and concerns
  • Release the confidence of the couple to solve their own problems

Apply the IFS Model to Partners with Trauma

  • How past traumas may affect a couple’s dynamics
  • Identify trauma-related inner parts and their influence on the relationship
  • Use IFS to facilitate trauma-informed couples therapy approaches
  • Avoid pitfalls with traumatized partners

Case Studies and Practical Examples: How IFS Therapy Can be Used to Address Common Relationship Challenges

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

Copyright : 04/09/2024

Part III | Self-Led Sexuality through IFS Therapy: A Parts Work Approach for Healing, Intimacy, Pleasure and Connection

There are few issues that trigger our parts more than sex.

And when you work with clients who struggle with sexual issues, they’re often dealing with shame, guilt, confusion, and a lack of understanding about their own experiences.

Plus, the sensitive nature of sexual topics can make it difficult for clients (and let’s face it, many therapists) to open up and explore these issues in therapy at all.

But sex and sexuality are huge parts of your clients’ lives…and you need to be able to address them in their treatment.

Now in this program you’ll learn to use the popular IFS therapy approach to address sexuality in your work…all without needing to be a specialist.

You’ll join Patricia Rich. She’s a Certified IFS Therapist, Approved Consultant and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor whose work has been praised by IFS therapy developer Richard Schwartz.

Intended for those with a basic familiarity with IFS, she’ll invite curiosity about the parts of the client system that play roles in their sexual dilemma, teach techniques to find and befriend these parts, and offer ways to recognize the emergence of the client’s core Self Energy.

She will also guide you, the therapist, toward your own parts so that you can gain the clarity to help your clients to explore sexuality while maintaining appropriate boundaries, staying within your scope of practice and knowing when a referral is necessary.

Whether you work with couples or individuals, you’ll gain tools that can respectfully and gently facilitate access to this inner terrain and open new avenues for sexual growth and healing.

And with IFS therapy it will all feel so much more accessible for both you and your clients. No more struggling or avoiding these crucial conversations altogether.

So don’t wait. Register now!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Summarize the fundamental principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how they apply to clinical practice with sexual issues.
  2. Identify four common sexual burdens and how they may impact clients’ sexuality.
  3. Identify common challenges therapists face when working with sexuality in therapy and how IFS offers a framework for overcoming them.

Outline

Exploring Sexuality through the Lens of IFS

  • Current sexual contexts culturally and clinically
  • Benefits of BeFriending Sexuality
    • For clients-individuals, couples
    • For clinicians
  • Common barriers for clients and clinicians
  • Other approaches to working with sexuality and their gaps
  • The integrative Self-Led Sexuality model
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

Self and Parts in the Internal Sexual System

  • Roles protector parts take on in the internal sexual system
  • Exiles, sexual burdens and how they accrue
  • Self Energy can heal and harmonize the system
  • Body parts and processes as part of the system
  • Befriending, Unblending and Unburdening
  • The Self-led Sexual System
  • The Six S’s of Sexual Self Energy

Your Self Energy is Key: Therapist Parts Related to Sexuality

  • Accessing your own Self Energy
  • Common barriers, biases and blindspots
  • Self-led curiousity vs. Part-led curiousity
  • Finding and unblending therapist parts
  • Assessing your context and scope of practice
  • Incorporating ongoing contracting and consent
  • Ethical practice and use of consultation and referral
  • Befriending your own sexual system

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 05/06/2024