IFS Immersion Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications
Are you ready to transform your practice with Internal Family Systems?
IFS has been hailed as “the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively” by Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times Best-seller The Body Keeps the Score.
And now, you can join this new online course where you will learn how to implement the evidence-based IFS model into your clinical practice.
Whether you’re brand new to IFS or have been practicing the model for years, you will discover how to refine and customize the model to fit your client’s unique needs and improve therapeutic outcomes for trauma, anxiety, shame, kids, couples, addictions, eating disorders, LGBTQIA+, racial trauma, and more…
Join this time-released course, hosted by Dr. Frank Anderson, featuring IFS Developer Richard Schwartz and nine of the best IFS innovators.
Through unusually candid interviews, recorded Q&A calls, detailed instruction, and clinical handouts, you’ll get the tools and strategies you need to bring new life and excitement to your own work.
Don’t wait, lock in your spot today!
Session Details
This 6-week course was designed to be flexible to fit in best into your schedule. The course will have three parts:
Part 1 | Intro to IFS | Available Immediately
IFS Development, Application and Transformational Model to Effectively Help Clients Improve Well-Being
With Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., & Founder of IFS; Frank Anderson, M.D., Senior IFS Trainer; Paul Ginter, Ed.D., Senior IFS Trainer
In this special 3-hour recording, you’ll join Frank Anderson, M.D., as he talks to IFS Founder, Richard Schwartz and Senior IFS trainer Paul Ginter. Together, they will explore how the model developed, it’s power, and it’s evolution into one of psychotherapy’s hottest clinical models.
If you are new to IFS, this recording will provide you with a rich foundational background as you begin your IFS journey. And if you are already familiar with IFS, don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear/learn more about the origins of IFS from the leaders in the model.
Part 2 | On-Demand Clinical Application Sessions
Each following week, you’ll get access to two clinical application sessions. Each session is approximately 1 hour long and available on-demand — so you can watch when the time is right for you.
Week 2 | Attachment & IFS: Healing Trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body
Chris Burris, LPC, LMFT, IFS Senior Trainer
Attachment & IFS: Healing Trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body When a client experiences trauma, their parts will split from the Self to survive. One part will serve the role of protection while the other will remain hidden causing an internal attachment wound. Learn the healing power of IFS and when parts work together, they heal together.
Week 2 | Treating Complex PTSD with IFS
Frank Anderson, MD, IFS Senior Trainer & Program Consultant
Trauma blocks love and self-connection. IFS is a transformational model in which allows clients to release these blocks from pain and heal.
- View trauma as a relational violation
- Repair the internal relationship when trauma is endured
- Empower your clients to overcome even the most complex traumas
Week 3 | IFS & Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the System of Parts
Cece Sykes, LCSW, IFS Senior Trainer
- IFS’s view of addictive processes as system-focused, not symptom-focused
- How polarization of parts impacts the clinical process
- Healing the underlying wound by restoring balance to the system
Week 3 | IFS & Disordered Eating: Heal the Relationship Between Food and Body
Jeanne Catanzaro, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Certified IFS Therapist
Almost every client you see holds shame about their weight, size, or health – whether they talk about it or not. The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of treatment provides a way to release that shame to discover an inner wisdom that guides clients to heal their relationship with food and their bodies.
Week 4 | IFS Approaches to Shame, Anxiety, and Depression
Mike Elkin, LMFT, IFS Senior Trainer
Shame is the fuel which drives all of the problems therapists treat. And IFS views anxiety and depression as strategies adopted by our protective systems to cope with shame.
Week 4 | IFS & Couples Therapy: Using Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) to Heal, Improve, and Provide Relationship Help
Toni Herbine-Blank, MS, RN, C-SP, IFS Senior Trainer
Learn first-hand from the developer of Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), and the application of IFS for couples. You’ll learn principles and interventions in addressing common struggles faced in working with couples. Change the way you work with couples today!
Week 5 | IFS with Children & Adolescents: Using Parts Work to Help Young People Heal
Pam Krause, LCSW, IFS Senior Lead Trainer
Adapt basic IFS principles for use with children, adolescents, and their families. Learn strategies for applying the model to younger clients and help them heal.
Week 5 | IFS Approaches with LGBTQIA+ Clients
Jim Andralis, LCAT, is an IFS Assistant Trainer
We live in a time of collective trauma. It is a shared experience that impacts the psychological and somatic health for both clients and therapist. This presentation will provide clinical tips on how to utilize somatic interventions for both client and therapist.
- The 3 essential somatic tools all clinicians need
- Why you need to compose a personal trauma narrative within the collective trauma context to relate to clients
- Key somatic techniques to reconnect with one’s innate somatic knowledge
Week 6 | Healing Racial Trauma with IFS
Deran Young, LCSW, IFS Institute Online Ambassador
The recent protests against racial injustice and police brutality have left many therapists wondering what they can do to be active forces for change in the therapy room and beyond. Using the framework of IFS, you’ll gain practical skills to help heal the traumatic wounds of oppression.
Week 6 | The Future of IFS & Beyond
Dick Schwartz, Ph.D., Founder of IFS
The IFS model is still being adapted throughout psychotherapy. Hear from IFS Developer, Richard Schwartz on where his vision on where IFS will go and his dreams for the future.
Part 3 | Recorded Q&A Calls | Available Immediately
Listen to two recorded Q&A calls to get answers directly from the IFS trainers. These two 1-hour recordings are designed to solidify your learning and get you ready to use IFS immediately!
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