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Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety and Grief: Clinical Tools to Connect Clients to their Parts for Deeper Healing

IFS is the clinical approach everyone is talking about...and for good reason.

Widely acclaimed by leading voices in the field and thousands of clinicians who have already integrated it into their practice, IFS is one of the most innovative and effective approaches to psychotherapy available today.

By recognizing that individuals are made up of multiple parts, each with their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, IFS transforms your practice and allows you to work with clients on a much-deeper level…

…so you can help them connect with and heal parts of themselves that were previously inaccessible.

And now in this training, you’ll discover how IFS can provide you a unique framework for working with your clients’ many parts so you can help them heal past traumas, reduce symptoms of anxiety, and navigate their biggest losses.

You’ll watch Certified IFS Therapist and Approved IFS Clinical Consultant Daphne Fatter, PhD. Dr. Fatter completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology under the direct supervision of world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and has been using IFS to achieve incredible results with clients for over a decade.

Full of specific skills, knowledge, techniques and insight building case studies, Dr. Fatter will empower you to:

Use simple steps and guided exercises to get started with IFS in your practice
Work with anxious parts in the IFS framework to reduce their intensity
Provide clients a sense of inner stability through the grieving process
Release emotional and physical trauma stored in the body with IFS techniques
Integrate IFS with EMDR, CBT and other treatment modalities you already use
And much more!

This is your chance to enhance your skills as a therapist and join the thousands of therapists who’ve already discovered the transformative power of IFS.

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Note: This product is not affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify toward IFS Institute credits or IFS Institute certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the fundamental principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and how they apply to clinical practice.
Evaluate the characteristics of Self and its role in the internal system of the client.
Examine the three types of parts in IFS and their impact on the client's internal system.
Interpret clinical symptoms through the lens of IFS and develop a comprehensive understanding of how to apply the model to the client's specific needs.
Describe the principles of IFS and how they can be applied in working with anxious parts to reduce their intensity and impact on clients' daily lives.
Implement self-leadership techniques to provide a sense of inner stability and support for clients navigating the grieving process, including working with exiles in grief and addressing common protectors.
Explore how to address trauma-related fears and concerns by working with protective parts and facilitating communication with exiles in the client's system.

Outline

Internal Family Systems: Heal Wounded Parts, Transform Protective Parts, and Deepen Connection with Self

Foundational principles and goals of IFS
Understand different parts of your clients’ internal system
Parts Led Systems vs Self-Led Systems
IFS, Cultural Identities, and Intersectionality

Steps of IFS Therapy and How to Get Started

The IFS approach to assessment and treatment planning
Develop a relationship with clients’ core self and develop self-leadership skills
Facilitating communication and collaboration between parts
How to integrate IFS therapy experiences into clients’ daily lives
Guided Experiential Exercises to help clients identify and connect with different parts

IFS for Anxiety: Working with Anxious Parts to Reduce Their Intensity

How IFS shifts a client’s relationship with anxiety and reduces symptoms
Identify “worrier” or “perfectionist” parts that activate in response to anxiety triggers
Facilitate communication with an anxious parts to understand their motivations
Unburden exiled parts and release blocked or stuck anxiety-related emotions
Practice self-compassion and self-care to reduce anxiety over time
Case Examples

An Internal Family Systems Approach to Grief: Providing Stability and Support for Clients Navigating the Grieving Process

The latest grief research and DSM-TR Prolonged Grief Disorder Criteria
Self-leadership to provide a sense of inner stability through the grieving process
Exiles in grief and how they can be accessed and worked with in IFS therapy
Addressing common protectors, such as avoidance, dissociation, and numbing
Integration of Art, Writing, Ritual & Cultural Practices with IFS
Using IFS to identify and process secondary losses
Working with acute loss, ambiguous grief, prolonged grief disorder
Intergenerational Trauma: Legacy Burdens & Grief
Case examples

IFS Therapy for Trauma, PTSD and Complex Trauma

How IFS differs in emotion regulation strategies from other approaches
Common therapist missteps in IFS
Address trauma-related fears and concerns by working with protective parts
Work with exiles to help clients process and heal from traumatic experiences
Developing self-leadership in clients to increase their resilience and coping skills
IFS techniques to help clients release emotional and physical trauma stored in the body
Navigating polarizations in the client’s system
How does IFS address Intergenerational, collective and ancestral trauma
Case Examples

Additional Considerations in IFS

Limitations of the Research & Potential Risks
Using IFS in Groups
IFS & Therapeutic Relationship
IFS & Countertransference, Vicarious Trauma, & Burnout
Therapist Self-Disclosure
Medications in IFS

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 09/26/2023

EMDR & Internal Family Systems (IFS): Integration Techniques to Resolve Inner Conflicts for Enhanced Trauma Processing

EMDR is one of today’s go-to trauma therapies for clinicians across the globe.

But when you work with complex trauma, you so often see clients getting stuck as their internal conflicts, (like feeling partly responsible, but partly helpless) get in the way of their ability to fully process the trauma.

Fortunately, IFS is the perfect complement to EMDR, giving you tools to work with these conflicting parts and giving your clients an accessible framework to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their experiences.

Now in this training you’ll watch trauma expert Daphne Fatter, PhD, certified in both EMDR and IFS, as she shares a how-to guide on integrating EMDR and IFS in treatment so you can more effectively work with the emotional, cognitive and physical aspects of trauma to reduce your clients’ symptoms, individualize their treatment, and create the sense of coherence and wholeness they need to heal and grow.

Dr. Fatter will give you a step-by-step guide to using non-pathologizing relational interventions from IFS at each phase of EMDR, so you can provide trauma treatment that meets clients where they’re at and skillfully attends to the unique needs of each client’s internal parts.

Watch Dr. Fatter so you can:

Identify and resolve inner conflicts hindering your clients’ healing processes
Understand how EMDR and IFS facilitate the process of memory reconsolidation
Explore clients’ internal parts that may be contributing to their current challenges
Develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-compassion in clients
Provide a foundation for internal relational repair within the client
Decrease the risk of client decompensation
Use self-tapping to promote emotional regulation
And much more

Don’t miss this chance to learn how you can combine these powerful treatments so you can more skillfully work with a wide range of clinically challenging clients including clients with complex trauma.

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Program Information

Objectives

Identify the key concepts and intersecting theoretical principles of both the EMDR and IFS models.
Explain the role of EMDR and IFS in processing and resolving traumatic memories.
Assess and identify appropriate clients for an integrated EMDR and IFS approach.
Use EMDR and IFS techniques to help clients identify and resolve inner conflicts that may be hindering their healing process.
Develop a treatment plan that incorporates trauma targets identified by the client and/or therapist and utilize EMDR and IFS techniques to effectively process these targets.
Guide clients through the EMDR and IFS process to promote a greater understanding of how their past experiences have influenced their current beliefs and behaviors.
Demonstrate how to teach and guide clients in using self-tapping as a form of selfregulation and coping skill both during and outside of therapy sessions.

Outline

EMDR and IFS: Shared Principles and Why Memory Consolidation is Key

EMDR & IFS: Shared Principles & the Differing Lenses of Trauma
Why the Memory Reconsolidation Process is Important to Both Models
Risks & Limitations of EMDR and IFS as Single-Model Approaches
Determining Factors to Integrate EMDR & IFS
Appropriate Client Candidates for Integrating EMDR & IFS

Setting Up Effective IFS-Informed EMDR

Benefits & Risk of Integrating IFS into EMDR’s 8 Phase Protocol
Applying an IFS Paradigm Shift into EMDR
Phase 1: History Taking, Treatment Planning, & Consent for Treatment Plan
Phase 2: Preparation & Resource Development
Introducing Self Tapping for Attachment Readiness and Repair

Inviting Self Presence into EMDR: Enhanced Assessment and More Comprehensive Trauma Processing

Finding Targets for Trauma Processing: EMDR vs IFS methods
Internal Relational Repair for Healthier Relationships with Themselves and Others
Phase 3: Assessment – Using IFS to Help Identify Targets
Phase 4: Desensitization – IFS Techniques for More Comprehensive Traumatic Material Processing

Practical IFS-Informed Interventions to Support Integration

Phase 5: Installing Positive Qualities – Using IFS to Counterbalance Negative Beliefs or Emotions
Phase 6: Body Scan & Future Template – IFS for Enhancing Sense of Safety and Trust in their Bodies
Phase 7: Closure – How Understanding Parts Helps Clients Reflect on Progress
Phase 8: Reevaluation

Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps

Benefits & Risk of Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps
How to Integrate Bilateral Stimulation into Steps of the IFS Model
The 2 Choice Points Within the IFS Steps to Integrate EMDR

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 10/20/2023

IFS and Polyvagal Theory: Healing Through Compassionate Connection

Despite the diversity of content that brings clients to therapy, difficulty regulating their emotional experience is at the heart of their struggles. Clients can feel hijacked by extreme emotional states, uncomfortable in their own skin, and think or behave in ways they wish they wouldn’t. Polyvagal Theory helps us understand what’s happening on a biological level when our clients are emotionally dysregulated. And IFS therapy offers a compassionate, non-shaming approach to healing the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of clients’ systems and increasing internal harmony and connection. In this session, you’ll:

Discover how IFS therapy allows us to work in a Polyvagal-informed way to help clients heal
Learn IFS strategies to shift your clients’ nervous systems towards regulation and help them access their own capacity for healing
Explore how to help your clients develop attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts
Discuss real video examples of how to seamlessly integrate IFS therapy and PVT in treatment

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

Develop skills to help clients foster attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts, as well as parts that strategically utilize adaptive survival responses, such as fight, flight, freezing, and numbing, for protection.
Theorize how Polyvagal Theory can help therapists implement IFS more safely and effectively, especially in the systems of clients with complex trauma.
Assess the impact of the therapist’s internal state on clinical work and how clinicians can use this awareness to facilitate client regulation and healing.
Analyze, through observation and discussion of real video examples, how to integrate IFS and PVT in treatment.

Outline

How Polyvagal Theory can help therapists implement IFS more safely and effectively, especially in the systems of clients with complex trauma.
Helping clients develop attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts, as well as parts that strategically utilize adaptive survival responses.
Recognizing the impact of the therapist’s internal state on clinical work and how clinicians can use this awareness to facilitate client regulation and healing.
Case studies
Discussion

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Healing Cultural Trauma with IFS Therapy: A Culturally Sensitive Approach

Despite an increased willingness in our profession to discuss issues of diversity, including race, sexuality, gender, class, etc., we still have a long way to go in addressing the traumatic effects of systemic oppression. As therapists, we can acknowledge and try to remediate these negative effects by providing culturally sensitive care for people who often feel unseen or misunderstood. Using the framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, this recording offers practical skills to help heal the traumatic wounds of oppression. You’ll discover how to:

Use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style
Apply the IFS model to help heal trauma, and acknowledge and own the parts of ourselves that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity
Increase your ability to avoid microaggressions and help clients explore emotional wounds with culturally sensitive techniques including, “The U-turn” and “Unblending”

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

Determine how to use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style.
Apply the IFS model to help clients heal trauma and address inner parts that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity.
Apply two culturally sensitive techniques to help clients explore emotional wounds.
Determine how to work from an anti-oppressive framework to enhance clinical outcomes by improving your therapeutic alliance with clients.
Perform assessment and treatment for psychological distress induced by marginalization.

Outline

Describe how to use the Intercultural Development Continuum with clients to explore how cultural perspectives impact communication and conflict style.
- Explore the six stages in the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
- Examine the three types of cultural conflict styles
Apply the IFS model to help clients heal trauma, and acknowledge and own the parts of ourselves that become reactive when discussing issues of diversity.
- Apply the basic principles of IFS to Cross Cultural Communication
- Utilize the IFS model to discover our own implicit bias
- Use the “8Cs” to understand the difference between operating from Self and Parts
List two culturally sensitive techniques to help clients explore emotional wounds.
- Practice doing the U-Turn
- Explore why Unblending helps in intercultural communication
- Understand how unburdening will increase capacity for compassion and connection
- Utilize the U-Turn, Unblending and Unburdening to successfully conduct Relational Repairs as needed
Explain what it means to work from an anti-oppressive framework to enhance clinical outcomes by improving your therapeutic alliance with clients/patients.
- Establish shared meanings of key terms, to include: culture, diversity, race, equity, bias, privilege and power
- Explain the theory of Kyriarchy
- Identify tools and practices that are culturally relevant to respond to the complex experience of oppression
- Explore the four primary Legacy Burdens in our society: Racism, Patriarchy, Materialism, and Individualism
Provide assessment and treatment for psychological distress induced by marginalization.
- Explain ways that structural oppression impacts the inner psychic system
- Analyze challenges and barriers that perpetuate health disparities and re-victimization in the clinical setting

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Embracing Suicidal Parts: Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to Heal Traumatic Wounds

This recording offers a practical exploration of how to approach suicidal ideation and behaviors from an Internal Family Systems approach. Examining the pieces of the psyche that drive these thoughts, feels, and actions, the IFS approach encourages the therapists to help clients make peace with, embrace and find love for suicidal parts.

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

Conceptualize suicide from the Internal Family Systems approach.
Employ at least 4 skills to integrate the IFS approach to suicidality treatment into other modalities.
Practice aspects of coping through the IFS approach for suicidal parts management.

Outline

Demonstrate the basics and foundational principles of IFS.
Conceptualize IFS theory as an intervention for suicidality.
Practice aspects of coping through the IFS approach for suicidal parts management.

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Flip Chart

Therapist Approved! Psychoeducational flip charts are a unique and reusable in-session therapy tool that bring clinical concepts to life.

Buy it once, use it hundreds of times!

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a non-pathologizing experiential, and compassionate approach that facilitates healing by tapping into the natural multiplicity of the human mind. In The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Flip Chart , Colleen West offers therapists an engaging and innovative visual aid for introducing the basics of IFS in session.

The chart’s simple and easy-to-use design makes it ideal for working with clients to reduce or resolve:

Anxiety, panic, and phobias
Anger and rage
Depression
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Complex grief
Substance use and addictions
Compulsive behaviors and OCD
Unexplained physical symptoms
Chronic illness
Childhood trauma and neglect
Disordered eating
And more!

Inside you will find:

23 full-color, interactive client-facing pages
Additional explanations and sample scripts on each corresponding therapist-facing page
Dry-erase client pages for easy markup, customization, and reuse