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Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): A Revolutionary & Transformative Treatment of PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse - and More!


Average Rating:
   24
Faculty:
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
Duration:
5 Hours 20 Minutes
Copyright:
Oct 07, 2016
Publisher:
PESI Publishing
Product Code:
RNV046425
Media Type:
DVD

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Description

  • Learn the Internal Family skill-set from the Pioneering Therapist
  • Take away the methods of IFS to help individuals, couples and families
  • Teach clients a new way to identify with their “Self”, maximize their internal “leadership” qualities and gain control over traumatic experiences
  • Case studies, videos and demonstrations of the model in action!

“What is going on INSIDE you?”

One simple question. That’s all it took to change my life’s work, my practice, and outcomes of my clients.

Early in my career, I was struggling to successfully treat adolescents and their families, especially my clients with traumatic wounds, eating disorders, anxiety or depression. I wanted to prove that systems thinking and family therapy was the solution, but it wasn’t working.

When I finally asked my clients what was going on inside of them, they began talking about different “parts” of them that made them do or feel things they hated. When these parts felt safe, they were less disruptive. In developing Internal Family System (IFS) therapy, I recognized that parts take on characteristic roles that help define the inner world of the client.

Over the past 33 years I’ve devoted my career to this approach to safely navigate and transform my traumatized clients’ inner worlds. In the process, clients access and lead their lives from what I call their Self-- a calm, compassionate, courageous inner essence that their parts come to trust.

This approach, hailed by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, will transform your clients’ lives as they learn to heal themselves. No more therapist directives or insights, rather IFS will provide a connection with your client that creates lasting healing.

Please join me for this special day-long training – I want to give you the skills you need to use IFS, so you can improve what you’re doing in the therapy room – and see transformation in your clients’ lives.

Richard Schwartz, PhD

 

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Richard C. Schwartz, PhD's Profile

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IFS Institute


Richard Schwartz, PhD began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief, and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called "parts." These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

In 2013, Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is the Founder and President of the IFS Institute. He maintains a private practice and has a employment relationship with Harvard Medical School. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Schwartz receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is a fellow of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare and is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. He is a contributing editor for Family Therapy Networker. Dr. Schwartz serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, the Contemporary Family Therapy, the Journal of Family Psychotherapy, and the Family Therapy Collections.


Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals

Outline

Internal Family Systems (IFS): Heal Your Clients Trauma

  • Origins of IFS – the work of Richard Schwartz, PhD
  • A non-pathologizing, accelerated approach rooted in neuroscience
  • Apply inner resources and self-compassion for healing
  • How to heal implicit memory wounds at the cellular level

The IFS Technique

Step 1: Identify the Diagnoses & Symptoms

  • Assess the diagnoses: PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders
  • Apply meditation practices
    • Find the symptom
    • Focus on its fear
    • Separate the person (Self) from the symptom
    • Become curious about it
    • Find the real story behind the symptom

Step 2: Gain Access to Internal Strengths & Resources for Healing

  • Move from defensiveness to curiosity.
  • Access compassion to open the pathways toward healing
  • Foster “internal attachment” work
  • The “Self” of the therapist-countertransference redefined

Step 3: Healing of the Traumatic Wound

  • Three phases to healing the wound:
    • Witness the pain
    • Remove the wounded part out of the past
    • Let go of the feelings, thoughts and beliefs

Empowering IFS-Specific Grounding Techniques - that REALLY work!

  • Flashbacks
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide
  • Dissociation

Objectives

  1. Describe the IFS Model and ways to integrate IFS into your clinical practice.
  2. Identify and work with your client’s parts.
  3. Identify and demonstrate how to work with the clinician’s own parts.
  4. Summarize an alternate view of symptoms and psychopathology, understanding that these are ways your clients are trying to protect themselves from emotional pain and psychological wounding.
  5. Explain how IFS increases the therapist’s curious and compassionate self when working with difficult and challenging clients.
  6. Demonstrate IFS-specific grounding techniques for healing, anxiety, substance abuse and trauma.

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Overall:      4.3

Total Reviews: 24

Comments

Andrea R - WOODBRIDGE, Connecticut

"Excellent presenter!"

Linda K - Independence, Missouri

"enjoyed the questions and answers"

Jeanie S - HOUSTON, Texas

"I love Dr. Schwartz. I would have enjoyed some visuals."

Jenny R - Malpas, Cheshire

"Fantastic training I want to integrate this into my practice and understanding of defences."

Mae W - CHELSEA, Alabama

"Excellent presentation and material."

Kristena J - CLINTON, Maryland

"Great knowledge of material. Awesome experience!"

SUSAN O - BERKELEY, California

"This was a fascinating, thought provoking and helpful seminar. I am a tech moron and I had no trouble viewing it online. Thanks so much."

Randy C - PETALUMA, California

"Tech support was very helpful"

Lynne R - LOS ANGELES, California

"Great presentation. I would like to view other trainings by Richard Schwartz."

Christine F - Aptos, California

"A very positive experience of the seminar and my interaction with PESI/"

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