You’ve likely heard of the life-transforming Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy model thousands of clinicians are using – and the unbelievable results they are achieving with their clients... even those who are severely traumatised.
Now you can get the definitive Internal Family Systems Therapy essential skills course, designed for both beginner and advanced-level practitioners.
You’ll get an easy-to-follow and extremely comprehensive guide to using simple but incredibly powerful IFS tools and techniques...
...from not just one, but FOUR of the world’s leading IFS therapy approved senior lead trainers and consultants.
Join Nancy Sowell, LICSW, Cece Sykes, LCSW, Alexia Rothman, PhD and Frank Anderson, MD as they provide the step-by-step processes and practical knowledge you need to work with trauma, anxiety, attachment wounding, and so much more.
Don’t wait – get your lifetime access now to master IFS therapy and achieve deeper healing and transformation with your clients than you ever thought possible.
Essential Skills of Internal Family Systems Therapy:
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
Usually $1,279.99
Just $1,279.99 Today - Limited time only!Plus, earn up to 23.75 CE Hours!
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
“[Internal Family Systems Therapy] is the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively.”
- Dr Bessel van der Kolk, MD, world-renowned trauma researcher, clinician and best-selling author of The Body Keeps The Score
In this programme, you'll discover...
- An A-Z reference manual for IFS skills– one that you will have available on-demand with unlimited access - and can rely on again and again when treating clients in your practice.
- Practice-proven clinical insights, perspectives and practical guidance from four of the world’s leading IFS trainers
- Techniques to facilitate deep and powerful inner healing no matter your current proficiency with IFS
- Comprehensive, step-by-step processes
- Never before seen skills footage of IFS in action
- Simple but extremely powerful and flexible tools
- An evidence-based psychotherapy that empowers your clients
- And so much more!
Course Outline
Foundations and Core Concepts of the Internal Family Systems Therapy Model
With Cece Sykes, LCSW
With Cece Sykes, LCSW
Master the fundamentals of IFS and learn its key concepts such as categorisation of parts, identifying collective intentions and mapping your client’s inner system.
And you’ll get new and unique methods to work with defensive or vulnerable parts—allowing you to feel confident using IFS therapy with every client.
And you’ll get new and unique methods to work with defensive or vulnerable parts—allowing you to feel confident using IFS therapy with every client.
Effective Use of Direct Access: A Core and Essential Skill for Every IFS Therapist
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
This module provides you with step-by-step guidance on how to use direct access to meet your clients and their parts where they are in a compassionate manner so you can pave the way for deep connection and healing.
Using Key IFS Skills and Interventions For Working With Parts
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Cece Sykes, LCSW
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Cece Sykes, LCSW
The ability to identify and work with your client’s protective parts is essential to practicing IFS therapy. You'll identify a variety of clients' parts and their functions and how these can contribute to behaviours such as self-harming, suicidal ideation and addiction.
Advanced Skills for Working With Hard To Reach Parts in Your Most Complex Clients
With Nancy Sowell, LICSW
With Nancy Sowell, LICSW
Many of your clients' parts may be unable or unwilling to verbalise due to their age. You’ll refine advanced techniques for working with parts that lack verbal communication and see them in action via a real-life demonstration. You’ll be able to identify when you’re communicating with these Self-like parts, so you can connect with the client’s real Self energy.
Key Strategies for Deepening and Healing the Self To Part Relationship
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
With Alexia Rothman, PhD and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
For our client’s wounded parts to truly heal, they must connect with their own Self-energy. You’ll get the most effective and practice-proven IFS therapy methods to help your clients achieve deep connection with the Self including the “Six F’s” and a comprehensive guide to unburdening.
The Unique Role of Therapist in IFS Therapy: Countertransference Redefined
With Alexia Rothman, PhD, Cece Sykes, LCSW and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
With Alexia Rothman, PhD, Cece Sykes, LCSW and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
For us to be effective as IFS therapists, we must be in constant connection with our own Self energy. You’ll discover the “Five P’s” technique you can use to ensure you have enough Self energy to work effectively and proven methods to manage countertransference.
Using IFS requires an equal power balance between therapist and client. You’ll get powerful techniques to ensure this is the case in your practice. Finally, you’ll master the vitally important integration and post-integration stages so you can help clients deepen their healthy internal relationships between sessions and post therapy.
Using IFS requires an equal power balance between therapist and client. You’ll get powerful techniques to ensure this is the case in your practice. Finally, you’ll master the vitally important integration and post-integration stages so you can help clients deepen their healthy internal relationships between sessions and post therapy.
Legacy Burdens, Legacy Benefits and Integration
With Cece Sykes, LCSW and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
With Cece Sykes, LCSW and Nancy Sowell, LICSW
Once our clients' parts have been unburdened, this can leave them feeling lost and purposeless once they’re no longer required to perform their protective function. You’ll discover how to help clients integrate their newfound freedom into their day to day lives, including how to approach the end of sessions and therapy altogether.
Finally, you’ll learn everything you need to know about legacy burdens including what they are, where they come from, and how they can be used to actually provide benefits and deepen the internal connection for your clients.
Finally, you’ll learn everything you need to know about legacy burdens including what they are, where they come from, and how they can be used to actually provide benefits and deepen the internal connection for your clients.
PLUS! Register today and you’ll get 2 FREE bonus sessions with Frank Anderson, MD
Essentials in Understanding Trauma Related Parts Work
With Frank Anderson, MD
With Frank Anderson, MD
Master the Internal Family Systems Therapy skills you need to accelerate healing outcomes with complex trauma clients with internationally renowned IFS expert Frank Anderson, MD. Join Frank for an innovative discussion on understanding the parts of the self which get created in response to trauma, plus key interventions for treating attachment wounding and relational trauma.
How To Embrace Suicidal Parts With Internal Family Systems
With Frank Anderson, MD
With Frank Anderson, MD
Frank Anderson, MD gives you the step-by-step approach, skills and techniques you need when working with clients who have suicidal parts. You’ll discover how to work safely, effectively and compassionately with these parts through comprehensive skills sessions and demonstrations of the techniques in action!
Essential Skills of Internal Family Systems Therapy:
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
Usually $1,279.99
Just $1,279.99 Today - Limited time only!Plus, earn up to 23.75 CE Hours!
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Who Is This Course For?
This online course is suitable for anybody who wants to use Internal Family Systems Therapy with their clients, from complete beginners who would like to start integrating it into their practice, to seasoned IFS practitioners looking to refine their existing techniques. Common professions include Psychotherapists, Counsellors, IAPT Practitioners, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses, and other mental health professionals.
Meet This Course’s World Leading IFS Trainers
Nancy Sowell, LICSW, is an Internal Family Systems lead trainer and consultant in private practice on Cape Cod and in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a teaching associate at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she has been a clinical supervisor for many years.
Nancy has been a psychotherapist since 1992, working with individuals, couples, and groups. Nancy co-created an IFS treatment program for rheumatoid arthritis patients in a pioneering research study at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.
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Nancy has been a psychotherapist since 1992, working with individuals, couples, and groups. Nancy co-created an IFS treatment program for rheumatoid arthritis patients in a pioneering research study at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.
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Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW, consultant and senior IFS lead trainer, specialises in trauma and addiction and educates therapists internationally on how to apply the IFS therapy model to addictive processes. Additionally, Sykes is exploring how psychotherapy affects the therapist’s personal narrative. She lectures, consults, and leads workshops on these and related topics and has a private practice in Chicago. Her recent book IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More was released March, 2023.
Click here for information about Cece Sykes
Click here for information about Cece Sykes
Alexia Rothman, PhD, is a certified IFS therapist and consultant in Atlanta, GA. Alexia has been in private practice since 2004. She has received extensive training in Internal Family Systems Therapy from IFS developer Dr Richard Schwartz, and has assisted in multiple Level 1 and 2 IFS trainings around the country, as well as serving as a professional consultant for IFS therapists.
She is a United States Presidential Scholar who graduated summa cum laude from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar. Alexia received her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA, where she was an Edwin W. Pauley Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She has held adjunct faculty positions at Emory University and Agnes Scott College.
Click here for information about Alexia Rothman
She is a United States Presidential Scholar who graduated summa cum laude from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar. Alexia received her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA, where she was an Edwin W. Pauley Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She has held adjunct faculty positions at Emory University and Agnes Scott College.
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Frank Anderson, MD, is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.
He completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specialises in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.
Click here for information about Frank Anderson
He completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specialises in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.
Click here for information about Frank Anderson
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
Watch your email for your order confirmation and get instant access to all course materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate Trauma-Informed Practice via online and in-person delivery setup into your practice and your life. Click here for course objectives and outline.
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online. Plus, use the PESI mobile app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy into their clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 23.75 CE hours
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 23.75 CE hours
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Essential Skills of Internal Family Systems Therapy:
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
A Step-by-Step Guide for Trauma, Anxiety, Attachment Wounding, and More
Usually $1,279.99
Just $1,279.99 Today - Limited time only!Plus, earn up to 23.75 CE Hours!
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.