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Frank Anderson's Internal Family Systems Trauma Treatment

International trauma expert and IFS-senior lead trainer, Frank Anderson presents a step-by-step guide to trauma healing using the transformative IFS therapy model. Through in-depth experiential training sessions, real in-session videos, and ample skill demonstrations, you'll develop the skills and confidence you need to help your clients overcome even the most complex traumas. PLUS, you’ll have exclusive access to 5 Live Consultation Calls with Frank where you will have even more learning opportunities including more demos, live practice, and Q+A. You will end this intensive online course prepared to integrate the Internal Family Systems trauma model with your current clinical models — so you can help your clients find hope, growth, resilience, and recovery.

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Objectives

Articulate the IFS model’s view of symptomology, demonstrating an understanding of how this destigmatizing perspective can increase self-awareness and self-compassion.
Explain the theoretical model of IFS and the concept of parts, with an emphasis on how the concept of parts can be used to conceptualize a client’s response to trauma.
Perform an IFS-informed clinical assessment, with an emphasis on identifying the relationship between traumatic experience and current symptoms.
Create an IFS-informed map of your client’s internal response to trauma using the concept of parts to describe specific components to be targeted in treatment.
Summarize each of the “6 F’s” discussed in the IFS model, including how each can facilitate trauma healing.
Utilize the “find,” focus,” and “flesh-out” steps of the IFS model to identify targets for trauma treatment.
Describe the IFS concept of “unblending,” summarizing how the IFS model can be used to facilitate an unblending process.
Articulate the IFS concept of Self, demonstrating an awareness of the unique qualities of self that are associated with improved mental health.
Identify the three primary types of parts included in the IFS model, articulating the specific role of each.
Identify the specific brain structures whose functions have influenced a deeper understanding of the IFS model’s concept of Self.
Utilize knowledge of brain functioning to educate clients on how the traumatized brain can change over time.
Describe the seven types of trauma, demonstrating an awareness of at least two key features of each type.
Define interoceptive attention, demonstrating an awareness of how this concept relates to the IFS treatment model.
Describe the role of the sympathetic nervous system in trauma responses, including a description of common physical manifestations of sympathetic arousal.
Articulate the IFS model’s view of countertransference, including how therapists can use this perspective to reduce interference throughout the therapeutic process.
Recognize the risks and limitations of using IFS in trauma treatment.
Differentiate between implicit and explicit memories, including examples of how each may manifest in traumatised clients.
Describe at least two top-down strategies and two bottom-up strategies, demonstrating an awareness of how each may benefit trauma treatment.
Describe the IFS method of Direct Access, articulating the role therapists can play to access clients in confronting their fears while facilitating emotional processing.
Describe how attachment theory informs the development of self-blame in attachment trauma and hypothesize how IFS concepts can be used to increase self-trust and self-acceptance.
Articulate the concept of “getting permission” in the IFS method, demonstrating an awareness of how the process may help increase hopefulness for traumatized clients.
Summarize the IFS conceptualization of addiction, demonstrating awareness of how parts-language is utilized to help clients understand the role of their use.

Copyright : 15/10/2023

EMDR & Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy: 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 therapy 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 one-day training you’ll join trauma expert Daphne Fatter, PhD, certified in both EMDR and IFS therapy, as she shares a how-to guide on integrating EMDR and the IFS model 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 therapy 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.

Join Dr. Fatter so you can:

Identify and resolve inner conflicts hindering your clients’ healing processes
Understand how EMDR and the IFS model 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.

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

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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.

Copyright : 20/10/2023

IFS Therapy Approaches to Shame, Anxiety, and Depression

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.

Join Dr. Frank Anderson for this engaging discussion with IFS Pioneer and Senior Trainer, Michael Elkin, LMFT as they explore the ability to be curious and compassion to these protectors caught in a trap, and help ease them out of their extreme roles, including:

How IFS compares and contrasts with other models of treatment for depression, anxiety and shame
How a relational and systemic approach can uncover and heal deep shame where other methods might get stuck
The impact of shame as an organizing principle in our internal systems
IFS interventions to unblend and promote healing of shame, anxiety, and depression

Don’t miss this in-depth exploration through the lens of the IFS model!

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Objectives

Appraise and analyze the roles of depression and anxiety as parts designed to protect from feelings of shame.
Investigate the process of using IFS interventions to unblend and promote healing of shame, anxiety, and depression.

Copyright : 31/07/2020

Healing Racial Trauma with IFS Therapy

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.

Join Dr. Frank Anderson for this timely discussion about racial trauma with Founder of Black Therapists Rock & IFS Institute Online Ambassador, Deran Young, LCSW as they explore how clinicians can create a safe space in therapy for clients of color.

Using the framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS), this session offers practical skills to help heal the traumatic wounds of oppression. You’ll discover how to:

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
Explore the ways in which Intersectionality affects therapy in order to better improve treatment outcomes for clients with diverse backgrounds.
And more!

You don’t want to miss this warranted conversation!

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Objectives

Assess culture and IFS parts to deepen the understanding of how they interact.
Investigates and elaborates on the 4 main legacy burdens of America: individualism, racism, patriarchy, and materialism.
Analyze the ways in which Intersectionality affects therapy in order to better improve treatment outcomes for clients with diverse backgrounds.

IFS Therapy & Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the System of Parts

Join Dr. Frank Anderson and Senior IFS Trainer Cece Sykes, LCSW for this compelling, in-depth discussion that conceptualizes addictive processes within the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. In just one hour, they masterfully cover:

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
Ways to manage inevitable countertransference within your own parts
And more!

If you work with clients who are struggling to overcome addictive behavior, you don’t want to miss this session!

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Objectives

Utilize an IFS-informed approach to case conceptualization with clients who present with addiction.
Differentiate between the manager, firefighter, and exiled parts in the IFS model.
Assess for common countertransference issues that may interfere with treatment.