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Healing from sexual trauma can be a complex journey involving struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and other mental health and behavioural issues. At the cutting edge of treatment is the integration of Internal Family Systems with Integrative Relationship Therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to the benefits of viewing clients’ unwanted symptoms through an IFS lens, and you’ll explore how sex and relationship therapy can play a powerful role in integrating dismembered parts of the self. You’ll learn to apply the most effective interventions in the narrative, grief, and vision phases of treatment, and to move clients toward recovery. You’ll learn to help clients explore:
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| Manual - Healing from Sexual Trauma (4.1 MB) | 65 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Healing from Sexual Trauma - French (4.1 MB) | 65 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Healing from Sexual Trauma - Italian (4.1 MB) | 65 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Healing from Sexual Trauma - German (4.1 MB) | 65 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Healing from Sexual Trauma - Spanish (4.1 MB) | 65 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes 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.
Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.
His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.
His memoir, To Be Loved, was released on May 7, 2024.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice, is the co-founder of the Trauma Institute, and is the co-founding producer of Trauma Informed Media. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Tammy Nelson, PhD, is an internationally acclaimed psychotherapist, Board Certified Sexologist, Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She has been a therapist for 35 years and is the executive director of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute. On her podcast The Trouble with Sex, she talks with experts about hot topics and answers her listeners’ most forbidden questions about relationships. Dr. Tammy is a TEDx speaker, Psychotherapy Networker Symposium speaker and the author of several bestselling books, including Open Monogamy, Getting the Sex You Want, The New Monogamy, When You’re the One Who Cheats, and Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson maintains a private practice and is executive director and primary faculty at Integrated Sex Therapy Training Institute (ISTI) and has employment relationships with Daybreak University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc., and she additionally receives royalties from New Harbinger and Sounds True. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. Dr. Nelson has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tammy Nelson serves on the board of advisors for the World Association of Sex Coaches. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, American Association of Sex Educators, Sex Counselors, and Sex Therapists (AASECT), American Comprehensive Energy Psychology Association (ACEP), American Counseling Association, American Family Therapy Academy, American Family Therapy Association (AFTA), American Psychological Association (APA), Connecticut Counselors, Imago Relationships International Association of Professional and Certified Therapists, International Board of Sexologists, International Institute for Sexuality and Human Development, Nonfiction Authors Association, Society Scientific Study Sexuality (SSSS), and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR).
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Overview of the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Integrative Relationship Therapy
Limitations of the research and potential risks
Defining sexual trauma and its impacts
Common psychological, emotional, and behavioural symptoms experienced by survivors
Common sexual problems experienced by survivors of sexual trauma
The IFS perspective on unwanted symptoms
The role of IFS in treating sexual trauma
Facilitating emotion regulation and identity restoration with IFS
The novel three-phase recovery process for couples following sexual trauma
Case examples and discussion
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