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Digital Seminar

IFS and Polarization

Strategies to Strengthen Confidence and Trust Working with Conflicted Parts
Faculty:
Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS
Duration:
1 Hour 04 Minutes
Copyright:
19 Feb, 2026
Product Code:
POS150601
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Clients who have conflicted parts can be complicated to work with …

…every time it feels like you’re making progress with one part, another throws up a roadblock or a dead end.

You need top-notch, effective strategies for tracking and working with multiple parts, ones that can help relax extreme positions and rigidity to restore balance.

That’s why lead IFS trainer Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS created this session! She uses her extensive experience to give you core skills for working with multiple parts so you can feel confident in your treatment methods and build client trust that their inner system always makes sense, no matter how ‘at war’ the parts seem to be!

You’ll get:

  • Strategies for identifying types of polarizations
  • Tools like the “6 F’s” for working with polarized parts
  • Step-by-step guidance for getting permission to work with each part
  • And much more!
  • This is your chance to set yourself apart when it comes to using IFS to treat your clients and gain tools a lot of clinicians lack!

 

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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Faculty

Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS's Profile

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Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS is an IFS therapy expert and former IFS lead trainer with extensive experience working with clients healing from PTSD and complex trauma. She has been teaching the model to therapists for over two decades and also provides individual and group consultation to IFS clinicians. She holds an MSW from George Williams College in Aurora Illinois and an MS from DePaul University in Chicago.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elizabeth Taeubert maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Elizabeth Taeubert is a member of the National Association fo Social Workers and the Internal Family Systems Associations.

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Please Note

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


Objectives

  1. Define a polarization in IFS therapy terms.
  2. Identify three functions of a polarization.
  3. Identify 2 techniques that facilitate the client’s Self as a mediator between polarized parts or groups of parts.

Outline

Functions of a polarization

  • Definition: An adversarial relationship between parts
  • Provide balance
  • Protect exiles
  • Provide a distraction from something going on inside

Identifying a polarization

  • Therapy seems stuck
  • Ambivalence
  • Parts alternate being in control

Types of Polarizations

  • Manage/exile
  • Manager/Manager
  • Manager/Firefighter

Steps in working with polarized part

  • Name the polarization
  • Unblend both parts
  • Get permission to work with each part
  • 5 f’s
  • Switch parts
  • Point out that each part wants something good for the client
  • Check to see how they feel towards each other now
  • Ask permission to work with the exile they protect

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Nurses
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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