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In this workshop participants will gain an overview of nuanced and attuned ways of working within the IFS Model, with clients who use transference and enactment as part of their healing process. We will explore ways of staying in “right brain to right brain” connection with our clients even in difficult moments.
We will briefly review the current research on Interpersonal Neurobiology, shame and relational psychotherapy and gain an understanding of how these relate to our work as IFS therapists and practitioners.
Through a mixture of didactic and interactive learning, participants will gain an understanding of how to work within the IFS framework with clients who have experienced early developmental and relational trauma and who use transference, projection, and enactment as a path to healing.
Participants will also be invited to recognize the parts of themselves that are activated by our client-teachers and learn to make use of this activation to deepen our connection to our parts and the parts of our clients, to bring more Self-energy, and co-create a rich relational healing environment.
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 1.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interpersonal Neurobiology, Transference, Shame and Enactment (0.66 MB) | 34 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Stephanie Mitchell is a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist, psychotherapist, teacher, and consultant in private practice in Adelaide Australia. She specialises in working with complex trauma and experiences which often get labelled as “mental illness”.
Stephanie is interested in how healing and change occur in the human-to-human relationship, within spaces of safety and acceptance and outside the constructs of diagnostic labels .
Stephanie works from a deeply compassionate place that believes that all patterns of behaviour, thought or feeling come with important and valuable, hidden meanings, and that as the client and therapist work together to listen to the parts who hold these important and previously unknown meanings and offer them a space to be heard, witnessed, and deeply understood, that deep change and inner transformation is stirred up.
Stephanie’s initial training included 3 years of advanced studies in transactional analysis, and she has since trained in open dialogue, family systems therapy, person centred therapy and Yalom group psychotherapy, before moving over to working exclusively with Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. Stephanie is trained to Level 3 in the IFS Model and has undertaken extensive supervision, additional training, and person work within the IFS model.
Believing that a therapist can only take a client as far as they themselves have travelled, Stephanie has undertaken her own long journey of healing from significant childhood trauma over many years of psychotherapy and human loving.
Stephanie has over 500 hours of her own personal therapy with an IFS Practitioner and is deeply acquainted with her own parts, embodying the IFS model from the inside out.
Stephanie is also a passionate advocate and activist for social and systems change towards non-pathologising and compassionate approaches to mental distress and is involved at national and international levels around mental health reform.
Stephanie is excited to be collaborating with Professor Ian Whitmarsh and Professor Sharon Lawn around an international research study on the IFS model and Psychosis.
Speaker Disclosures:
Gain an understanding of Transference and Countertransference as it is understood within the IFS Model
Learn how the therapist’s Self energy is used as a resource for co-regulation with these clients.
Understand what it means for the therapist to be “the Self to the client’s system” in the early stages of the work.
Gain understandings for how transferential enactments help the client to navigate their healing and the shame sequelae that surrounds these projections.
Build skills to approach these enactments with curiosity, compassion, and courage.
Understand what it means to listen to “what is underneath what is being” said when clients are in the middle of a transferential enactment.
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