WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER INSIDE THIS COURSE
Session 1 | To Forgive or Not to Forgive: Releasing the Pain of Emotional Trauma
Frank Anderson explores different dimensions of forgiveness: When it's premature and when it’s forced, when it's used to avoid feelings of pain and betrayal, whether it's necessary to fully heal from abuse, whether it serves the victim or the perpetrator, and when it leads to true acceptance and freedom.
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Session 2 | IFS Skills for Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Karen Harrington reveals how to apply a trauma-informed IFS therapy approach when working with clients with Complex PTSD and dissociative disorders to prevent worsening clients’ symptoms.
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Session 3 | Applying an IFS Therapy Lens to Attachment Strategies: Connecting Clients to Themselves and Others
Dr Loranie Leas reveals how viewing attachment strategies developed in childhood through the lens of IFS therapy offers insight into how we connect to ourselves and to others. Using attachment theory and IFS theories together can help clients create more secure relationships with themselves and others.
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Session 4 | Integrating IFS Therapy Perspectives and Psychosexual Therapy for the Management of Sexual Function and Dysfunction
Kate Dempsey shows how you can use parts work to address a wide range of sexual issues, which can present as feelings of shame, pain, disgust, fear, or negative body image.
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Session 5 | IFS Therapy-informed Relationship Counselling: The Intimate Relationship as a Container for Healing
Dr Susi Fox walks you through how to use parts work in Relationship Counselling, based on the models created by Richard Schwartz and Toni Herbine-Blank. You’ll gain skills you can use in your daily life to enhance relational connections in both personal and professional relationships.
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Session 6 | Adapting IFS Therapy Strategies in Group Settings: Therapy, Supervision & Consultation
Dr Shaun Dempsey shares growing evidence in the power of applying IFS therapy strategies to clients in group therapy and for clinicians in group supervision and group consultation. Discover the benefits that can be obtained in group therapy that simply cannot be obtained in the individual space.
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Session 7 | Pain Management Utilising IFS Therapy Interventions: The Connection Between Pain and the Mind
Dr Adele Stewart provides a new way of conceptualising pain so you can confidently use IFS interventions to offer your clients better pain management in your therapy practice. Case studies will support concepts such as the relationship between tissue damage and pain, pain as a protective buffer, and the critical interconnection between safety, danger, fear, and pain.
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Session 8 | This is Who I Am: Supporting Non-pathologised, Self-Led Gender Diversity in Clinical IFS Therapy-focused Practice
Dr Polly McGee looks at how parts work can support clients to work with the burdens and conflicts of their truths while growing up with dominant gender norms. Discover how to use IFS approaches to safely, inclusively, and therapeutically support all parts of gender-diverse clients and their families.
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Session 9 | Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Working with Parts Through the Body
Sonia Milohanic discusses how Somatic IFS therapy practices provide a map into the sensory richness of the ‘bodymind’. This tool can help IFS therapy and parts work therapists include the body’s stories and support clients beyond survival towards greater wholeness and aliveness.
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Session 10 | Using IFS Therapy Skills with Individuals and Families Caught Within the Cycle of Addiction
Jen Nield reveals how traditional approaches to addiction focus on ceasing the use of substances or actions driving the addictive process. And IFS therapy recognises that the parts engaged with the addictive process have positive intent. So, rather than eliminating them, we seek to assist them to find preferred ways of doing their job.
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Session 11 | IFS Therapy-informed Journal Writing: Skills to Deepen Relationships of Our Inner Parts
Leona Dawson bases this introduction to the art of IFS therapy-oriented journal writing on the 200+ research studies reporting that therapeutic journaling can improve people’s physical and emotional health. Discover how you can use it in your practice, and how your clients can use this process to stay connected with parts between sessions.
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Session 12 | Emotion Regulation Using IFS Therapy Skills and Strategies
Jackie Burke will discuss regulation from different therapeutic lenses before an in-depth exploration of how you can build regulation capacity using an IFS therapy approach. You’ll develop the skills and confidence to help your clients face the internal experiences they most avidly avoid in a way that is both effective and easy.
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Session 13 | Using Brainspotting and IFS Therapy Themes to Support Neurodivergent and Highly Sensitive People
Sarah Mitchell introduces clinicians to a unique way of supporting Autistic, neurodivergent (ND), and highly sensitive (HS) clients’ systems to help them process and heal within the IFS therapy framework. Explore the role of the visual field in memory, and how it can be used to externalise and map parts in a powerful and engaging way.
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Session 14 | Integrating IFS Therapy Skills and Synergetic Play Therapy
Elsha Young will explore how IFS therapy skills and Synergetic Play Therapy can complement one another in child and family therapy. Discover therapies to help children understand and befriend their parts, how to establish client safety and rapport, and create a therapeutic relationship and environment where all parts are welcome.
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Session 15 | Whole-School Wellbeing: an IFS Therapy-informed paradigm
Shawnee Schmid provides examples of worksheets, expressive art methods, and a composite case study to illustrate the healing potential for promoting whole-school wellbeing from the inside out. Discover new perspectives in your work with children and young people.
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Session 16 | Interpersonal Neurobiology, Transference, Shame & Enactment: Making Use of IFS Therapy Perspectives
Stephanie Mitchell shows you how to apply IFS therapy theoretical perspectives with clients who have experienced early developmental and relational trauma and who use transference, projection, and enactment as a path to healing. Discover the current research on Interpersonal Neurobiology, shame, and relational psychotherapy and how these relate to our work as therapists and practitioners.
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Session 17 | A Compassionate Journey with Suicidal Clients through an Internal Family Systems Therapy Lens
Katie Norwell discusses how to use IFS therapy principles to navigate suicidal ideation with empathy and understanding. Uncover positive intentions behind suicidal thoughts, fostering healing and growth. And discover how to create a safe, nurturing space for all parts of a clients' psyche.
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Session 18 | Psychosis through the Lens of IFS Therapy: A Relational Approach to Working with Non-ordinary States
Stephanie Mitchell reveals how to view psychosis through an IFS therapy lens. Through a mixture of didactic and experiential learning, you’ll gain an understanding of how to work with clients who experience voices, visions, and other alternative experiences.
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Session 19 | Enhancing Leadership with IFS Therapy Strategies
Helen Foot offers her work as both example and encouragement for anyone who is thinking about how IFS therapy strategies and perspectives could enhance their leadership in the workplace, with real-life examples.
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