There’s a reason why leading experts in the mental health field are embracing Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and parts work…
…Because these gentle, non-pathologising approaches provide consistent progress with clients who struggle with trauma, attachment disorders, dissociative identity disorder (DID), psychosis, suicidal ideation, addiction, emotional dysregulation, and more.
Now, inside this comprehensive programme, world-renowned IFS therapy trainer Frank Anderson, MD, and 18 leading clinicians reveal practical strategies for applying parts work and IFS therapy with your most distressed clients.
Whether you’re new to IFS therapy or parts work, or have been practicing for years, you will discover how to refine and customise these approaches to fit your clients’ needs and improve therapeutic outcomes.
If you’re ready to hone your skills in this powerful therapeutic approach, get started today.
Clinical Applications
of IFS Therapy:
Integrative
Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
$1,627.19 Value
Just $249.95
Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 26 CPD
Hours included in the
course tuition | Click here for CPD details
This event is not
endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not quality
for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clinical Applications
of IFS Therapy:
Integrative
Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
$1,627.19 Value
Just $249.95
Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 26 CPD
Hours included in the
course tuition | Click here for CPD details
This event is not
endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not quality
for IFS Institute credits or certification.
MEET YOUR COURSE
EXPERTS
Frank Anderson, MD, is a
lead trainer in IFS therapy and maintains a long affiliation with, and
trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center.
Karen Harrington, MCouns., MHealSci, Certified IFS
Therapist, has a private practice and an interest in working with people with
childhood trauma and dissociative experiences.
Dr Loranie Leas, D.Psych, MAPS, has over 17
years of practice, working across community mental health, corrective services, inpatient
and outpatient hospital settings, and private practice. Her areas of special interest
include complex trauma, peri-natal mental health, parenting/families, life transition and
adjustment issues, chronic illnesses/pain management, and loss and grief issues.
Kate Dempsey MScMed (HSSH), BSc, BEd, Dip
Counselling, is a Sexologist and Relationship Counsellor in private practice,
Townsville. She is a trauma-informed sex therapist who works with adult individuals,
couples, and other relationship styles. She holds a Master of Science in Medicine (HIV,
STIs, and Sexual Health) Counselling from the University of Sydney.
Dr Susi Fox, RACGP M. Clinical Family Therapy, IFS
L2, is a mental health GP, sex and relationship therapist, and author based in
regional Victoria.
Dr Shaun Dempsey, M. Clinical Psychology, PhD
Psychology, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, Townsville, QLD.
Dr Adele Stewart, MBBS, FRACGP, has been a
GP in the Illawarra region of NSW for 30 years. She is registered to provide focussed
psychological strategies, is an IFS therapist, and an accredited, trained Mindfulness Based
Stress Reduction and Mindful Self Compassion teacher.
Dr Polly McGee, M. Counselling Psychology, PhD.
Philosophy, Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator, (they/them) is an author,
trauma-trained leadership consultant, and somatic psychotherapist. They spend their time in
organisations building trauma-informed leadership capacity and psychologically safe
cultures, speaking, leading workshops, and working in their private practice with
individuals with complex trauma using IFS therapy as a central methodology for treatment.
Sonia Milohanic, M.Couns., is a Certified
IFS Therapist and Somatic IFS Therapist in private practice in NSW, Australia. She is the
first Australian clinically trained in SIFS by its founder and Lead Trainer Susan McConnell.
Jen Nield, Masters Counselling & Family
Therapy, is a family therapist working both in the community sector and in
private practice. She is currently working in the Alcohol and Other Drug sector and
providing IFS therapy training to AOD workers.
Leona Dawson, M. Counselling & Applied
Psychotherapy, is a certified IFS psychotherapist and supervisor having trained
in all three levels of IFS therapy. She is also
a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Transpersonal Art Therapist.
Jackie Burke, MAPS, ISSTD, APS, is an
awarded researcher. Her training programs about trauma, sexual and domestic violence,
clinical supervision, trauma-informed practice, and vicarious trauma are popular nationally
and internationally.
Sarah Mitchell, B.Psychology, Marriage & Family
Therapist, works in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She works by
integrating a number of different therapeutic approaches with a foundation firmly based in
IFS therapy.
Elsha Young, Synergetic Play Therapist, Family
Therapist, L2 IFS with Children and Adolescents, is passionate about working
from a place of authenticity and vulnerability. Her focus is on building a safe, nurturing
space, where children and families can strengthen and heal their relationships with
themselves and others.
Shawnee Schmid, B.Counselling Psychology, is
Clinical Psychotherapist, L2 IFS, and a School Counsellor with a background in Domestic and
Family Violence prevention and crisis support.
Stephanie Mitchell, L3 Certified IFS
Therapist, is a psychotherapist, teacher, and consultant in private practice in
Adelaide Australia. She 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.
Katie Norwell, L3 Certified IFS Therapist,
has extensive experience working with trauma (CPTSD & PTSD) anxiety and depression, and
couples and children, particularly in rural and remote communities.
Helen Foot, M. Social Work, IFS Practitioner
– Level 2, uses Internal Family Systems therapy, together with
contemporary business models based on research, in her work with coaches, executives,
managers, consultants, and community leaders to facilitate change and transformation within
their organisations and systems.
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Clinical Applications
of IFS Therapy:
Integrative
Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
$1,627.19 Value
Just $249.95
Today - Stunning Savings!
Plus, earn up to 26 CPD
Hours included in the
course tuition | Click here for CPD details
This event is not
endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not quality
for IFS Institute credits or certification.