THIS LIVE EVENT TAKES PLACE 29–30 NOVEMBER & 1 DECEMBER 2023
There's a reason why leading experts in the mental health field use approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and parts work.
Because gentle and non-pathologising parts work provides consistent progress with clients presenting with trauma, attachment disorders, neurodiversity, dissociative identity disorder (DID), psychosis, suicidal ideation, addiction, emotional dysregulation, and much more.
Now, you can join Frank Anderson, MD, lead trainer in IFS therapy, and 18 clinical experts for a FREE 3-day live online event!
Register today to discover how to adapt their professional experiences to your own practice so you can help your clients thrive!
Frank Anderson, MD, will reveal how he uses IFS therapy in his own practice...
Jackie Burke, MAPS, ISSTD, APS, will show you how to use parts work in regulating emotions...
Sarah Mitchell, B.Psychology, examines why IFS therapy and parts work are so successful in working with Neurodivergent clients...
And many more share their clinical experiences! (See below for all the details.)
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.
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FREE ONLINE EVENT
Clinical Applications of IFS Therapy:
Integrative Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
29–30 November & 1 December 2023
$1,311.00 value
This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the event!
*CPD hours and a bonus digital seminar are available with an optional upgrade. Register for more information.
Designed for psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, mental health professionals, and allied health service providers, when you register you get access to:
- 3 days of live expert-led presentations
- The complete set of course materials
- On-demand access to the recording for 14 days
- Interactive Q&A with the experts
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER
Day One | 29 November
8:30 AM – 5:15 PM AEDT
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | To Forgive or Not to Forgive: Releasing the Pain of Emotional Trauma
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM AEDT
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)
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM AEDT
Karen Harrington reveals the importance of using 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
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AEDT
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 inside and outside.
Session 4 | Integrating IFS Therapy Perspectives and Psychosexual Therapy for the Management of Sexual Function and Dysfunction
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM AEDT
Kate Dempsey shows how parts work can be an extremely helpful therapeutic approach for addressing 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
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM AEDT
Dr Susi Fox describes how you can use parts work in Relationship Counselling. 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
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEDT
Dr Shaun Dempsey shares growing evidence in the power 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
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM AEDT
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.
Day Two | 30 November
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM AEDT
Session 1 | This is Who I Am: Supporting Non-pathologised, Self-Led Gender Diversity in Clinical IFS Therapy-focused Practice
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM AEDT
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 2 | Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Working with Parts Through the Body
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM AEDT
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 3 | Using IFS Therapy Skills with Individuals and Families Caught Within the Cycle of Addiction
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT
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 4 | IFS Therapy-informed Journal Writing: Skills to Deepen Relationships of Our Inner Parts
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEDT
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 5 | Emotion Regulation Using IFS Therapy Skills and Strategies
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM AEDT
Jackie Burke will discuss regulation from different therapeutic lenses before an in-depth exploration of how we build regulated 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 6 | Using Brainspotting and IFS Therapy Themes to Support Neurodivergent and Highly Sensitive People
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM AEDT
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.
Day Three | 1 December
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM AEDT
Session 1 | Integrating IFS Therapy Skills and Synergetic Play Therapy
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM AEDT
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 2 | Whole-School Wellbeing: An IFS Therapy-informed Paradigm
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM AEDT
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 3 | Interpersonal Neurobiology, Transference, Shame & Enactment: Making Use of IFS Therapy Perspectives
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEDT
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 4 | A Compassionate Journey with Suicidal Clients through an Internal Family Systems Therapy Lens
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEDT
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 5 | Psychosis through the Lens of IFS Therapy: A Relational Approach to Working with Non-ordinary States
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM AEDT
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 6 | Enhancing Leadership with IFS Therapy Strategies
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM AEDT
Helen Foot offers her work as both example and encouragement for anyone who is thinking about the IFS model could enhance their leadership in the workplace.
FREE ONLINE EVENT
Clinical Applications of IFS Therapy:
Integrative Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
29–30 November & 1 December 2023
$1,311.00 value
This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the event!
*CPD hours and a bonus digital seminar are available with an optional upgrade. Register for more information.
MEET YOUR EXPERTS
Keynote Speaker 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 an Accredited Psychosexual Therapist and Clinical Sexuality Educator 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 and her professional registrations include: Queensland College of Teachers, Australian Counselling Association (College of Supervisors) and Society of Australian Sexologists.
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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FREE ONLINE EVENT
Clinical Applications of IFS Therapy:
Integrative Approaches for Trauma, Attachment, Neurodiversity & More
29–30 November & 1 December 2023
$1,311.00 value
This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the event!
*CPD hours and a bonus digital seminar are available with an optional upgrade. Register for more information.