Internal Family Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the IFS Model – Bessel van der Kolk | Frank G. Anderson | Richard C. Schwartz

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Hailed by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score, Internal Family Systems is the go-to treatment method that all clinicians should know.

Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach rooted in neuroscience, Internal Family Systems gives you an effective, evidence-based treatment plan to help all of your clients experience deep healing.

One of the most popular and effective treatment techniques used by mental health professionals today, thousands of clinicians already trust Internal Family Systems in their work to help clients struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and other mental health conditions.

Join your peers and help change your clients’ lives today by signing up today. Upon completion, you will understand how IFS:

• Helps clients find safe ways to connect to early childhood emotions as they feel grounded in their true self
• Aligns the therapist with the innate wisdom of each and every client — cultivating compassion
• Views the multiplicity of the mind as normal; every part has a positive intention and every part has value
• Transforms negative beliefs to help clients achieve lasting change in their lives
• Offers unique, clarifying, and empowering methods to address common clinical concerns

Featuring Frank Anderson, MD, lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz, this step-by-step training makes it easy to start incorporating IFS into your practice right away!

Watch your clients transform as they:

1. Gain the skills they need to master emotions outside the therapy room and permanently heal emotional wounds
2. Explore the connection between their experiences of shame and the criticism and neglect they received from their caregivers
3. Manage their experiences of overwhelm and hyperarousal
4. Heal from trauma, depression, anxiety, psychosis, addictions, eating disorders, shame, and more
5. Use meditation to support their clinical work particularly when used within the IFS process of therapy

In addition, gain a new framework for assessment and treatment and a new way of viewing client symptoms and psychopathology. PLUS: Learn how to apply IFS with groups, children, parents, couples, LGBTQ clients, and more!

Course Outline

IFS FOUNDATIONS

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Comprehensive, compassionate, non-pathologizing treatment approach
• Paradigm-shifting perspective on “psychopathology”
• Easily integrated into other therapeutic modalities
• Teach clients to access inner wisdom and self-compassion to heal traumatic wounds

Evolution of the Model

• Development of the IFS model by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
• IFS as an empirically validated treatment: Summary of research support
• Goals of IFS therapy
• Starting an IFS session and the flow of the model

The Neuroscience of IFS

• The mind and the brain
• Neurons-networks and parts
• Meditation and self-energy
• Understanding the fear response

IFS STEP-BY-STEP

Step 1: Using Meditative Processes to Identify and Connect with a Target Part

• Differentiate the person from the symptom
• Access a state of compassion and curiosity essential for healing
• Establish a relationship with the target part
• Learn the history and benevolent intention behind the symptom

Step 2: Working with Protective Parts

• Facilitate internal attachment work
• Learn to address the fears/concerns of protective parts
• Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
• Resolve internal conflicts
• Gain permission to proceed with healing

Step 3: Healing the Wound

• Connect with the wounded part
• Witness the pain rather than relive it
• Retrieve the wounded part
• Release/unburden thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations
• Life without the wound, the post-healing process

Get Internal Family Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the IFS Model – Bessel van der Kolk | Frank G. Anderson | Richard C. Schwartz, Only Price $67

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF IFS

Therapist Parts

• Countertransference redefined
• Identifying parts that get in the way
• The Science of extreme reactions in therapists and clients

Trauma and Attachment

• Roadblocks to healing trauma
• Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation
• Dealing with the extreme symptoms and staying in Self
• Healing attachment wounds: What IFS offers

Depression and Anxiety

• Differentiating feelings from symptoms
• Address the biology and process the wound
• Protection or genetics

Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder

• Addressing psychotic parts
• Differentiating psychosis from trauma dysregulation
• Treating biological issues while addressing emotional pain

Substances and Addictions

• Befriending addictive parts
• Healing wounds or stopping use?
• Addressing the biology and the behavior after healing

Eating Disorders

• When food “abstinence” is not an option
• Multiple eating parts
• Self-led eating

Shame and Grief

• The shamer and the shamed
• Critical and neglect shame cycles
• Loss, letting go, and healing

IFS With Specific Client Populations

• Children and adolescents
• Parenting
• Couples
• Groups and inpatient settings
• LGBTQ
• Spirituality and culture

When you register today, you’ll also get these FREE bonuses!

Bonus 1:

The Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual eBook 

With Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Martha Sweezy, PhD, & Frank G. Anderson, MD

Easy to read and highly practical, this book is co-written by the founder of IFS and other experts in the field — giving you the answers you need to help your clients remove roadblocks and achieve healing and transformation. The 137-page manual offers you straight-forward explanations that will you help you master IFS, including:

• Step-by-step techniques
• Annotated case examples
• Unique meditations
• Downloadable exercises, worksheets

Bonus 2: 

Bessel van der Kolk Trauma Interview Series: Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., Developer and Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

In this interview, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk talks with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., developer and founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Listen to Dr. Schwartz’s discovery of IFS through his work with families and the roles that individuals play in a family system. Within an individual, these same roles exist as parts – all of which serve important and purposeful functions. Drs. van der Kolk and Schwartz identify each part and the role they play, illustrate the relationships between them, and stress the importance of honoring and welcoming all parts in helping clients.

Through role play, you will observe how Dr. Schwartz uses IFS in therapy. Find tips, tricks, and resources that you can use to begin your journey using this treatment modality for your traumatized clients.