Trauma and the Internal Family Systems Model: Releasing Personal and Legacy Burdens

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Presenter

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD.

Location

Location: Live on Zoom, this event will not be recorded.
 

Schedule

Dates: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 & Thursday, April 27, 2023

Times: 10am-5:30pm EST (Find the time for your location)

Individual Registration: Regular Rate—$375; Early Bird Rate: $350

Early Registration Deadline: January 31, 2023

NEAFAST Member Rate: $330

Black Therapists Rock, National Association of Black Counselors and all BIPOC clinicians may access an equity rate of $280.

Please contact Therapy Training Boston for discount codes. No application is required.

12 CEs will be available at an additional cost of $40 paid upon registration for social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage & family therapists. 12 CEs for IFS Certification will be available at no fee for those who are IFS Certified professionals.

This presentation will provide a brief review of the basics of the IFS model by Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the model, then will focus in detail on its use with attachment injuries and trauma related presenting problems. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy certified as an evidence-based practice by SAMHSA. IFS offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in individuals, couples, and families. The model posits that people have a core Self that is unharmed by traumatic events. The path to healing in the IFS model is to facilitate a process that releases constraints to people living a life that is led by their core Self rather than from aspects of themselves, called parts, that act from reactive and defensive stances, causing further problems in an effort to help or protect.

 

Participants will learn how to:

  • Deal with client “resistance” more effectively and with less effort
  • Utilize the clients’ Self to repair attachment injuries
  • Recognize the IFS model as an internal attachment model
  • Identify the effects of trauma on parts and Self
  • Have a sense of how to utilize the model in treating trauma
  • Gain some awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact treatment
  • Explore the sources of burdens and fears
  • Identify strategies for releasing burdens and fears

 

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