The Treatment of Trauma in the Internal Family Systems Model

IFS offers a way to understand and work with clients that helps them quickly access their Self—a core of valuable leadership qualities, such as compassion, to face life challenges—and harmonize their internal family of “parts,” or sub-personalities.

In this workshop we will learn to help clients:

• Access Self
• Deal with client resistance and transference more effectively
• Repair attachment injuries
• Identify the effects of trauma and use IFS in treating trauma
• and gain an awareness of our own sub-personalities and how they impact our therapeutic work.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
This course will provide an introduction to the basics of the IFS model and its use with attachment and trauma. At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Identify the basic theory and principles of Internal Family Systems therapy
• Know how to access their clients’ Self- a core of compassion and other leadership qualities
• Deal with client “resistance” more effectively and with less effort
• Know how to utilize the clients’ Self to repair attachment injuries
• Recognize the IFS model as an internal attachment model
• Identify the parallels between external and internal attachment styles
• Identify the effects of trauma on parts and Self
• Utilize the model in treating trauma
• Gain an awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact therapy
• Apply IFS principles to transference and counter-transference

Richard Schwartz, PhD, LMFT, creator of the Internal Family Systems model, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Medicine at Harvard, and a Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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Note: This program will be offered online. Sessions of all our online programs will be recorded and shared with registrants after each is completed for 90 days.