Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS): A Revolutionary & Transformative Treatment of PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse – and More! – Richard C. Schwartz

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• Learn the Internal Family skill-set from the Pioneering Therapist
• Take away the methods of IFS to help individuals, couples and families
• Teach clients a new way to identify with their “self”, maximize their internal “leadership” qualities and gain control over traumatic experiences

Dr. Schwartz’s presentation will provide a foundation in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) method and its use with attachment and trauma. IFS and its clinical applications will be demonstrated through a lively combination of lecture and discussion.

Developed over the past two decades, the IFS model is one of the fastest growing approaches to psychotherapy today. 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 couples and families. Take home skills and tools that you can use in your practice and improve client outcomes.

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1. Explain the IFS Model and ways to integrate IFS into your clinical practice.
2. Identify, specify and clarify the protective parts of clients with trauma histories to help with assessment and treatment planning.
3. Summarize an alternate view of symptoms and psychopathology, showing how client’s parts are trying to protect them from emotional and psychological pain.
4. Demonstrate IFS-specific grounding techniques for healing, anxiety, substance abuse and trauma.

Multiplicity & the Self

• Evolution of the IFS approach
• Multiplicity of the mind
• Stumbling on to the self

Internal Family System (IFS) with Trauma

• Protector parts and exiles
• IFS technique:
  • Honoring protectors
  • Dealing with the overwhelm
  • Witness and retrieve exiles
  • Unburden trauma memories, beliefs and emotions

Parts and Self of the Therapist
Therapist-client Relationship
Keys to Work Safely with Trauma Clients

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