Part 1: Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety and Grief: Clinical Tools to Connect Clients to their Parts for Deeper Healing

This intensive training packs an entire IFS therapy toolkit into one immersive, hands-on experience! You’ll learn transformative techniques that go beyond surface-level symptom management and temporary fixes…giving you powerful tools to turn the inner conflicts, disconnection, and self-criticism you see in almost every single client into inner acceptance, self-love, and internal harmony.

Part 2: Strategies for Integrating IFS Therapy into Your Practice

Integrating IFS Therapy and Polyvagal Theory: Techniques for Anchoring Clients in Embodied Safety and Co-regulation Strategies

Our autonomic nervous systems and our protective parts share a common goal: to keep us safe. In this workshop led by expert Dr. Alexia Rothman, you’ll explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Polyvagal theory can work together to help clients and therapists stay anchored in embodied safety as therapeutic work deepens. You’ll get:

• IFS therapy techniques to partner with clients’ protectors around safety and regulation
• Strategies for anchoring clients in states of regulation as vulnerable material emerges
• Co-regulation and healing practices using your own embodied Self-presence
• Guided reflection and video demonstrations of polyvagal-informed IFS therapy

Integrating EMDR and IFS: Strategies for a Combined Approach to Trauma Treatment

EMDR and IFS are two of today’s most popular evidence-based treatment methods for trauma…But if you’re running into roadblocks with your clients, just one method might not be enough. That’s why EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. put together this groundbreaking session that shows you how easy it can be to combine the similar principles of EMDR and IFS and how to combine techniques from both of them to more effectively treat trauma and help your clients heal.

IFS and Polarization: Strategies to Strengthen Confidence and Trust Working with Conflicted Parts

Clients who have conflicted parts can be complicated to work with…every time it feels like you’re making progress with one part, another throws up a roadblock or a dead end. You need top-notch, effective strategies for tracking and working with multiple parts, ones that can help relax extreme positions and rigidity to restore balance. That’s why lead IFS trainer Elizabeth Taeubert, LCSW, RN, MS created this session! She uses her extensive experience to give you core skills for working with multiple parts so you can feel confident in your treatment methods and build client trust that their inner system always makes sense, no matter how ‘at war’ the parts seem to be!

IFS Techniques for Infidelity: Guiding Clients through Disclosure, Empathy, and Grief to Co-Create a New Relationship

The discovery of betrayal leaves couples trapped, stuck with feelings of rage, shame and grief that block the process of healing…and standard approaches often overlook the depth of trauma and inner complexity of each partner’s response. That’s why sought after speaker and course developer Wayne Baker, LPC, used his over two decades of experience with infidelity recovery and betrayal trauma to develop this powerful workshop. Using an IFS approach grounded in the five pillars of healing, Wayne focuses on the three areas where most couples encounter difficulties on their healing journey: disclosure, empathy, and grief – and where you can have the most impact!

Tending the Roots: Healing Intergenerational Wounds in Communities of Color Through IFS

When it comes to trauma treatment, often overlooked is the impact our own internalized legacies of colonialism and racial conditioning have on the therapeutic relationship, along with how systemic oppression and racial trauma manifest in people of color. That’s why Natalie Gutiérrez, LMFT put together this session to give you:

• Strategies for building Self-to-Part relationships that honor cultural identity
• IFS therapy-informed approaches that promote safety, trust and cultural humility
• Integration techniques that combine IFS therapy with decolonial and community-based healing

Complex Trauma & Dissociation: An IFS Framework for Navigating Fragmentation, Dissociative Parts, and Protective Systems

It’s tough to know where to start when it comes to treating traumatized, dissociative clients. You need a transformative framework that can help unblend traumatized parts and utilize tools like self-energy and compassionate attunement to help clients safely heal from complex trauma. That’s why internationally recognized trainer, Stacy Ruse, LPC, E-RYT-500, developed this experiential workshop! She’ll guide you through practical tools and techniques that will leave you feeling empowered to help even your most deeply traumatized clients.

Somatic IFS: Tools for Integrating Body-Based Practices into the IFS Model

Somatic IFS invites the body into every step of the IFS model, with embodied Self energy fostering deeper connection to parts and healing of burdens held in the body. By integrating five embodiment practices into the IFS model – somatic awareness, conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement, and attuned touch – therapists gain practical tools to help clients relate to protectors and exiles through the body, restoring safety, connection, and flow from the inside out. Participants will leave this experiential workshop with skills to access their own embodied Self energy, enhance therapeutic presence, and support clients in restoring safety, trust, and connection from the inside out.

Self-Led Sexuality through IFS Therapy: A Parts Work Approach for Healing, Intimacy, Pleasure and Connection

There are few issues that trigger our parts more than sex. When you work with clients who struggle with sexual issues, they’re often dealing with shame, guilt, confusion, and a lack of understanding about their own experiences. But sex and sexuality are huge parts of your clients’ lives…and you need to be able to address them in their treatment. In this session you will gain:

• Strategies to address common sexual concerns clients have in therapy
• An IFS therapy-based conceptual framework that incorporates insights from the field of sex therapy and more
• A better understanding of the internal sexual system and what it means to be sexually Self-Led
• Guided meditation tools for finding and unblending parts related to a sexual trailhead

Treating Neurodivergent Trauma: Integrating IFS and Neuroaffirming Practices to Support Healing

Your neurodivergent clients already come to therapy feeling attacked internally and externally, as if they are the problem to be fixed. You need skills tailored specifically to addressing “neurodivergent trauma” – the complex trauma uniquely faced by neurodivergent individuals. That’s why licensed psychologist Dr. Tasha Oswald (she/her), who is a neurodivergent individual herself, put together this experiential training! You’ll get:

• Neuroaffirming practices to help clients unburden and heal from neurodivergent trauma
• Techniques for cultivating inner balance
• Self-reflection exercises for exploring your own neuronormative biases and privilege
• Strategies to help clients deal with “inner critics”

The Healing Power of Play: Integrating IFS and Play Therapy for Children and Adolescents

When it comes to IFS and working with children, often times clinicians have trouble getting standard treatment methods to work. You need integrated, developmentally appropriate interventions that can enhance young clients’ self-awareness, emotional regulation, and ability to identify and engage with their parts. Join Leslie Petruk, LCMHC-S, NCC, BCC as she gives you the best of what IFS and Play therapy have to offer, all in one package! You’ll leave with:

• Specific activities and applications to use with children and adolescents
• Tools for translating common comorbidities into parts language
• Techniques to broaden treatment options through play therapy