Join Dr. Frank Anderson and Dr. Diane Poole Heller LIVE!
The IFS Clinician’s Guide
Restoring Self, Healing Trauma and Deepening Therapy
Discover how Internal Family Systems (IFS) provides a powerful, evidence-based framework for helping trauma survivors move beyond coping and into deep lasting healing.
- Five 90-minute LIVE training sessions
- Real client demonstrations with Dr. Frank Anderson
- Includes 6 CE credits for eligible professionals!
Our first session starts on April 15, 2025
A step-by-step roadmap for using Internal Family Systems (IFS) to heal trauma at the deepest level
A client’s trauma is never just a story from their past.
Even when clients develop deep insight into their trauma—when they can name their triggers, understand their past, and intellectually “know” why they feel the way they do—something inside them still resists change.
They remain stuck in patterns they can’t break, caught in self-protective cycles that override their efforts to heal.
That’s because trauma is not just a memory—it’s a system.
It fragments the internal world, creating protective parts that try to prevent future harm, even at the cost of well-being.
Traditional therapy often focuses on symptom management, teaching clients to regulate distress without addressing the protective mechanisms keeping them stuck.
IFS provides a different path.
Rather than working against these protective parts, IFS helps clients engage with them, understand their roles, and unburden them in a safe and lasting way.
This course will show you exactly how to integrate IFS into your work, so you can help clients move beyond coping into true healing.
Why Choose This Course Over Others?
Go Beyond Symptom Management
Learn a Proven Framework for Deep, Lasting Healing
Most trauma courses focus on managing symptoms—offering mindfulness exercises, regulation techniques, or somatic practices. While valuable, these approaches often fail to address the real reason clients stay stuck: their protective parts. Without working with these internal barriers, healing remains surface-level, and clients continue to struggle.
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A Practical, Hands-On Approach to IFS
Many IFS trainings cover theory but don’t show you how to apply it in real therapy. Dr. Frank Anderson bridges that gap with structured interventions, live demonstrations, and case-based learning. You’ll see IFS in action and learn exactly how to guide clients toward lasting healing.
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Learn From a Leading Expert in Trauma & IFS
Dr. Anderson is an IFS Lead Trainer, psychiatrist, and trauma expert. He combines neuroscience, psychotherapy, and IFS to make complex concepts clear and actionable. His teaching is practical, real-world focused, and backed by decades of clinical experience.
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A Comprehensive, Clinician-Focused Program
This live, interactive training goes beyond theory, offering structured guidance for therapists looking to apply IFS in real-world practice. Over five sessions, you’ll learn to recognize and engage protective parts without resistance, help clients access Self-energy for deeper healing, and integrate IFS seamlessly into your existing approach.
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Real-World Application—Not Just Theory
IFS is a powerful tool, not just a concept. In this course, you’ll watch Dr. Anderson demonstrate techniques with real clients, practice guided exercises, and get structured resources to make IFS easy to apply—even if you’re new to parts work.
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A Supportive Learning Experience
This course is designed for engaged, interactive learning. You’ll get live Q&A, guided discussions, and lifetime access to materials—so you can revisit and refine your skills whenever you need.
—All-New Online Training Now Open—
The IFS Clinician’s Guide
Restoring Self, Healing Trauma
and Deepening Therapy
A 5-Session LIVE Course that begins April 15, 2025
A step-by-step roadmap for using Internal Family Systems (IFS) to heal trauma at the deepest level
What You Get For Only $347…
Five 90-minute LIVE, Demo-Based, Interactive Training Sessions
Led by Dr. Frank Anderson, this training provides a structured, hands-on learning experience designed to help you integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) into your practice with confidence. Each session includes expert teaching, real client demonstrations, and guided experiential exercises to deepen your understanding.
Join Us LIVE for Practical Teaching and Real-World Application
IFS is more than a theory—it’s a transformational approach to working with trauma. That’s why this course goes beyond concepts and brings IFS to life through case-based learning and live demonstrations. You’ll see how IFS techniques work in real therapy sessions, giving you a clear roadmap for using this model with your clients.
Each 90-minute Session Includes Core Teaching, Real Client Demos and Step-by-Step Guidance
Dr. Anderson will break down IFS interventions in a way that’s easy to understand and apply, offering structured guidance on working with protective parts, accessing Self-energy, and helping clients unburden trauma. These sessions will provide a balance of foundational learning and hands-on application, so you leave with actionable tools.
Includes Live Q&A with Dr. Frank Anderson
At the end of each session, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, clarify concepts, and receive direct guidance from one of the leading voices in trauma therapy. Whether you’re new to IFS or refining your skills, this interactive component ensures you gain the clarity and insight needed to apply IFS effectively in your practice.
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Session 1: Meeting the Parts: The Core of IFS and Healing Trauma
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Session 2: Protection to Connection: IFS Work with Anxiety and Depression
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Session 3: Healing the Nervous System: How IFS and Neurobiology Work Together to Treat Trauma
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Session 4: Healing Attachment Wounds: How IFS Supports Secure Connection
- Session 5: Healing the Family System: Using IFS to Support Children and Parents
See Exactly How It’s Done (With Real Clients)
Join Dr. Frank Anderson for five LIVE, 90-minute sessions featuring expert teaching, real client demonstrations, and guided step-by-step debriefs. You’ll see firsthand how IFS techniques work in real therapeutic settings, giving you practical tools you can apply in your sessions.
Participate live or watch the recordings on your own time. Learn techniques and interventions that will help you confidently guide your clients toward deep lasting healing.
Learn Practical Clinical Skills, Tool & Somatic Techniques
Broaden your skills and gain new insights into using Internal Family Systems (IFS) in trauma therapy. This course provides hands-on learning, real-world case applications, and structured interventions you can begin using immediately.
Join a supportive online learning environment where both new and experienced practitioners can connect, share insights, and explore innovative ways to integrate IFS into trauma treatment.
Lifetime Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts & Bonuses
Every live session is recorded and available in video, audio, and transcript format, so you can download and revisit the material anytime.
Miss a session or want to review a demo? No problem.
With lifetime access, you can return to any lesson at your convenience, ensuring you always have a resource to support your clinical practice.
Here’s what You’ll Learn in Each Live Session
Led by Dr. Frank Anderson and your host, Dr. Diane Poole Heller
All LIVE sessions meet online for 90 minutes (dates and times listed below)
SESSION 1: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 @ 11 am MT
Meeting the Parts: The Core of IFS and Healing Trauma
Trauma fragments our internal world, creating protective parts that work tirelessly to keep us safe. But these parts, while well-intentioned, often block the path to true healing.
In this foundational session, Dr. Frank Anderson will introduce the core framework of Internal Family Systems (IFS), exploring how parts form in response to trauma and why Self-energy is the key to healing. You’ll gain a clear understanding of how IFS helps clients build a relationship with their parts instead of suppressing or fighting them.
By the end of this session, you will:
- Identify the three main types of parts—Preventative Parts, Extreme Parts, and Wounded Parts—and understand their roles in trauma responses.
- Learn how to recognize Self-energy and why it is the most essential healing force in IFS.
- Develop strategies for engaging protective parts without triggering resistance or retraumatization.
- Observe a live demonstration of guiding an individual through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) process to engage with their inner experience.
Dr. Anderson will walk you through real-world applications of IFS, showing exactly how to introduce clients to their internal system in a safe and structured way.
This session sets the foundation for the entire course, giving you a clear roadmap for integrating IFS into your practice and helping clients begin their journey toward true inner healing.
SESSION 2: Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 11 am MT
Protection to Connection: IFS Work with Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are not just conditions—they are the voices of burdened parts that have been working overtime to protect us from pain. When therapists only focus on symptom management, these parts remain unheard, continuing their cycle of distress.
This session will explore how anxiety often manifests as hypervigilant, overactive protector parts, while depression arises from shutdown parts that have lost hope. Using the IFS framework, Dr. Frank Anderson will demonstrate how to help clients unburden these parts and restore inner balance.
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Identify how protective parts express themselves as anxiety and depression.
- Use IFS interventions to unburden parts without pushing past their defenses.
- Help clients reconnect with their Self-energy to shift from coping to true healing.
- Observe a live IFS session demonstrating how to work with anxious or withdrawn parts.
Dr. Anderson will provide clear, practical tools that you can immediately apply in therapy to help clients break free from the cycles of anxiety and depression—not by suppressing symptoms, but by addressing the protective system that keeps them in place.
SESSION 3: Monday, April 21, 2025 @ 11 am MT
Healing the Nervous System: How IFS and Neurobiology Work Together to Treat Trauma
Trauma doesn’t just affect thoughts and emotions—it profoundly impacts the nervous system.
Dysregulation can show up as hyperarousal (panic, overwhelm) or hypoarousal (numbness, dissociation), making it difficult for clients to access their Self-energy and move toward healing.
In this session, Dr. Frank Anderson will bridge the gap between IFS and neurobiology, demonstrating how parts develop physiological responses to trauma and how IFS can support nervous system regulation.
By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand how trauma imprints itself on the nervous system and internal parts.
- Recognize the different ways trauma manifests in clients—through hyperactivation or shutdown responses.
- Learn IFS techniques to help clients regulate their nervous system through Self-energy.
- Engage in a discussion on working with body-based trauma and integrating somatic approaches.
This session includes a live demonstration of an IFS intervention designed to support nervous system regulation, giving you firsthand insight into how to work with dysregulated parts and help clients rebuild
a sense of safety.
SESSION 4: Thursday, April 24, 2025 @ 11 am MT
Healing Attachment Wounds: How IFS Supports Secure Connection
Attachment wounds don’t just disappear—they shape how we relate to ourselves and others for a lifetime. Clients with early relational trauma often develop protective patterns that block vulnerability and create relational difficulties.
In this session, Dr. Frank Anderson will show how IFS can repair attachment wounds by working directly with the parts that formed in response to relational trauma. You’ll also explore how your own parts may be activated in the therapeutic process and how to maintain Self-energy when working with deeply wounded clients.
Key takeaways from this session:
- Learn how attachment injuries shape protective parts and impact adult relationships.
- Explore how IFS helps clients create secure internal attachment by fostering Self-energy.
- Develop skills for recognizing and working with parts that resist connection due to past relational trauma.
- Engage in a discussion on therapist parts—how to recognize when your own system is activated and maintain therapeutic presence.
This session will provide practical interventions for helping clients rebuild trust, deepen connection, and access Self-energy to create more fulfilling relationships.
SESSION 5: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 @ 11 am MT
Healing the Family System: Using IFS to Support Children and Parents
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation—family systems mirror the internal systems of each member. If one person is burdened by trauma, the entire family dynamic can be shaped by protectors working to maintain safety, sometimes at the expense of true connection.
In this final session, Dr. Frank Anderson will demonstrate how IFS can be applied in family therapy, helping both children and parents recognize and work with their protective parts to foster healthier relationships.
By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand how parts influence family dynamics and create generational trauma patterns.
- Learn how to help parents recognize and shift their own protective responses in parenting.
- Develop strategies for using IFS to facilitate secure attachment within family relationships.
- Observe a live demonstration on working with parents and children using IFS.
This closing session will bring together everything you’ve learned, helping you integrate IFS into a systemic approach that fosters healing within individuals and their families.
Join our learning community––and learn how to apply new skills, strategies, and exercises to your personal and professional life.
Enrollment is now open until April 14, 2025
PLUS you’ll also get these Special Bonus Resources!
BONUS #1
Introduction to IFS – Pre-Recorded Training with Dr. Frank Anderson
Get a head start with this 60-minute foundational training, where Dr. Frank Anderson walks you through the basics of Internal Family Systems (IFS). You’ll gain a clear understanding of self, parts, and how they interact—so you can dive into the live sessions fully prepared.
BONUS #2
The IFS Glossary – Key Terms & Concepts at Your Fingertips
Confused by IFS terminology? This quick-reference guide breaks down essential concepts, making it easier to integrate IFS language into your sessions and explain parts work to clients.
BONUS #3
The IFS & Attachment Reference Guide
Explore how attachment styles influence protective parts and how to use IFS to support secure connection. This clinician-friendly resource helps you recognize patterns in your clients and tailor interventions for deeper relational healing.
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the The IFS Clinician’s Guide: Restoring Self, Healing Trauma, and Deepening Therapy course 100% risk-free.
If you don’t feel this training meets your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 5 days of the first class––on or before Sunday, April 20, 2025––for a full refund, no questions asked.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Who Should Join Us?
Watch the Experts Work—Then Do It Yourself
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Therapists, Counselors and Mental Health Professionals:
Expand your therapeutic toolkit with IFS, an evidence-based framework for working with trauma, attachment wounds, and nervous system dysregulation. Learn how to guide clients beyond coping strategies into deep, lasting healing.
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Social Workers and Trauma-Informed Coaches:
Gain practical tools to help individuals struggling with self-sabotaging behaviors, emotional dysregulation, and unresolved trauma. Learn how to help clients access their Self-energy to foster resilience and inner harmony.
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Psychologists and Psychiatrists:
Integrate IFS into your existing modalities to support clients dealing with PTSD, complex trauma, and dissociation. Learn how to work with protective parts without reinforcing resistance or retraumatization.
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Somatic Practitioners, Bodyworkers and Yoga Therapists:
Understand the connection between trauma, nervous system regulation, and body-based healing. Learn how IFS can complement your practice by addressing the emotional components of stored trauma.
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Educators, Advocates and Caregivers:
Gain insight into how trauma shapes behavior and relationships. Whether you work in schools, social services, or caregiving, IFS can help you foster emotional safety and resilience in the individuals you support.
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Individuals on a Personal Healing Journey:
Gain the tools to heal your inner world and transform your life. IFS helps you access the Self-energy that brings clarity, peace, and empowerment, and supports your journey toward healing and wholeness.
Meet Your Instructors
True healing begins when we stop fighting our pain and start listening to the parts of us that carry it.
Dr. Frank Anderson is a renowned psychiatrist, trauma expert, and IFS trainer with over three decades of experience integrating neuroscience, psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. A former instructor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Anderson has dedicated his career to making trauma therapy more effective, accessible, and actionable for clinicians.
- Lead Trainer for Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
- Author of Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems
- International Speaker & Educator on Trauma Healing
- Featured in 60 Minutes, The New York Times, NPR, and Psychotherapy Networker
His work combines cutting-edge, brain-based psychotherapy with a deep, compassionate understanding of trauma healing, making complex mental health issues more accessible for both therapists and clients.
Our goal is to uncover secure attachment, allowing it to prevail over relational trauma or attachment disruptions—or to help us recover more quickly from distress.
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Real Client Sessions Show You Exactly How It’s Done!
Led by Dr. Frank Anderson, IFS Lead Trainer & Trauma Expert
and your host, Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Here’s what’s included…
The IFS Clinician’s Guide
Restoring Self, Healing Trauma, and Deepening Therapy
A 5-Session LIVE Course begins on April 15, 2025
Learn to apply Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques to help clients navigate trauma, integrate protective parts, and heal at the deepest level.
Over 7 hours of LIVE training +6 CE Credits! Now just $347!
Five LIVE 90-minute Interactive Training Sessions with Dr. Frank Anderson and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Join Dr. Anderson and Dr. Heller for five 90-minute live online sessions, where you’ll receive core teaching, real client demonstrations, guided practice exercises, corrective techniques, and a dedicated Q&A session where you can get your most pressing questions answered.
Participate live or watch the replay on your own time. Whether you attend in real time or review the sessions later, you’ll gain practical, step-by-step guidance on applying IFS techniques in your clinical work.
Interactive Learning:
Real Client Demonstrations + Debriefs
Watch as Dr. Anderson demonstrates IFS techniques in real client sessions—pausing throughout to explain key concepts, interventions, and corrective strategies. You’ll see exactly how to facilitate healing, work with protective parts, and guide clients toward unburdening trauma.
Each comprehensive debrief will help you understand how to integrate IFS into your practice, making it easier to apply what you’ve learned with confidence.
Network with colleagues, ask questions and receive support in our course portal.
Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts + Additional Bonuses and Resources
Every live training will be recorded. You’ll have 24/7 access to replays in video, audio, and transcript formats, so you can review key lessons whenever needed.
Miss a session? Need to revisit a demo? No problem. Your course materials will always be available for reference, note-taking, and skill development at your convenience.
Plus, you’ll get exclusive complementary resources, worksheets, and clinical reference guides to help you integrate IFS techniques with ease.
PLUS you’ll also get these SPECIAL COURSE BONUSES!
BONUS #1: IFS – Pre-Recorded Training
Jumpstart your learning with this 60-minute foundational training, where Dr. Frank Anderson introduces the core principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS).
You’ll gain a clear understanding of Self, parts, and their roles in trauma healing, so you can enter the live sessions with confidence.
BONUS #2: The IFS Glossary – Key Terms & Concepts at Your Fingertips
IFS has a unique language and this quick-reference guide makes it easy to understand and apply.
Whether you’re new to IFS or looking for a handy tool to use in sessions, this glossary breaks down key concepts, part categories, and self-energy principles—so you can confidently introduce IFS to your clients.
BONUS #3 The IFS & Attachment Reference Guide
IFS and attachment go hand in hand. This clinician-friendly resource explores how attachment styles shape protective parts and how IFS can help clients heal early relational wounds. You’ll get practical strategies for integrating IFS into attachment-focused therapy to help clients foster more secure relationships.
This is the ONLY time this course will be offered LIVE.
Be sure to save your spot today…
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the The IFS Clinician’s Guide: Restoring Self, Healing Trauma, and Deepening Therapy course 100% risk-free.
If you don’t feel this training meets your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 5 days of the first class––on or before Sunday, April 20, 2025––for a full refund, no questions asked.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can we help you?
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for clinicians, therapists, and mental health professionals looking to integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) into their practice. Whether you’re new to IFS or want a structured approach for working with trauma, loss, and nervous system dysregulation, this course provides practical, evidence-based techniques that can be applied immediately.
Do I need prior experience with IFS to take this course?
No prior experience is required! You’ll start with a foundational introduction to IFS and progress through step-by-step guidance, live demonstrations, and experiential exercises designed to help you confidently apply IFS in clinical practice.
How long can I access the course materials?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use. In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or pre-recorded?
There are a total of five, 90-minute LIVE sessions, streamed online via Zoom. Additionally, you’ll be able to submit questions each week and during the live session, which includes time for Q&A.
Dr. Anderson will be conducting live client demos. During these sessions, he will guide you through his process and techniques in real-time. You’ll also have access to the client demos in your personal learning portal (Kajabi) to review at your own pace anytime.
Every live call and workshop will also be recorded and stored inside your personal learning portal (Kajabi) along with slide handouts, audio, and transcripts. So you can watch and re-watch at any time. In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
To get the most out of this course, we highly recommend you attend the live sessions if you can.
What if I can’t make it to the live calls—should I still take this course?
We would love to have you join each session live, but we recognize that you may already have prior commitments. If you’re unable to join us, we do record all sessions and training (including the Q&A), so you can still receive all the information and training you need.
Many of our students are unable to some (or all) of the live sessions and still find the recorded training, plus client demos, additional resources, audio, transcripts and course bonuses to be highly valuable and relevant to their learning goals. Additionally, the course materials are yours to download (other than client demos) and keep in your professional reference library, so you can come back and revisit the material at any time.
Are CE credits available for the course?
The LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 6 CE credit hours. These credits are already included in your purchase price.
If you are an eligible licensed clinical professional counselor or licensed social worker—and you need CE credits, you will need to attend all live sessions.
Attendance will be taken at each session to verify your eligibility.
Upon completion of the course, you will be sent an activity evaluation link, which must be completed within 60 days after the last program session (Saturday, June 28, 2025). Upon submission of the activity evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately.
Also, a Certificate of Completion is available to all students at the end of the course upon request at no additional charge.
Note: It is the participants responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Are there any discounts or scholarships available for this course?
We do offer a limited number of partial scholarships for students who attend an accredited university. Reduced enrollment rates are also available for those with limited resources in countries defined as low and lower middle income by the World Bank. Please contact us for more information. Please contact us for more information
I’m having trouble completing the purchase. How can I get support?
If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our Customer Support Team for help.
What is the refund policy for the course?
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice.
If you enroll in The IFS Clinician’s Guide: Restoring Self, Healing Trauma, and Deepening Therapy and you decide to withdraw from the course for any reason, you may cancel your participation within 5 days of the course start date and request either a full refund or credit for a future course.
You must make this request in writing to our Customer Support Team on or before Sunday, April 20, 2025. Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Do you need CE credits?
This course has been approved for 6 CE credit hours.
Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:
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Licensed Professional Counselors
(MUST attend live calls to be eligible)* - Licensed Clinical Social Workers
*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.
To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL SIX sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.
It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
- For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Trauma Solutions Customer Support.
- For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
- For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training participants will be able to:
- Learn to identify and work with protective parts in trauma therapy. Understand how preventative parts, extreme parts, and wounded parts shape a client’s internal system. Explore how these protective parts develop in response to trauma and influence behavior.
- Discover how to apply Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques for trauma healing. Use practical interventions to help clients engage with their parts safely. Foster internal harmony and emotional regulation by accessing Self-energy.
- Gain insight into the neurobiological impact of trauma and how IFS supports nervous system regulation. Recognize the physiological effects of trauma on the body and mind. Understand how IFS integrates with Polyvagal Theory and nervous system regulation techniques.
- Learn how to integrate IFS into clinical practice with confidence. Implement IFS techniques across different therapeutic modalities without needing a complete overhaul of your approach. Master best practices for introducing IFS to new clients and overcoming resistance in trauma work.
- Apply IFS interventions to work with anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation. Help clients unburden extreme emotions like fear, grief, and shame. Move beyond symptom management and facilitate lasting transformation.
- Understand the connection between attachment trauma and IFS. Explore how early attachment wounds shape a client’s internal system. Use IFS to foster secure attachment, self-compassion, and deeper relational healing.
- Recognize and manage the therapist’s own parts that emerge during trauma work. Develop self-awareness techniques to maintain therapeutic presence. Identify countertransference reactions and integrate Self-led awareness into your practice.
- Apply IFS principles to family systems and intergenerational trauma. Support parents and children in understanding their own parts. Use IFS to repair relational wounds and create healthier family dynamics.