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Exploring the Essential Features of “Richard Schwartz – PESI – Dick Schwartz’s In-Session IFS Mastery Series: Breakthrough Healing for Trauma and PTSD”
“IFS has changed the way therapy is practiced.” — Bessel van der Kolk
IFS founder Dick Schwartz is the most sought-after teacher for learning the approach that’s reshaping psychotherapy.
Now you can join Dick in his office to experience his hand-selected, most “triggering-for-therapists” trauma sessions.
In these rarely seen full sessions, you’ll be side-by-side with Dick and his clients as he facilitates the healing of decades of suffering in just one session. Learn the intricate steps and nuances of applying the revolutionary IFS model as Dick works with these complex cases:
- Dan, a military veteran with severe PTSD experiencing suicidality and homicidal impulses
- Bob, an intensely angry survivor of chronic sexual abuse projecting anger at Dick
- Kathy, a chronic sexual abuse survivor whose pain has led to other self-destructive behaviors
- Jody, a survivor of childhood trauma, who makes such profound change… you won’t believe the finale!
Gain confidence using IFS in therapy and break through the walls your clients have built up. Discover the healing approach that’s been adopted by thousands of respected practitioners so you can offer your clients a life they never thought possible!
Welcome to the IFS experiential course that’s built around your success!
- Gain insight as Dick shares the thinking behind his clinical decisions at critical points in the session
- Understand your own internal responses so you won’t be triggered in your sessions
- Expand your ability to navigate difficult emotions and empower your clients to manage their pain beyond the therapy sessions
- Learn from step-by-step explanations of IFS while seeing them unfold with real clients
All while gaining the skills and confidence to sensitively apply IFS therapy to challenging cases!
What You’ll Experience
From intimate client footage and exclusive interviews with Dick, you’ll walk away with enhanced and refined skills so you can use IFS with any client — no matter the intensity of the trauma.
Introduction to the IFS Model & Client Sessions
Richard Schwartz
Dick will enhance your understanding of the evidence-based IFS approach and guide you to take your clients beyond their pain into lasting healing.
You’ll get a step-by-step breakdown of what is happening in session for Dick and his clients — so you’ll be prepared to start applying IFS techniques right away. This course will not only show you how to help clients heal, but also what to do when you’re triggered as the therapist so you can intuitively know how to guide your clients to the healing they’re so desperately seeking.
Client Sessions
Dan, Veteran with PTSD
Meet Dan, who suffers from PTSD after being a medic in an active war zone. Dan fights to cope with suicidal and homicidal thoughts, internal voices, dissociation, and an extreme tic. In just one session, you’ll see Dick demonstrate how to break through the walls Dan has put up to keep others out, bring emotions where numbness used to be, cut through resistance and keep Dan digging deeper into his pain — so he can experience healing at the root of his trauma.
Skill building:
- Overcome language barriers with diverse clients
- Address dissociated parts so you can get to your client’s feelings
- Get your clients to keep going into intense emotions, even if you’re triggered
- Give your clients the skills to soothe their own internal pain
Bob, Survivor of Chronic Sexual Abuse with Intense Anger Projected at Therapist
In this rare session, Dick shows you that you don’t need to end a session early if a client gets angry. You’ll meet Bob, who projects his anger not only at himself and others in his life, but also at Dick. Learn how to validate how the hurt clients feel underneath visceral rage. See how inner child work from an IFS perspective integrates attachment theory, systems theory, and unconditional acceptance of the client.
Skill Building:
- Create an environment of validation, even when client parts are loud and violent
- Find the true source of your client’s anger
- Empower clients to “keep talking” with their damaged parts long after therapy has ended
Kathy, Chronic Sexual Abuse Survivor
Dick walks you through subtle and overt moment-to-moment changes as he works with Kathy who, after years of sexual abuse, engages in chronic self-destructive behaviors. As Kathy moves deeper into her pain and closer to healing, her in-session behaviors become very triggering for most therapists. Dick will show you how IFS can guide you in what to do when clients have intense psychosomatic pain.
Skill Building:
- Manage suicidal parts immediately so you can get to deeper work
- Stay calm when clients engage in spontaneous and intense unburdening
- Build strategies to find meaning in clients’ bodily movements during sessions
Jody, Survivor of Childhood Trauma
Meet Jody, a woman with deeply ingrained emptiness, fear, and a sense she’s done something wrong after years of childhood trauma. In this session, Dick shows you how the fundamental ingredients of IFS come together to free Jody from parts of herself that prevent change and have been too frightening to feel — until now!
Skill Building:
- Get resistant parts of your client on your side in the first session
- Know what to do during moments of silence with clients
- Shutdown emotional flooding and help clients get back in control
- Help clients create gratitude and peace with parts of themselves they have pushed away
BONUS! Get immediate access to two groundbreaking IFS training sessions!
The Internal Family Systems Approach to Psychedelic Experiences
Richard Schwartz
Fascinating, powerful, and new for many therapists is psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. In this training, Dick explores the benefits, dangers, and avenues for new research with this type of therapy, specifically with how it integrates with IFS.
The Somatics of the Self: The Living, Sensing Self
Richard Schwartz
Peter Levine
Leaders and colleagues in the field of psychotherapy, expand your perspective as you listen to Dick and Peter engage in a dynamic conversation exploring the relationship between IFS and Somatic Experiencing.
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