Richard C. Schwartz – Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). 2-Day Experiential Workshop

Faculty:

Richard C. Schwartz

Duration:

12 Hours 43 Minutes

Format:

Audio and Video

Copyright:

Feb 27, 2020

Description

I struggled to get results as a young therapist. I tried to control the difficult symptoms I was seeing and avoided my client’s internal emotions, which led to heated arguments and frustration rather than progress.

I finally found the answer to healing and transformation when I started listening closely to my clients.

I realized that was the key when clients talked about their parts and how they felt. We have to let go of the trauma, abuse, attachment injuries and suffering that they feel.

Internal Family Systems has been scientifically tested to be effective at helping a wide variety of mental health conditions. Depression, trauma, addiction, and anxiety. It is one of the fastest-growing approaches in therapy.

As your clients learn to heal themselves, IFS will transform their lives. It’s not therapist directives or insights, it’s a connection with your client that creates lasting healing.

Join me in this recording. I will give you valuable feedback and show you how to use it. I want to give you the skills you need to help your clients, so you can improve their lives.

Richard Schwartz is a doctor.

Handouts

Manual – Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) (0.72 MB) 23 Pages Available after Purchase

Outline

The internal family system.

• Origins of IFS – the work of Richard Schwartz, PhD
• A non-pathologizing, accelerated approach rooted in neuroscience
• Apply inner resources and self-compassion for healing
• How to heal implicit memory wounds
• Study limitations: small sample size, no control group
• Clinical considerations for clients experiencing abuse

The technique is called the IFS.

The first step is to identify the diagnoses and symptoms.

• Assess the diagnoses: PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders
• Apply meditation practices
  • Find the symptom, focus on its fear
  • Separate the person from the symptom
  • Become curious about it
  • Find the real story behind the symptom

Gain access to internal strengths and resources for healing.

• Move from defensiveness to curiosity
• Access compassion to open the pathways toward healing
• Foster “internal attachment” work
• The “Self” of the therapist-countertransference redefined

The healing of the traumatic wound is the third step.

• Three phases to healing the wound:
  • Witness the pain
  • Remove the wounded part out of the past
  • Let go of the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs

Issuing specific grounding techniques is empowering.

• Flashbacks
• Panic attacks
• Suicide
• Dissociation

Faculty

Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 23

Owner

The Center for Self Leadership

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Richard Schwartz is a doctor. After earning his PhD in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University, he began a long association with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and more recently at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, attaining the status of associate professor. He is a co-author. Concepts and methods of family therapy. The United States has the most widely used family therapy text.

Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients’ descriptions of experiencing various parts. He noticed that when these parts felt safe and had their concerns addressed, they were less disruptive and would acquiesce to the wise leadership of what Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self. The inner world of the clients is defined by characteristic roles that parts take on. The coordinating Self, which embodies qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion, acts as a center around which the various parts coalesce. The therapist is free to focus on guiding the client’s access to his or her true Self and supporting the client inHarnessing its wisdom because the source of healing is located within the client. This approach makes the framework for practicing psychotherapy non-pathologizing. It provides an alternative understanding of psychic functioning and healing that allows for innovative techniques to relieve clients symptoms and suffering.

The Center for Self Leadership was founded by Richard Schwartz. Dr. Schwartz is a featured speaker for many national psychotherapy organizations and a fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and he serves on the editorial boards of four professional journals. He’s published four books and over 50 articles. His books are included. There is a training manual for internal family systems. Frank Anderson, M.D. and Martha Sweezy, Ph.D are associated withPESI. Therapy for family systems. TheGuilford Press was published in 1997. There is an introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model. Tarcher, 2001 There is a mind called the Mosaic Mind. As well as with Regina Goulding. There are metaframeworks. Doug Breunlin and Betty Karrer were in this picture. Dr. Schwartz is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard School of Medicine.

Speaker disclosures.

Richard Schwartz is the founder of The Center for Self Leadership. He is paid by PESI, Inc.

Richard Schwartz is a non-financial member of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy.

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