Dr. Frank Anderson – Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS): An Intensive Online Course

Name: Dr. Frank Anderson - Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS): An Intensive Online Course
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After decades of clinical breakthroughs and scientific research, the Internal Family Systems model has been shown to be effective for healing even the most complex trauma.

Add additional power to your current clinical approach and make trauma treatment more effective in a short period of time when you incorporate Internal Family Systems (IFS) in your practice.

Join Dr. Frank Anderson, psychiatrist, author, and vice chair of the Foundation for Self Leadership — the leading organization dedicated to advancing the IFS model through research and training — in this comprehensive online course where he will give you a step–by–step guide for applying IFS into your clinical practice.

Throughout the online course, special emphasis will be given to understanding how trauma affects the brain and how you can use IFS to heal complex trauma and its common co-morbidities, including anxiety, depression, panic, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and more.

You’ll also get exclusive insight on how neuroscience can inform why, how and what IFS techniques you should use to maximize your clinical outcomes — so you’ll know exactly how to empower your clients to overcome even the most complex traumas.

Learning IFS has never been easier — revolutionize your clinical approach and help your clients heal!

You’ve likely heard your clients explain their feelings of conflicting emotions, “a part of me wants to…and then there’s a part of me that doesn’t…” as they grapple with their internal “Self,” desires, and behaviors.

With the transformative IFS approach, the idea of multiplicity of the mind is normal. Every part has a good intention, and every part has value. Even for trauma survivors.

Through engaging case studies, in-session demonstrations, and masterfully presented lectures, Dr. Frank Anderson will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically-validated IFS interventions to help your clients listen to and understand their conflicting parts to master their emotions — so they can discover deep, lasting healing.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this online course…

Accelerate the healing from complex trauma by integrating the IFS model into your current clinical practice
Improve assessment and treatment planning with tools to help identify, specify, and clarify the protective parts of clients with trauma histories
Protect clients from emotional and psychological pain by offering an alternate view of symptoms and psychopathology that shows clients how parts are trying to protect them
Showcase a non-pathological perspective of mental health disorders by demonstrating how IFS translates common comorbidities into parts language
Increase your curious and compassionate self when using IFS to work with clients who have trauma histories.
Improve clinical outcomes by learning how to differentiate between therapeutic and biological conditions.
Heal clients’ traumatic wounds through the unique IFS internal attachment model.
Handle extreme symptoms of trauma by determining if they are rooted in sympathetic activation or parasympathetic withdrawal.
Gain quicker access to your client’s traumatic vulnerabilities through IFS specific therapeutic techniques that shift arousal and withdrawal.
Use neuroscience to inform your therapeutic decision–making so you’ll know exactly what tool or strategy to use to help your clients heal.
Integrate IFS with your current treatment approaches including EMDR, DBT, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Through nine comprehensive video modules you’ll learn…

How to Treat the Various Types of Trauma

Acute trauma
PTSD
Complex or relational trauma
Developmental and attachment traumas
Extreme or dissociative trauma

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model

The origins, goals & assumptions
A non-pathologizing, accelerated approach, rooted in neuroscience
How IFS differs from phase-oriented treatment
The importance of our protective responses
Dealing with emotional overwhelm head-on
Multiplicity of the mind — we all have parts
Clinical considerations for clients experiencing abuse

The IFS Technique

Step 1: Identify the Target Symptom
- Applying meditation practices
- Separating the person (self) from the symptom
- Learning about its intention
Step 2: Gain Access to Internal Strengths & Resources for Healing
- Moving from defensiveness to curiosity
- The “Self” of the therapist-countertransference redefined
- Accessing compassion to open the pathways toward healing
- Role of empathy in healing — the benefits and the downsides
Step 3: Find the Fear and Function of the Symptom
- Focusing on its fear
- The real story behind the symptom
- Fostering the internal relationship
Step 4: Healing of Traumatic Wounds
- Three phases to healing: Witness the pain, remove the wounded part out of the past, and let go of the feelings, thoughts and beliefs
- Science behind the healing — memory reconsolidation

Attachment Disorders and Relational Trauma

IFS as internal attachment work
Attachment styles as parts of self
Attachment trauma — the role of the therapist
Heal relational wounds of childhood
Client’s “Self” as the corrective object
Work with preverbal trauma

Manage Common Co-Morbidities

Depression, panic attacks, substance abuse, eating disorders, ADD and OCD
A non-pathological approach
Comorbidities as protective responses to trauma
Symptoms as “parts of the self”

Differentiate Therapeutic Issues from Biological Conditions

Intersection of biology and situation (“Real Mind-Body Medicine”)
Therapist’s role in biology — When to refer and when to work it through
Psychotherapy of psychopharmacology

The Neurobiology of Trauma

Neuroscience for therapists — what you need to know
Fear circuitry and the development of PTSD
Extreme reactions and Autonomic Nervous System
Rage to suicide and dissociation to shame

Dealing with the Extreme Reactions of Trauma

Talking directly to the symptom
Introducing the part to the “Self”
Dealing with the overwhelm — no need for building resources
How to stay clear and calm while working with clients in extreme states

How Neuroscience Informs Therapeutic Decisions

Top-down and bottom-up strategies rooted in neuroscience
When it’s necessary to take over and “be the auxiliary brain” for your client
When it’s best to slow things down, hand over control and work with the body
Sensing vs. making sense of things
At home strategies

Integrate IFS into Your Treatment Approach

EMDR, DBT, Sensorimotor/SE and other methods
Transformation vs adaptation or rehabilitation
Going beyond the cognitive (experiential therapies)
Integrating IFS with your current clinical approach

This intensive online course also includes:

Live demonstrations
Meditations
Practice sessions

Meet Your Course Expert:

Frank Guastella Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is the vice chair of the Foundation for Self Leadership. He is a trainer at the Center for Self Leadership with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center at Justice Resource Center in Boston, MA.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy-New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on “What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy” and recently co-authored “Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.”

Dr. Anderson maintains a private practice in Concord, MA, and serves as an Advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP).

Speaker Disclosures: Financial: Frank Anderson maintains a private practice. He receives a consulting fee from the Center for Self Leadership. Dr. Anderson receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. Non-financial: Frank Anderson is the President of the Foundation for Self Leadership.

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