(HS Anderson 150438 2025) Transcending Trauma with IFS Therapy

Course overview

For many clients with complex PTSD, life can feel like a draining onslaught of negative feelings: worthlessness, hopelessness, anxiety, and loneliness. And for the therapists who treat them, it's hard to cultivate hope while addressing trauma-related volatility and vulnerability. Fortunately, incorporating Internal Family Systems techniques into treatment has been shown to reduce the aftereffects of relational trauma and early attachment wounds, allowing therapists to help clients create a path forward. In this workshop, you'll be applying neuroscientific principles to therapeutic decisions about extreme symptoms as you address common adaptations for relational trauma such as neglect, shame, and substance abuse. You'll learn to help clients: Unload distorted thoughts and beliefs, discharge troubling sensations, and release feelings of unworthiness, loneliness, and unlovability Address protective parts in a trauma-specific manner, and gain the permission of these parts to access hidden vulnerabilities Use cognitive, body-centered, and emotional tools to release pain This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.