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A 4-PART SERIES WITH RICHARD SCHWARTZ, PHD

Applying Internal Family Systems to Complex Clinical Issues

Program SpeakersSpeaker imagesAs an experienced practitioner, you know that lasting change often comes from addressing what’s underneath your client’s symptoms and struggles.

But even after acquiring years of experience and honing your skills, some clients can still leave you stumped. Their old wounds keep resurfacing, their defenses stay rigid, and the process feels fragile.

This is where Internal Family Systems (IFS) could help.

IFS provides a compassionate framework for helping clients approach the most wounded parts of themselves so they can address the symptoms that impede progress.

And what makes IFS especially valuable for practitioners is its flexibility.

Instead of a rigid protocol, you can integrate IFS with your tried-and-true approaches to help bring about deep, lasting healing.

So to help you apply IFS to some of your most complex cases, we brought together Richard Schwartz, PhD and a select team of IFS lead trainers in a new program.

Here’s How it Works

In each session of this four-part series, Dr. Schwartz and a lead trainer will zero in on a specific clinical issue. They’ll walk you through IFS-based strategies that can help bring about lasting change.

Your registration includes access to all four sessions (they’re spaced a month apart to help you digest the key points and integrate them into your work).

In each session, we’ll hold some time for Q&A throughout, so that you’ll have the opportunity to ask for clarification or follow-up.

And if you missed a live session?? No worries.

With your registration, you also receive the recording and transcript of each (and all of the content is yours to keep forever).

There’s Still Time to Join Dr. Schwartz and His Colleagues Live – at 40% Off

We’ve still got room in the remaining two live workshops . . . and you can still reserve your spot at a discount of 40%.

Your registration also includes the audio and video recordings (including Q&A sessions) as well as transcripts of ALL of the sessions in this program – so you won’t miss a thing.

Here’s the full session lineup . . .

— New Program —

Applying Internal Family Systems to Complex Clinical Issues

How to Integrate IFS into OCD Treatment
(November 20th from 12pm-2pm ET)

Richard Schwartz, PhD and Melissa Mose, LMFT
  • From pathology to protection: the traditional vs. IFS conceptualization of OCD
  • How to blend IFS with Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to improve client engagement
  • How to differentiate obsessive from compulsive parts within a client’s internal system
  • The key relationship between neurobiology and internal parts (and how it impacts OCD treatment)

The Shadow Side: An IFS Approach to Extreme Beliefs and Negative Self-Narratives
(December 18th from 12pm-2pm ET)

Richard Schwartz, PhD
  • How negative self-narratives get internalized by parts holding shame, fear, or trauma
  • How to spot the patterns that keep clients tied to extreme beliefs
  • Strategies for working with a client’s “dark” or disowned parts
  • How to foster unburdening with parts that hold harmful or destructive beliefs

Also included with your registration: Audio, Video, and Transcripts of each (previously recorded) session.

Using IFS to Bring Compassion to Complex Trauma and Compulsive Patterns (Recorded: 9/25)

Richard Schwartz, PhD and Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW
  • How to help your client understand the push-pull between their parts
  • The chronic inner battle of blame, shame, and flame – and how a parts approach can disrupt it
  • Steering your client through the 6 F’s of Inner Dialogue
  • How to respond when polarity dynamics impact the therapeutic process in parts work
  • Introducing a key reframe for healing: Exactly what to say to help clients shift from judgment to compassion

Treating Shame from an IFS Perspective (Recorded: 10/23)

Richard Schwartz, PhD and Martha Sweezy, PhD
  • How to identify shame-driven vs. guilt-driven behaviors
  • Conceptualizing the shame cycle through an IFS lens
  • Specific language to help shift how clients think about shame
  • The most adaptive emotion to tap into when working with shame
  • Seven key steps to ease persistent feelings of shame

Register Here for $397 $237

and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Richard Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).

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8 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures

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We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.

For This Course, We Brought Together the Top Experts in the Field

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz, PhD

Richard Schwartz, PhD is the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS).

IFS is a non-pathologizing, transformative model of therapy that has been adopted by many psychotherapists, and was hailed by Bessel van der Kolk as “the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively.”

Dr. Schwartz developed the IFS model in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He found that when the parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, clients would feel more confident, open, and compassionate.

Dr. Schwartz is a featured speaker for national professional organizations. He has published five books and over fifty articles about IFS.

Cece Sykes, LCSW, ACSW

Founding Trainer at the IFS Institute; Author of IFS Therapy for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More; Originator of the Heart Lessons of the Journey retreats for therapists.

Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW

Author of Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt; Research and training consultant at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance; Assistant Professor part-time in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Melissa Mose, LMFT

Certified ERP Therapist; Level 3 Trained and Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and IFS-I Approved Clinical Consultant; President of the Board of Directors of OCD Southern California; Author of Internal Family Systems Therapy for OCD: A Clinician’s Guide

Here's What You'll Get:

Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library

Check mark Access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Richard Schwartz, PhD and three top IFS trainers
Check mark The opportunity to ask Dr. Schwartz and the three top IFS trainers your questions during each live session
Check mark A downloadable recording of each session to watch whenever it’s convenient for you
Check mark A professionally formatted transcript of each session

You’ll Also Get This Bonus Session with Even More Insights on Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation

Five ‘Processing Principles’ for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Peter Addy, PhD
  • The Critical Steps That Can Help You Guide a Patient Intent on Experimenting with Psychedelic Substances
  • A Peek into What Types of Therapy Might Pair Well with a Psychedelic Experience

Register Here for $397 $237

and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Richard Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).

Sign Me Up

8 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

You Are Protected By
NICABM’s Money-Back Guarantee

We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.

Here’s What Your Peers Have Said About Other NICABM Programs

. . . I feel so fortunate to have this access to brain power, experience and research synthesis . . .

“When I listen to the experts talk openly about their experience, I feel so fortunate to have this access to brain power, experience and research synthesis on cutting edge issues! I go back to the videos to reinforce things that will assist my clients.”

Mary Logan, Counselor
Ipswich, MA

. . . grounded in real challenges that all clinicians experience . . .

“The program is grounded in real challenges that all clinicians experience at one time or another – very supportive and validating!”

Irene Javors, Counselor
East Elmhurst, NY

NICABM offers one of the best, if not the best continuing education for health and behavioral health professionals.

“Thank you so much for the quality top expert speaker information. I always feel confident I have state of the art skills during my work when I continue my professional education with NICABM.”

Cynthia Beanblossom, MEd, LPC, Counseling
Anthem, AZ

Thank you, NICABM . . .

“Thank you, NICABM, for taking the direction you are taking and providing a viewpoint that is humane, holistic, and scientific at the same time.”

Harry Zeit, MD, DABEM, CGPP, Physician Psychotherapist
North York, Ontario, Canada

. . . remarkable clarity and a good foundation for opportunities for future treatments.

“Dynamite presentation with remarkable clarity and a good foundation for opportunities for future treatments.”

Curt Niederee, MD
Weston, Montana

. . . current, scientific, and cutting edge . . .

“Every time I attend one of your webinars I am blown away by not only the depth of information – current, scientific, and cutting edge – but also the way you always integrate the practicality and usefulness of each presenter’s theories and work.”

Erica Goodstone, PhD, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Somatic Body Psychotherapist
Deerfield Beach, Florida

Why the Transcript Is Essential:

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  • The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
  • We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
  • Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
  • Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
  • You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients

Angela Lawrence

“I really liked being able to follow along with the transcripts as I listened…it was nice not to feel like I had to take notes. I really feel like I remember more when I both hear and see at the same time.”

Mary Ellen McNaughton, Masters in Counseling, Psychology Counselor
Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

You Are Protected By
NICABM’s Money-Back Guarantee

We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.

Register Here for $397 $237

and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Richard Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).

Sign Me Up

8 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.

Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures

* Internal Family Systems and IFS are trademarks of the IFS institute.

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