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All-New 4-Part Series with Dick Schwartz, PhD
When a Client’s Parts Sabotage Their Relationships
Applying Internal Family Systems to Heal Relationships in Distress

A client tells you they long for deeper relationships.
At the same time, you often hear them describe how they tend to push people away.
So where’s the disconnect?
A new relationship won’t change this pattern.
That’s because, according to Dick Schwartz, PhD, the work needs to start on the inside.
We’re bringing you a 4-part Internal Family Systems Series so you can help clients address their relationship issues from the inside out.
It’s an opportunity to learn how to help clients turn outward blame into internal awareness, a skill you’ll be able to use session after session.
This workshop is for you if:
- You want a clearer way to track what’s activated in a client during a relational conflict, not just what they’re describing
- You’re new to Internal Family Systems (IFS), or you want more tools for polarization, protector work, and repair
- You want to leave with actionable language you can apply with a client right away
- You want your clients to walk away taking responsibility for their parts (and not just insight about their partner’s)
Here’s How it Works
In each session of this four-part series, Dr. Schwartz and a lead trainer will zero in on a distinct stage of relational work, from activation to repair, and walk you through the IFS strategies that support it.
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 session (and all of the content is yours to keep forever).
— New Live Workshop —
When a Client’s Parts Sabotage Their Relationships
Working with Parts Activated in Relationships (September 30th from 11am-1pm ET)
Dick Schwartz, PhD and Jeanne Catanzaro, PhD
- Why “they need to change” is often a cue to redirect the work inward, and how to do that without dismissing what the client’s feeling
- How early attachment wounds shape which parts show up in a client’s relationships
- Specific language for helping clients locate and name what’s activated for them internally
How Polarized Parts Can Keep Clients Trapped in a Cycle of Protection in Their Relationships (October 21st from 11am-1pm ET)
Dick Schwartz, PhD
- The tug of war between internal parts that want connection and parts that push it away (and how it shows up in relationship conflict)
- How a client’s own protective behaviors (withdrawal, criticism, control) can quietly fuel the pattern they’re trying to escape
- A way to map the trigger, reaction, and consequence cycle so clients can see their own pattern instead of just living inside it
- Interventions for slowing down reactivity and building observational distance from an activated part
How to Help Clients Approach Their Vulnerable Parts with Curiosity, Compassion, and Calm (November 12th, from 11am-1pm ET)
Dick Schwartz, PhD with Kristen Burge, JD, MA
- The clinical markers that indicate when a client is blended with a part that’s hurting their relationships
- How to pace and titrate access to a client’s most vulnerable parts without overwhelming them
- What to do when a client’s protector won’t step aside, (and how to recognize when that might be the right call)
From Internal Change to Relational Repair (December 3rd, from 11am-1pm, ET)
Dick Schwarz, PhD with Jeanne Catanzaro, PhD
- How to help a client take ownership of their part in a conflict without it tipping into self-blame
- What needs to happen internally before a client is ready for a repair conversation
- The markers that show whether a client’s relational progress is real and lasting, not just talk
What Changes After This Workshop
- You’ll have a process for tracking activation in real time while your client describes their relationships
- You’ll recognize polarization and protective cycles as they’re happening, not after the fact
- You’ll have specific language for helping clients access their most vulnerable parts
Register Here for $397 $197
and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Dick Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).
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

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.
Jeanne Catanzaro, PhD
Approved IFS consultant and Vice-chair of the IFS Institute. Jeanne is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in treating disordered eating and trauma for over twenty-five years. She trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and eye movement-desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) before discovering the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model.
Kristen Burge, JD, MA, CM/F
Level 3 trained and Certified IFS Practitioner with additional training in IFS couples and relational work. She has served as a Program Assistant for IFS Institute Level 1 and Level 2 trainings, is on staff for IFIO trainings, and received a Certificate in Clinical Applications of IFS Therapy from the Adler Graduate Professional School.
Here's What You'll Get:
Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library
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Access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Dick Schwartz, PhD and the top IFS trainers |
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The opportunity to ask Dr. Schwartz and the top IFS trainers your questions during each live session |
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A downloadable recording of each session to watch whenever it’s convenient for you |
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A professionally formatted transcript of each session |
Register Here for $397 $197
and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Dick Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).
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
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.
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Why the Transcript Is Essential:
- 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

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Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada
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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.
Register Here for $397 $197
and get access to the 4 live, interactive sessions with Dick Schwartz, PhD, and IFS lead trainers, as well as the recordings and transcripts of each presentation (a few days after).
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.