Stacy Ruse – The Complete Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Competency Course
Introducing the start-to-finish course specifically designed to get you using one of today’s most in-demand approaches!
…so you can work with your clients’ internal parts and empower them to heal the core issues behind their trauma, anxiety, depression, and more.
You’ll join Stacy Ruse, an expert IFS Therapist, for a robust learning experience complete with in-depth instruction, demonstrations, and practical real-world applications that will deepen your understanding of the IFS framework and enhance your therapeutic skills.
With over 22 hours of self-paced on-demand video instruction, this truly comprehensive course immerses you in the language and techniques of Internal Family Systems therapy — all on your schedule and at a price you can afford.
So, if you’ve been looking to add the non-pathologizing approach that has the therapy world buzzing, look no further.
This program is the clinical roadmap you need to start using IFS Therapy in your practice right now.
Register now and join thousands of therapists who’ve already transformed their treatment with the power of Internal Family Systems therapy.
- Greater alignment with your clients through client-led techniques
- Enhanced insight with clear applications for your clients’ lives
- Creative and new ways to work with trapped trauma and stored pain
- Directly access attachment and relational trauma for immediate relief
- Quickly move past symptoms and diagnostic labels to resolve core suffering
- Brief history of IFS
- Basic assumptions and holistic approach
- Inclusivity, cultural humility, and competency
- IFS therapeutic and clinical applications
- The 8 C’s: Self-qualities
- Holding Self-energy: 5 P’s for Self-lead therapists
- The benefits of Self-energy and therapist presence
- Compassion, connection, and understanding
- Setting appropriate boundaries
- Biases and transference in the therapeutic relationship
- Cultural humility and competency
- IFS a bottom-up treatment method rooted in neuroscience
- Neuroscience 101 for therapists — what you need to know
- Sensing vs. making sense of things
- Stress reactions and the autonomic nervous system: Polyvagal 101
- Fear circuitry and the development of PTSD, trauma, dissociation, and complex trauma
- Defining parts: who and what are parts?
- Defining Self: who and what is Self?
- The burdened system
- Protective Parts
- Managers: the proactive parts
- Common roles and traits of manager parts
- Examples and common archetypes
- Firefighters: the reactive parts
- Common roles and traits of manager parts
- Examples and common archetypes
- What is ‘backlash’?
- Managers: the proactive parts
- Burdens, examples, and understanding
- Understanding the situation: Mapping internal and external factors
- Engaging the client: Intro, relationship, target, and tracking
- Permission to work with the protective system
- Healing exiles and internal wounds
- Integration of the work: Adapting to changes
- Completion & closure: appreciation and closing sessions
- Unblending the system for emotional regulation
- Goals for unblending the system
- Mapping and externalizing the system
- The Why, When, and How of unblending
- Statements for unblending
- The 6 F’s of IFS: Getting to Know Parts
- Find, Focus, Flesh out, Feel towards, beFriend, and Fears
- Shifting to inner story & connection
- In-sight work
- Self to part work
- Speaking for parts
- Benefits to in-sight work
- When to use and examples
- Direct access work
- Implicit vs. explicit
- Therapist Self to part work
- Part to part work
- Benefits to direct access work
- When to use and examples
- Creating safety and getting permission
- Targets and use of trailheads
- Resistance as a protection
- Distinguish between parts and Self
- Significance of appreciation
- Assess ability for in-sight or direct work
- Getting to know managers
- Specific goals, issues, and questions
- How to work with
- Getting to know firefighters
- Specific goals, issues, and questions
- How to work with
- Common protector concerns and fears
- Getting to know exiles
- Trauma, attachment wounds, and exiles
- What causes parts to get exiled and shadowed?
- Common traits, burdens; legacy and cultural burdens
- Common exile concerns and fears
- Safely working with exiles
- Unburdening process Step by Step
- Self to part relationship and preventing overwhelm
- Witnessing, invitation, do-overs, and retrieval
- Integration of work and additional considerations
- Internal polarizations and alignment
- Types, Identifying, goals, and examples
- Steps to working with polarizations
- Therapist parts interfering
- Common therapist parts
- When burdens and parts come back?
- Predicting ‘backlash’
- Complex systems — hard to track; Lack of client Self-energy
- Blended parts not unblending
- Lack of awareness in the body
- Attachment-based IFS
- Somatic based IFS
- Complex Trauma, and Dissociation
- Spirituality, Transpersonal psychology, and IFS
- IFS integration with other models
- Examining the current research
- Challenges to the research and research limitations
- Addressing potential risks
- Contraindications and other considerations
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