Do you encounter blocks and defenses during EMDR reprocessing or not feel sure where to go next?

 

Or do you ever feel stuck with blocking beliefs, looping, dissociation or knowing how to assess readiness to proceed?

 

What if you never had to feel stuck again?​

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THAT is what Internal Family Systems offers. No More Feeling Stuck.

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The EMDR+IFS PARTS Protocol integrates the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with EMDR Psychotherapy. As EMDRIA describes the integration, the overlay of the two models allows for "a more permission-focused approach to trauma healing. EMDR remains the foundational structure upon which the healing occurs, and the IFS model is the creative, permissive, and curiosity-driven process to prepare clients for trauma processing." Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy offers us a helpful framework to navigate these complex blocks and defenses by honoring and welcoming these parts of self. Due to the consent and relationship driven model, clinicians using the IFS-informed approach find processing to be smoother and more effective, especially with complex cases and for those struggling with standard protocol.

 

Throughout this training, you will:

- Identify key concepts and intersecting theoretical principles of the EMDR and IFS models

- Gain language to be able to explain the role of EMDR and IFS in processing and resolving traumatic memory

- Identify why a multi-intervention approach is needed for relational, developmental and complex trauma

- Identify benefits and limitations of integrating EMDR and IFS into a single-model approach

- Learn when to integrate and when to use stand alone models

- Learn step by step treatment planning and integration techniques

- Learn a non-pathologizing approach to addressing blocking beliefs, looping and resistance that honor’s the client’s protective system and innate drive to survive

- Gain the skills to work with client defenses and keep therapy moving forward

- Develop new and creative strategies to help clients resource, even during the most intense emotions

- Learn when and how to Integrate Bilateral Stimulation into steps of the IFS model

- Learn how to help clients gain insight into how protective inner parts function defensively

- Gain permission from clients to help them navigate their internal parts and proceed to healing

​- Increase your capacity to lead clients through the healing process through focusing on your own presence and Self-energy in the space

- Tune into nervous system cues and increase your therapeutic presence with clients

- Develop a greater sense of self-awareness and compassion with clients

- PRACTICE integrating the models in a safe and encouraging environment