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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:
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Comparison of IFS with other models and phase-oriented treatments for trauma
Understand risks and limitations of the approach
Demonstrate how to identify and address clients’ protective parts
How to gain permission from protective parts to access hidden vulnerabilities
Differentiate between compassion and empathy and why both are important to trauma recovery
The 6 F’s of trauma recovery in IFS and moving beyond the 6 F’s
Addressing early attachment wounds, separation, and preverbal trauma
Addressing dissociative and perpetrator parts
Two subtypes of PTSD and how to address them differently
Order of trauma recovery
Common roadblocks to trauma recovery in clinical work
Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.
Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.
His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.
His memoir, To Be Loved, was released on May 7, 2024.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice, is the co-founder of the Trauma Institute, and is the co-founding producer of Trauma Informed Media. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
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