- Origins of IFS – the work of Richard Schwartz, PhD
- A non-pathologizing, accelerated approach rooted in neuroscience
- Apply inner resources and self-compassion for treatment
- How to work with implicit memory wounds
- Harness neuroscience for techniques that treat traumatic wounds
- Study limitations: small sample size, no control group
- Clinical considerations for clients experiencing abuse
Step 1: Identifying the Diagnoses & Symptoms
- Assess the diagnoses: PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders
- Apply Meditation practices
- Finding the symptom
- Focusing on its fear
- Separating the person (self) from the symptom
- Becoming curious about it
- Find the real story behind the symptom
- Moving from defensiveness to curiosity
- Access compassion to open the pathways toward healing
- Foster “internal attachment” work
- The “Self” of the therapist-countertransference redefined
- Three phases:
- Witness the pain
- Remove the wounded part out of the past
- Leg go of the feelings, thoughts and beliefs
- Memory reconsolidation & neuroscience
- EMDR, DBT, Sensorimotor and other methods
- Transformation vs adaptation or rehabilitation
- Going beyond the cognitive
- Integrate IFS with your current clinical approach


