Internal Family Systems Therapy Course

In this course, I'll explain to you the Internal Family Systems Therapy created by Richard Schwartz. It's a psychotherapeutic modality that assumes that we all have "Parts". Parts are explained as emotions and behavioral mechanisms that we use on a regular basis. They are usually causing dysfunctional patterns of behaviors that we want to change. With the help of this modality, you can help your clients, patients, and yourself to recognize where those patterns came from and what you need to do to change them to healthy mechanisms. It's a type of a inner child work that can be compared to Schema Therapy in some ways. You use structured questions that you ask your Parts to be able to get to know them, appreciate them for their good intentions and ultimately take over for them and create new functional behavioral patterns. It's an amazing therapy that you can practice on yourself and use in daily life to create good habits, and appropriate boundaries,  promote healthy self-esteem, and practice self-compassion. Your Parts think they need to keep working for you, but with Internal Family Systems Therapy you can make them realize that they don't have to be active anymore because you are the "Functional Adult" now taking over for them. I'll provide you with my personal take on this therapy and with some advice when it comes to the use of this modality. It's my main modality that I use with clients, even though I have studied multiple common therapies like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, and Art Therapy. Internal Family Systems Therapy is by far the most successful for treating my clients and to use on myself to deal with emotions and difficult situations.

In this lecture, You will find out what is the theory behind Internal Family Systems Therapy. I include the Manual and  Internal Family Systems Protocol from IFSCA, the school that offers IFS courses. I highly recommend their program if you need more practice and information.

In this lecture, we delve into the first type of Parts - Exiles. Which are deep and overwhelming emotions that are locked away to not to cause us pain.

In this lecture, we are discussing another type of Parts - Managers. Those behavioral mechanisms and feelings have an important protective role, they guard the Exiles.

In this lecture we discuss Firefighters, another type of a Part that is also a "Managing Entity". It stops deep difficult feelings instantly by diverting our attention.

Here we talk about "Us at the Core". The Functional Adult is the "True You" who should be in charge of your system.  Never the less Parts would often take over, that's why we need to lear how to go back to your "Self-Energy State".

In this lecture, I'll teach you how to Bring back Self Energy to switch to your "Adult State". We perform an exercise that you can also use with your clients.

This lecture prepares you for unexpected and unusual parts. They come as images, sensations, numbness, or road blocks.

In this lecture, I bring in the idea of "Uattahced Burdens" that pretend to be Parts. They are, however, just clingy entities that don't belong to us and need to be expelled.

Legacy Burdens are special types of Parts that we "inherit" from our parent or guarians.

In this lecture we talk about the initial phase of contacting the Parts and easing yourself or your client to talking to the Parts. We discuss approperiate language to use and how to recognise different types of Parts.

This lecture focuses on building trust with Parts and moving them into the state where they feel okay and comfortable to give us their responsibilities for you.