Transcending Trauma with IFS Therapy
- Speaker:
- Frank Anderson, MD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, ES, DE, FR, and IT, handouts in EN, ES, DE, FR, and IT
- Copyright:
-
09 Oct, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150438
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
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:
- Unload distorted thoughts and beliefs, discharge troubling sensations, and release feelings of unworthiness, loneliness, and unlovability
- Address protective parts in a trauma-specific manner, and gain the permission of these parts to access hidden vulnerabilities
- Use cognitive, body-centered, and emotional tools to release pain
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Credit
This self-study program consists of 2.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Transcending Trauma with IFS (3 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transcending Trauma with IFS (171.1 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transcending Trauma with IFS - French (3 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transcending Trauma with IFS - French (171.1 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transcending Trauma with IFS - Italian (3 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transcending Trauma with IFS - Italian (171.1 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transcending Trauma with IFS - German (3 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transcending Trauma with IFS - German (171.1 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Transcending Trauma with IFS - Spanish (3 MB) | 26 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Transcending Trauma with IFS - Spanish (171.1 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Frank Anderson, MD Related seminars and products
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.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.
Please Note
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Objectives
- Differentiate types of traumatic stress including those from early attachment ruptures.
- Distinguish the ways IFS is different from traditional phase-oriented treatments for traumatic stress.
- Demonstrate how IFS works with protective inner parts to access traumatic ruptures.
- Integrate IFS principles with other psychotherapeutic models of treatment.
- Evaluate common clinical setbacks to recovery from traumatic stress.
Outline
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
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counsellors
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