Janina Fisher, Frank Anderson – Working with Complex Trauma Clients: Putting the Pieces Together with Janina Fisher, PhD and Frank Anderson, MD

Successful treatment of complex trauma requires being able to work with all parts of your clients—the parts that clients identify with as “me” and the disowned parts they have despised, disowned or dissociated.

Without giving voice to all parts and resolving the conflicts between them, your treatment efforts can fall short, leaving clients to continue their daily struggle with suicidality, self-harm, addiction and other self-destructive behaviors.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) are two of the most effective evidence-based tools available to clinicians today for safely and effectively working with clients’ trauma-related parts.

And this 2-Day online workshop is your chance to train with two of the biggest names in the trauma field as they share the demonstrations, case studies and tips you need to bring the power of these clinical approaches into your own practice!

Watch Frank Anderson, MD, IFS Institute lead trainer and program consultant and Janina Fisher Ph.D., international trauma expert and creator of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment as they show you how you can use these contrasting yet complementary approaches to:

• Understand complex and unstable clients as systems of fragmented parts
• Overcome roadblocks to working with extreme symptoms of trauma
• Re-interpret self-destructive behavior as the actions of protector parts
• Repair the injuries of traumatized child parts
• Bring curiosity and compassion to habitual states of hopelessness, shame and self-blame
• Heal wounds caused by repeated relational violations.

Don’t miss the opportunity to join not one, but two legendary trauma clinicians and trainers.

Purchase today and feel more confident than ever before in working with all your trauma clients’ parts!

Outline

DAY ONE

Workshop Overview: Frank Anderson and Janina Fisher

Trauma and Dissociation [Fisher]

• Dissociation and fragmentation as normal responses to trauma
• How fragmentation aids survival and adaptation
• Repeated re-activation of trauma responses and traumatized parts in the context of safety

Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) [Fisher]

• Applying a parts model to personality disorders and complex PTSD
• The Structural Dissociation Model
• Re-interpreting client symptoms as manifestations of parts
• Mindfulness-based techniques for working with parts
• Stabilization of symptoms and impulses
• State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice

Internal Family Systems [Anderson]

• IFS Model
• Parts and psychopathology
• The 6 F’s, working with protective parts
• State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice

Trauma and Dissociation, cont. [Anderson]

• The Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation
• Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
• Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
• Beyond the 6 F’s in IFS

DAY TWO

Self-Leadership in IFS [Anderson]

• Therapist parts
• The dimensions of Self-Energy
• Differentiating empathy from compassion

Healing from Within [Anderson]

• The healing process in IFS
• Unloading family of origin and cultural burdens
• Rewiring implicit emotional memory

Repairing the Injuries of Traumatized Child Parts [Fisher]

• Developing internal communication
• Concept of ‘missing experiences’
• Developing client ability to offer reparative experiences to parts
• Welcoming the parts home now

Contrasting Approaches to working with Parts [Fisher, Anderson]

• Sharing reactions to video excerpts
• Discussion of strengths and limitations of each approach
• Participant Q&A

Faculty