Included in Session 1:
All the Basics! (3-hours)
How to read the room, taught step-by-step
How to lend Self-energy: Do’s and don’ts
How to build a ‘we’ container, where the therapist is ‘in’ the room (yes, sometimes it’s a necessary step!)
How to work with your confused, fraudulent, and overwhelmed therapist parts
Targeted psychoeducation: Support for clients’ thinking managers
5 Parts to Start: Fight, flight, freeze, attach/submit, inner critic
When more skills are needed: DDNOS and DID
Lecture, recorded experiential exercises
Session 2:
Implicit and Explicit Direct Access: Essential Skills (3-hours)
This class will cover implicit and explicit direct access, skills which many clinicians have trouble with, but are so important for complex systems! When to use them, how to use them effectively, as well as the common therapist parts that interfere with their use.
Lecture, recorded live demos, recorded Q & A
Session 3:
Implicit and Explicit Direct Access: Final Thoughts (1-hour)
This final class offers a high-level review of the previous two classes, things to remember and practice, as well as Q & A which tie the whole course together.
Colleen West, LMFT, IFS Clinical Consultant I have twenty years of training and experience resolving simple and complex trauma, and more than a decade training and supporting clinicians, which I love doing. I strive to be antiracist and culturally aware. I am an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent affirming consultant. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and consult nationally and internationally. I am the author of The IFS Flip Chart and We All Have Parts.
