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Digital Seminar

Polyvagal-Informed, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy: Healing Complex Trauma Through Compassionate Connection


Speaker:
Alexia Rothman, PhD
Duration:
Approx. 6 Hours
Copyright:
Jan 16, 2025
Product Code:
POS059835
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

No matter what brings a client to your door, difficulty regulating their emotions is at the heart of their struggles.

And if you want to give your clients their best chance at success, you need quick and easy science-backed techniques to calm their emotional state, get them comfortable in their own skin, and ready to do the work alongside you.

That’s where integrating Polyvagal Theory with IFS therapy is a game-changer for your practice!

Dr. Alexia Rothman has received extensive training in Internal Family Systems Therapy from IFS developer Dr. Richard Schwartz and is a Certified Internal Family Systems therapist as well as an IFSI-approved professional consultant. She has assembled the playbook for combining Polyvagal Theory with the power of IFS Therapy to give you a non-pathologizing approach to treatment and facilitate better parts-healing, internal harmony, and connection for your client.

You’ll get:

  • IFS-based strategies for working with parts associated with sympathetic and dorsal survival states
  • User-friendly translations of Polyvagal concepts to IFS terminology
  • Self-anchoring techniques for clients to enhance treatment safety and effectiveness
  • The 3 operating principles of the Autonomic Nervous System and how trauma can impact them

You don’t want to miss this opportunity to expand your skillset and use Polyvagal and IFS therapy techniques more safely and effectively than ever before.

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Dr. Alexia Rothman is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Atlanta, GA, since 2004. She is a trainer for the IFS Institute, a Certified Internal Family Systems therapist, an international speaker and educator on the IFS model, and an IFSI-approved professional consultant. Dr. Rothman offers workshops and retreats on the IFS model throughout the US and internationally. She co-hosts the IFS-informed podcasts IFS Talks and Polyvagal Theory. Dr. Rothman is a United States presidential scholar who graduated summa cum laude from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was an Edwin W. Pauley Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She has held adjunct faculty positions at Emory University and Agnes Scott College. To learn more about her, you can visit her website at dralexiarothman.com.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Alexia Rothman maintains a private practice. She is co-hosts of the podcasts IFS Masters and Explorations in Psychotherapy. She is a paid trainer with the IFS Institute, and she receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Rothman receives compensation as a consultant. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Alexia Rothman is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Georgia Psychological Association, and the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

 


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Objectives

  1. Identify the basic principles of Polyvagal Theory. 
  2. Examine how Polyvagal Theory can help therapists implement IFS more safely and effectively with complex trauma. 
  3. Utilize IFS strategies to shift nervous systems towards regulation. 
  4. Choose interventions to foster relationships with hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts.  
  5. Identify strategies to foster relationships with parts that utilize adaptive survival responses, such as fight, flight, freezing, and numbing, for protection. 
  6. Determine the impact of the therapist’s internal state on clinical work. 

Outline

Fundamentals of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Theory 

  • Structure of the Psyche 
    • Multiplicity of the mind  
    • Parts: Protective and Vulnerable 
    • Burdens 
    • Self

Fundamentals of Polyvagal Theory 

  • Structure and function of the Autonomic Nervous System 
    • The regulated nervous system  
    • Adaptive survival states of the nervous system (fight/flight, freeze, shutdown/numb/collapse) 
    • Impact of trauma on the nervous system 
  • Three operating principles of the Autonomic Nervous System 
    • Neuroception 
    • Hierarchy 
    • Co-Regulation 
  • Fundamental goals of psychotherapy through the lenses of PVT and IFS 

Integration of IFS Theory and Polyvagal Theory 

  • Translation of Polyvagal concepts to IFS terminology and vice versa 
  • The relationship between parts and the nervous system 
  • Self and the nervous system

Polyvagal-Informed IFS Therapy Practice 

  • How can an understanding of Polyvagal Theory underlie and support safer and more effective IFS practice? 
  • The essential contribution of the Self-led, ventrally regulated presence of the therapist  
  • Co-regulation and “internal co-regulation” in IFS therapy 
  • Anchoring the client’s system in Self/ventral to enhance the safety and effectiveness of trauma work 
  • IFS strategies for working with parts associated with sympathetic and dorsal survival states in the nervous system 
  • Analysis of video examples of PVT-informed IFS work
  • Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists 
  • Counselors 
  • Social Workers 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Psychotherapists 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals 

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