By incorporating IFS skills and techniques into your couples therapy practice, you'll empower your clients to access their inner wisdom, heal emotional wounds, and cultivate greater self-awareness and compassion. This deeper understanding of themselves and their partners can lead to more authentic communication, increased empathy, and the resolution of longstanding conflicts. Ultimately, your clients will experience greater intimacy, connection, and fulfillment in their relationship. Additionally, the benefits of mastering IFS techniques can lead to increased client satisfaction, referrals, and ultimately, a more fulfilling and successful therapy practice.
When people don't understand themselves, they can't understand their partners.
And so many couples become outwardly focused, fixated on what "they" are doing wrong or how "they" are responsible.
In this relentless dance of blame, frustration and distance, they lose sight of how their inner landscapes contribute to the problems in their relationships — and you end up struggling to move them past surface-level conflicts that have nothing to do with the root of their issues.
But IFS therapy changes everything.
Because with the IFS model, you can guide clients to understand and embrace their many inner parts — each with its own story and needs. And when couples start to understand themselves and each other on a deeper level a whole new world of vulnerability, compassion, and healing opens up.
$599.97
Value
Just $329.98!
Earn up to 15.0 CE hours
This course includes:
- On-demand video
- Downloadable Resources
- Unlimited access
And now, this online course makes bringing IFS therapy techniques into your couples' work simple, so you can start seeing incredible results in your own practice right away.
You'll join Dr. Mona Barbera, Certified IFS Therapist and award-winning author who has decades using and teaching the Internal Family Systems model, Certified IFS Therapist Stacy Ruse, and Certified Sex Therapist and Certified IFS Therapist Patty Rich, whose work has been praised by IFS therapy developer Dr. Richard Schwartz, PhD.
Together they'll provide you with a start-to-finish learning experience that will show you exactly how to use IFS therapy tools to work with clients' protective and wounded parts to end cycles of conflict, make remarkable improvements in the ways couples communicate, and enhance their intimacy, sexual pleasure, and connection.
If you work with couples, or any clients looking to improve their relationships, this is one course you can't afford to miss.
So don't wait. Register now.
making couples work more impactful and fulfilling for your clients and yourself
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On-demand video
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Earn up to 15.0 CE Hours
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Downloadable Resources
The Complete IFS Therapy for Couples Course
Parts Work Approaches for Reconnection, Deeper Intimacy, Better Sex, and More$599.97 Total Value — Just $329.98 Today!
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Your IFS Couples Therapy Curriculum
Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy:
Core Principles, Skills and Integration Considerations for Clinical Practice
![Stacy Ruse](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/fbb9xfvjtkkz2trl4c3cq.png)
- Introduction to the IFS Model
- Inclusivity, cultural humility, and competency
- The core self and how to distinguish self from parts
- Managers: the proactive parts
- Firefighters: the reactive parts
- Exiles: the wounded & shadowed parts
- Unblending the system for emotional regulation
- Shifting to the inner story & connection
- Video demo — IFS therapy in action
- And much more!
Applying the IFS Model in Couples Therapy:
Working with Inner Parts for Reconnection and Deeper Intimacy
![Mona Barbera](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/tpdvbyev3uexy8x8lx221g.png)
- The role of the therapist in guiding couples
- How to determine if partners are able to benefit from IFS couples therapy
- Create IFS therapy-informed treatment plans for couples
- Recreate the problem in real-time in the therapy room
- Avoid unsuccessful, draining, or unfocused sessions
- How partners' inner systems interact
- Inner parts that may contribute to relationship issues
- Establish appreciative relationships with protectors
- Healing exiles
- IFS therapy strategies to identify and communicate needs, fears, and concerns
- Use IFS therapy to facilitate trauma-informed couples therapy
- Case studies and practical examples
- And much more!
Self-Led Sexuality through IFS Therapy:
A Parts Work Approach for Healing, Intimacy, Pleasure and Connection
![Patricia Rich](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/ffwhgcbjmkkfuxcddgo21g.png)
- Exploring Sexuality through the Lens of IFS
- Common barriers for clients and clinicians
- The integrative Self-Led Sexuality model
- Roles protector parts take on in the internal sexual system
- Exiles, sexual burdens, and how they accrue
- Self Energy can heal and harmonize the system
- Body parts and processes as part of the system
- Accessing your own Self Energy
- Befriending your own sexual system
- And much more!
Parts Work Approaches for Reconnection, Deeper Intimacy, Better Sex, and More
$599.97 Total Value — Just $329.98 Today!
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![Richard Schwartz](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/iepliy3hauuzjktj3ypdw.png)
"There are few issues that trigger our parts more than sex. There is no one who has provided a better map to lift us out of that morass and into Self-led bliss than Patty Rich."
![Mona Barbera](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/tpdvbyev3uexy8x8lx221g.png)
Click here for information about Mona Barbera
Click here for information about Stacy Ruse
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![Patricia Rich](https://cdn.pesi23.com/images/ffwhgcbjmkkfuxcddgo21g.png)
Click here for information about Patricia Rich
By incorporating IFS skills and techniques into your couples therapy practice, you'll empower your clients to access their inner wisdom, heal emotional wounds, and cultivate greater self-awareness and compassion. This deeper understanding of themselves and their partners can lead to more authentic communication, increased empathy, and the resolution of longstanding conflicts. Ultimately, your clients will experience greater intimacy, connection, and fulfillment in their relationship. Additionally, the benefits of mastering IFS techniques can lead to increased client satisfaction, referrals, and ultimately, a more fulfilling and successful therapy practice.
No. The course is designed to accommodate therapists with varying levels of experience. Whether you're completely new to IFS therapy or already familiar with it, the course will provide comprehensive training and practical tools to integrate IFS principles into your couples therapy practice effectively.
Yes. IFS therapy is designed to complement rather than replace existing therapeutic modalities. Its non-pathologizing framework and focus on inner healing and self-awareness can enhance any therapeutic approach. Many therapists find that integrating IFS techniques enriches their practice and enables them to better meet the diverse needs of their clients, including couples seeking therapy.
No, this course is not associated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or IFS Institute certification.
But here's the good news. As a licensed professional you get to choose how to approach your continuing education, learn new treatment techniques, and which courses align best with your goals and budget as a practitioner. And of course, it is you who must determine if you are ready and capable of using specific approaches with your clients. This course is led by experienced professionals who bring a wealth of IFS therapy experience to the table ensuring that you receive not only theoretical insights but also skills and techniques that can be immediately integrated into your practice.
Parts Work Approaches for Reconnection, Deeper Intimacy, Better Sex, and More
$599.97 Total Value — Just $329.98 Today!
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.