Scott Zotto
Description: IFS Therapy offers clinicians of all orientations an unique, non-pathologizing perspective that can integrate with varied models for understanding and treating clients. This workshop will present basic concepts of the IFS model, which holds a central belief that everyone has an essential, healthy “Self” along with “parts” that are either vulnerable or have protective intentions. IFS enhances awareness of our clients’ present-day distress/symptoms and the life experiences that have prompted parts to develop in their ways.
This workshop will introduce interventions for engaging entrenched protector parts that can create “resistance” and “stuckness” in therapy. A clinical example will illustrate these concepts, and a detailed handout will be provided.
B. Learning objectives for each session (additional information re: learning objectives can be found here)
Participants will be able to:
1- Identify the core concepts of IFS – Self and parts
2- Identify the three categories of parts in IFS
3- Listen and begin to intervene when protective/defensive parts arise in therapy
Skills / Knowledge
- IFS
- Therapy
- Social Work