Internal Family Systems is an evidenced-based therapeutic model that views the multiplicity of the mind as our natural state. It works to heal the parts of ourselves that have developed maladaptive behaviors as protective strategies for our internal pain and shame.
Participants in this workshop will be exposed to an overview of the model, its history and development, and some basic tools for how to utilize a client’s innate healing energy to transform their inner system.
This full-day training will be both didactic and experiential, and offer participants an opportunity to understand their own internal system as a means to aid their clients.
Following this workshop, participants will have the ability to:
- Identify the difference between protective parts and exiles
- Name at least eight qualities of Self and how to identify it in their client’s system
- Translate symptoms into parts language
- Understand how to map their client’s system and identify a target part
- Understand at least two techniques to assist clients when their clients experience overwhelm, dissociation and/or dysregulation
-Identify the two ways to access a client’s system: through insight or direct access
- Identify the difference between proactive and reactive parts
- Name the 8 steps of healing extreme parts
- Identify when they are doing therapy from their own parts and when they are in Self-energy
Jory Agate, LMHC, MDiv., MA, IFS Certified, is an Internal Family Systems therapist, trainer, and consultant with a private practice in Cambridge, MA. Jory is committed to creating a collaborative clinical space that honors the cultural uniqueness of her clients. She specializes in treating trauma without pathologizing individuals for the creative ways they may have learned to cope. Jory had previous careers as a Unitarian Universalist minister and Sign Language interpreter/Deaf educator in the US and abroad. She works in English and ASL with hearing and Deaf individuals, families, couples, clergy, staff teams, and parents of individuals with major mental illness. Jory is a trainer/presenter for the IFS Institute, PESI, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). In addition to her private practice, she provides training and consultation in IFS therapy, cultural agility, sexuality education, leadership development, and group dynamics. The mother of two young adults, one hearing and one Deaf, she lives with her wife and their pandemic puppy in Cambridge, MA.
