NICABM – An IFS Approach To Protector Parts

IFS and Protector Parts: Richard Schwartz on Why (and How) to Work with Your Client’s Defenses

After trauma, a lot of the challenges clients face come from how they protect themselves from the pain.

So how do we work with those defenses?

Well, Internal Family Systems (IFS) can provide a particularly effective framework. In fact, it’s designed to help those defensive parts, or “protectors,” become our allies in therapy.

This is especially important when a client’s defenses are extreme.

That’s why we’ve partnered with Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of IFS, to bring you . . .

An IFS Approach to Protector Parts

In this workshop, Richard Schwartz, PhD will share how you can skillfully defuse your client’s defenses and turn their protector parts into allies in the healing process.

Here’s some of what he’ll get into:

• How to identify and understand the protective function of your client’s defenses
• Strategies to build trust and rapport with your client’s “protector parts”
• How to help clients turn defensive reactions into healthy behaviors
• How to safely work with the trauma beneath a client’s defenses
• How to shift the shame and self-blame clients carry about their defenses

About Richard Schwartz, PhD

Richard Schwartz, PhD is the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS).
IFS is a non-pathologizing, transformative model of therapy that has been adopted by many psychotherapists, and was hailed by Bessel van der Kolk as “the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively.”

Dr. Schwartz developed the IFS model in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He found that when the parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, clients would feel more confident, open, and compassionate.

Dr. Schwartz is a featured speaker for national professional organizations. He has published five books and over fifty articles about IFS.

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