Internal Family Services Level 1

Internal Family Systems sm (IFS) Therapy

Releasing the Self: Paths to Inner Healing

Developed by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D. over the past 35 years, the IFS model is a sensitive, yet powerful method to enter and bring balance and healing to people’s inner worlds. IFS therapists’ help clients quickly locate and differentiate their Self, releasing a core of valuable leadership qualities that can reorganize and harmonize their internal family of sub-personalities or “parts.” In this way, clients form compassionate, trusting relationships with their parts, often resulting in a peace and unity that produces dramatic changes in their symptoms and interactions with others. As therapists learn to trust their clients’ innate wisdom and self-healing, they feel a sense of relief and release, and a new joy in the healing partnership.

The Power of the IFS Model

Internal Family SystemsSM is at the forefront of a movement toward a more collaborative therapeutic approach that relies on clients’ intuitive wisdom. IFSSM offers a clear, non-pathologizing, and empowering view of human cognitive and emotional life and provides a dynamic therapeutic approach that allows both therapist and client to enter into a transformational relationship in which healing can occur.

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, has been developing the IFS model for more than 30 years, with IFS now practiced by thousands of licensed therapists and other professionals throughout the United States and internationally. Mental health care professionals and others trained in the IFS model can easily integrate it into a wide variety of practices using the unique methods IFS offers to create safe environments for clients to become Self- transforming.

Internal Family Systems therapy is a simple yet sophisticated integration of psychology, spirituality, and intra-psychic and family systems theory that:
•Works well with couples, families, groups, and children;
•Can effectively treat trauma;
•Is a client-led approach that respects each client’s pace and goals;
•Establishes a productive, trusting, and collaborative partnership between therapist and client;
•Helps therapists remain centered and open-hearted.

 

“Richard Schwartz’s description of the inner world of the psyche is the clearest and most useful I have ever encountered…”

Participants will:

•Understand the conceptual basis of the IFS model.

•Practice the skills of and develop proficiency in the model.
•Learn to avoid common mistakes and to correct them if they occur.
•Take advantage of the opportunities the model offers for personal and spiritual development of the therapist.

* The IFS Level I program at CCSU is licensed by the Center for Self Leadership to provide the required training experience for IFS Certification.

“Important and timely…Schwartz shows not only how this model may be applied to individuals and families, but also to understanding and changing broader human systems at the level of culture and society.”

David L. Calof, Editor-in-Chief Treating Abuse Today

Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT is a Professor in the Department of Counseling and Family Therapy at Central Connecticut State University where he is director of the Master’s program in Marriage and Family Therapy and coordinates the Internal Family Systems Continuing Education Program. He is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Self Leadership, an IFS-oriented professional publication. As a licensed psychologist and Marriage and Family therapist, Ralph has a private practice in West Hartford, CT, providing IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Ralph is an IFS Lead Trainer.

Registration and Fees: The cost of the IFS training is $3,800. Payment plans are available to pay in installments over the training period. A limited number of graduate student and alumni slots at a reduced fee of $2,500 are available with student ID. Discounts of 15% are also available (3 or more). Contact CE Coordinator, Judy Ratcliffe at 860-832-2276 for more information.

Please note: Tuition is set for the training as a whole, not by individual days or weekends. Once registered, participants are responsible for full payment for the training program.

Space is limited to 36 participants. Applications will be evaluated as they are received. Slots are filled on a first-come, first served basis. After the slots are filled, names will be placed on a waiting list in the order that their application was received. The program reserves the right to hold a limited number of slots for faculty and other special cases. This training is for professionals in the Human Services fields and is a non-credit continuing education program.

Application Deadline: 9/15/19

CE Credits: Central Connecticut State University, a regionally- accredited institution, provides non-credit Continuing Education programs and courses for professionals. This course, designated as MFTP 610, counts for 108 contact hours. This program has also been approved for Continuing Education credit hours by the National Association of Social Workers, Connecticut and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work licensure renwal. A Certificate of Completion is provided at the end of the program.

A $200 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place in the training, which is applied to the tuition. In the event that all spaces are filled, your deposit will be returned to you.

Once on the website, scroll down to the bottom and click on the button to set up a registration account and follow the instructions. You will be asked to create a Username and a password. You will be able to apply to the program and pay the $200 deposit via credit card. In addition, you will need to submit a resume via e-mail to the IFS Program Coordinator, Dr. Ralph Cohen at cohenr@ccsu.edu. Once you are approved, then we’ll add the balance of the fee to your account and set up a payment plan if you wish.

This training is for professionals in the Human Services fields and is a non-credit continuing education program.

CE Credits: Central Connecticut State University, a regionally- accredited institution, provides non-credit Continuing Education programs and courses for professionals. This course, designated as MFTP 610, counts for 108 contact hours. This program has also been approved for Continuing Education credit hours by the National Association of Social Workers, Connecticut and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work licensure renwal. A Certificate of Completion is provided at the end of the program.

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Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06053
Room: TBD

The program is a 108-hour experience, which takes place for six, 3-day weekends during a one-year period, spaced approximately 2 months apart.

Dates:  

Weekend #1: 1/8/21 – 1/10/21

Weekend #2:  2/26/21 – 2/28/21

Weekend #3:  4/9/21 – 4/11/21

Weekend #4:   5/7/21 – 5/9/21

Weekend #5:   6/11/21 – 6/13/21

Weekend #6:   7/9/21 – 7/11/21

Times:

The sessions are:

Fridays, 9:30 am—6:00 pm;

Saturdays, 9:30 am—6:00 pm;

Sundays, 9:00 am—1:00 pm.

The format includes lecture/discussion, video review, experiential exercises, and small group practice. The program is open to professionals in mental health and human service fields.  During this pandemic the program will be available online.

Format:

The format includes lecture/discussion, video review, experiential exercises, and small group practice. The program is open to professionals in mental health and human service fields.

Registration and Fees:

The cost of the IFS training is $3,450. Payment plans are available to pay in installments over the training period.  A limited number of graduate student and alumni slots at a reduced fee of $2,500 are available with student ID.  Discounts of 15% are also available (3 or more). 

Please note: Tuition is set for the training as a whole, not by individual days or weekends. Once registered, participants are responsible for full payment for the training program.

Space is limited to 36 participants. Applications will be evaluated as they are received. Slots are filled on a first-come, first served basis. After the slots are filled, names will be placed on a waiting list in the order that their application was received. The program reserves the right to hold a limited number of slots for faculty and other special cases.

Contact:

Contact CE Coordinator, Judy Ratcliffe at 860-832-2276 or jratcliffe@ccsu.edu for more information.

Ralph Cohen, PhD, LMFT is a Professor in the Department of Counseling and Family Therapy at Central Connecticut State University where he is director of the Master’s program in Marriage and Family Therapy and coordinates the Internal Family Systems Continuing Education Program. He is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Self Leadership, an IFS-oriented professional publication. As a licensed psychologist and Marriage and Family therapist, Ralph has a private practice in West Hartford, CT, providing IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Ralph is an IFS Lead Trainer.