The EMDR+IFS PARTS Protocol integrates the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model with EMDR Psychotherapy. As EMDRIA describes the integration, the overlay of the two models allows for "a more permission-focused approach to trauma healing. EMDR remains the foundational structure upon which the healing occurs, and the IFS model is the creative, permissive, and curiosity-driven process to prepare clients for trauma processing.​ This IFS-informed approach allows the clinician to gain permission from a client’s protective system, especially when struggling with standard protocol."

 

Throughout this training, you will:

- Identify key concepts and intersecting theoretical principles of the EMDR and IFS models

- Gain language to be able to explain the role of EMDR and IFS in processing and resolving traumatic memory

- Identify why a multi-intervention approach is needed for relational, developmental and complex trauma

- Identify benefits and limitations of integrating EMDR and IFS into a single-model approach

- Learn when to integrate and when to use stand alone models

- Learn step by step treatment planning and integration techniques

- Learn a non-pathologizing approach to addressing blocking beliefs, looping and resistance that honor’s the client’s protective system and innate drive to survive

- Increase your capacity to lead clients through the healing process through focusing on your own presence and Self-energy in the space

- PRACTICE integrating the models in a safe and encouraging environment