Using Internal Family Systems for Therapist Self-Care
Presented by Daphne Fatter, PhD on 04-19-2022 at 9 a.m. Pacific (noon Eastern) to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary demands on mental health providers. This has created a perfect storm for therapist burnout, vicarious trauma, and countertransference reactions. Internal Family Systems (IFS), developed by Richard Schwartz, PhD, is a non-pathologizing, evidenced-based approach to psychotherapy that can be used by therapists to support self-care.
In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the basic model of IFS, its theoretical assumptions, its view of the therapeutic relationship, and the goals for IFS treatment. Dr. Fatter will apply an IFS framework to invite therapists to work with our own parts to explore the three types of parts in IFS. This webinar will include case examples of therapists’ inner systems to describe the process of applying IFS to our own systems for self-care. Dr. Fatter will guide several experiential exercises to demonstrate one of the most important first steps in the IFS model. Guided experientials will invite clinicians to have increased awareness of their own “helper” and “therapist” parts for our own self-care and burnout prevention.
This introductory web conference will help mental health clinicians:
- Describe assumptions of Internal Family Systems (IFS) theory.
- Report the view of the therapeutic relationship according to IFS.
- Explain how to use IFS for therapist self-care.
- Examine one's own parts through an experiential exercise to familiarize oneself with the IFS model.
- Identify one's own “helper” parts and what they need for self-care via applying IFS techniques to one's own internal system.
Statement of program material’s accuracy, utility, and risks: The content of this webinar is accurate and up to date with industry standards. Its utility is very relevant and applicable for all clinicians. There are no known risks of the course content presented other than participants may increase their self-awareness of their own “parts” which may be activating.
Declaration of any conflict of interest: None indicated.
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Continuing Education (CE) Information
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Meet the Presenter
Daphne Fatter, PhD
Daphne Fatter, PhD is a mid-career licensed psychologist and consultant. She earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the Trauma Center, under the direct supervision of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD.
Dr. Fatter is Certified in EMDR and is a Certified Internal Family System (IFS) therapist and an approved IFS clinical consultant. She has applied IFS in treating PTSD and complex trauma while serving as the Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at the Fort Worth Veteran Affairs Outpatient clinic and in her current private practice in Dallas, Texas. Please see daphnefatterphd.com for her current offerings.
Continuing Education Provider Approvals
GoodTherapy.org is Approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GoodTherapy.org has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6380. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GoodTherapy.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/30/2022 - 03/30/2025.- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
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