IFS-INFORMED EMDR 2-DAY
September 8 & 9
Advanced experiential workshop!
13 CE Advanced Training Program for Mental Health Professionals - $600
Thursday and Friday September 8 & 9
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM US Eastern Time
Crystal Whitlow, Nancy Simons & Bruce Hersey
Provided via Zoom internet video platform. Invitations will be sent via email shortly before event dates.
Certificates of completion will be available for download from CE-Classes.com upon receipt of completed course evaluations and attendance verification, following the ending of the course..
How is this different from the One-Day (6CE) IFS-Informed EMDR?
Limited spaces! Register early.
Program Description
A two-full-day didactic & experiential workshop offering a specific view of ego-states, in the context of EMDR therapy through an IFS lens, regarding their ubiquitous appearance, defenses, & relational phenomena. A conceptual bridge is formed between the two models, yielding additional language to enrich therapist-client communication about the client’s internal process, and much more.
Understand the importance of Self-Presence and the co-presence or activation of a Target Part in relationship to the Self. Cultivate and maintain Functional Dual Attention in the Assessment & Desensitization Phases using measurement scales (beyond SUD & VOC) relating to Self-Energy, state-binding affect & protective intention.
Alignment with Memory Reconsolidation research ala Coherence Therapy for additional precision in targeting underlying implicit memories, to increase the accuracy of identifying and elaborating appropriate positive and negative cognitions in the Assessment Phase.
These methods will be demonstrated live with participant volunteers, and significant supervised practice time is planned for participants to learn by doing.
The content of this course is evidence-based.
There is no known commercial support nor conflict of interest for this program.
Prerequisite
At Syzygy Institute, we require that anyone being trained to integrate the two models are first fully trained in EMDR, and secondly have a fundamental experiential understanding of IFS. Nothing is better for that purpose than Level One Training by the IFS-Institute. We recognize that IFS Level One training is costly, time-consuming, and currently there are substantial waiting lists and lottery systems to get in.
To fill the gap for those EMDR therapists unable to obtain IFS Level One, we have developed Intro to IFS for EMDR Therapists workshop as a basic requirement to fulfill before attending the IFS-Informed EMDR 2-day workshop.
Those EMDR therapists who have started or completed an IFS Level One do not need to take Intro to IFS for EMDR Therapists to qualify for this workshop.
The workshop does not provide training in either model. It assumes participants have knowledge of both. Reading IFS doesn't quite do it sometimes. There is a process aspect to it, and experiential, video, or demo exposure gets that across in a way that reading does not. If you do not meet this requirement, use the time before the workshop to meet the IFS prerequisite.
Our experience has shown that participants with minimal IFS experience struggle to integrate the material, especially in practice exercises. If you haven't already begun to use IFS principles in your practice, you will not optimally benefit from the workshop.
Course Objectives
- Identify one advantageous aspect of the IFS concept of Self that is not explicitly included in EMDR’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) system.
- Explain the relationship between Functional Dual Attention and Self-Presence.
- Describe the concept of energy as it applies to Protective Parts and how this can be measured and processed within EMDR.
- Describe the concept of energy as it applies to qualities of Self and how these can be measured and installed as a resource within EMDR.
- Identify at least one way that IFS language can used in obtaining a NC, PC or VOC.
- Compile an IFS-Informed Assessment Phase target.
- Practice shifting targets from exile to protector, using IFS-Informed scales in Desensitization Phase.
- Describe & practice at least 3 IFS Interweaves in Desensitization Phase.
- Identify a third type of processing (beside resources and desensitization) with bilateral stimulation named after a stage of Coherence Therapy.
- Describe and practice obtaining precise negative cognitions in the Assessment Phase using Coherence Therapy concepts.
- Discuss your relationship with your parts-as-therapist based on the IFS model.
Continuing Education Information
This workshop is approved for 13.0 CE hours by EMDRIA (EC Program Approval Number: #22005-01), and for IFS recertification by the IFS Institute.
This activity is approved by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions, for LMFT professional continuing education.
Syzygy Institute is cosponsoring this course with CE-Classes for the credit types listed below, which includes CE-Classes offering approved continuing education credit for the following:
Continuing Education Credit is approved through CE-Classes as described below:
- This course is NOT available for APA credit
- This course is NOT available for NBCC credit
- This training does offer ASWB ACE credit to social workers (see NJ above).
CE-Classes.com maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CE-Classes.com is approved by:
- Florida Certification Board
- The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #852 BAP-Expires 3/31/2023
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences, BBS, recognizes relevant course work/training that has been approved by nationally recognized certifying bodies, such as APA, to satisfy renewal requirements.
- California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) Provider Number OS-12-147-0223 Expires 02-2023
- The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education
- The Texas Board of Professional Counselors – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education
- Massachusetts Authorization Number: (TBD)
- Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board – Provider # RCST031201
- New York Social Work Board – CE-Classes.com 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-0120.
- The Florida Board of Nursing (CE Provider #: 50-4896) Expires 10/31/2022 Do not send certificates to the Florida Board of Nursing. You must keep this certificate for 4 years.
- The California Board of Registered Nursing. CEP 15647 Expires 11/30/2022.
Meet our trainers:
Bruce Hersey
Bruce Hersey, LCSW, is a Co-Founder of Syzygy Institute and the founder of emdrifs.com, a website for self-learning through prerecorded CE courses on IFS, EMDR, & Coherence Therapy integration.
Bruce is an experienced presenter, and workshop leader, known for his clarity, humor, warmth and humility. He has led and co-led numerous introductory IFS and IFS-Informed EMDR workshops, in-person and online.
An EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Level 3-trained Approved IFS Clinical Consultant, Bruce presented twice at the IFS Annual Conference, AASECT, and EMDR UK.
Bruce has also published short animated educational introduction videos on IFS (Finding Your Parts) and EMDR (EMDR at a Glance) on YouTube.
You can listen to Bruce taking about IFS-Informed EMDR on The Therapy Explained Podcast with James Lloyd, and The One Inside Podcast with Tammy Sollenberger.
Michelle Richardson
Michelle Richardson, MSW, LCSW is the Co-Founder of Syzygy Institute as well as the owner of Mindful Soul Center for Wellbeing, a thriving group practice located in southern New Jersey. There, she specializes in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation in addition to providing clinical supervision and consultation to clinicians in varied stages of their professional journey.
As an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and IFS Level 1 & 2 Therapist, Michelle helps clinicians wade through the often murky and complex waters of psychotherapy towards clarity and confidence in their work. At Syzygy Institute, it is Michelle’s mission to introduce therapists to the place where IFS and EMDR meet to generate lasting healing for their clients. Michelle has additionally been a featured guest on both the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast and The Woman Worriers Podcast, where she speaks about Internal Family Systems therapy, anxiety, and the inner critic.
Elizabeth Venart
As a practitioner, I guide individuals and couples to develop greater compassion for themselves and heal the trauma at the root of where they feel stuck. What results is an experience of greater resiliency, freedom, and joy. My specialties include working with Highly Sensitive persons (HSPs), who are empathic, creative, and intuitive. I have a focus on trauma, anxiety, job burn-out and career transitions.
For nearly ten years, I've worked in non-profit crime victim centers providing individual and group counseling—as well as crisis intervention and critical incident stress management services—to women, children, and men impacted by traumatic grief and crimes of violence.
Through providing supervision and consultation as an LPC Supervisor in Pennsylvania and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, I have supported many therapists seeking to advance their skills and deepen their understanding of trauma and resiliency. Completing IFS Training Levels 1 and 2 has powerfully amplified my abilities in these roles, taking it to a new level just as in my therapy practice.
In addition I founded Montgomery-Bucks (Greater Philadelphia
region) EMDRIA Regional Network and served as Regional Coordinator from
2011 – 2020.
I'm an experienced leader of workshops, trainings and retreats. In these, I've sought to inspire resiliency, healing, growth and laughter. Teaching Laughter Yoga, IFS, EMDR, and IFS-Informed EMDR renews my spirit.
Beau Laviolette
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Baton Rouge, LA, where I happily reside with my wife and two sons. Along with my family, I have counted on my spiritual faith and love of nature to support me in my journey.
As a former United States Marine, I am proudly passionate about serving fellow military veterans on my current path as a professional healer. I co-founded the IFS Healing Corps, an organization that brings IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy) to veterans and active duty military, previously co-founded the Student Veteran Association at Tulane University
(SVAT), and served as president of that body.
Being an EMDR Approved Consultant, Certified IFS Therapist, and IFS-Informed EMDR teacher, trainer, and consultant has enabled me to better help clients and therapists alike to advance in their personal and professional growth and healing. Nothing is more rewarding for me than helping people discover their true potential through education and counseling.
I also have a background as a certified addictions counselor (previously) and am familiar with the burdens those afflictions impose on the addict and their loved ones.
Crystal Whitlow
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in South Bend, Indiana where I reside with my husband, two sons, and three rescue dogs. There, I have a private practice focused on helping adults suffering from complex trauma.
As an experienced EMDR Trainer and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, I've been passionate about teaching advanced trauma therapy skills to mental health professionals. With a background in IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy), I offer IFS-Informed EMDR training and consultation to advanced professionals.
I consider myself a lifelong learner and passionate educator and connector. I attend advanced trainings whenever possible, seeking the most cutting-edge treatments for my clients and to pass along through teaching to my colleagues and community of therapists around the world.
My background includes significant experience in assisting sexual abuse and domestic violence survivors. I've also served as EMDRIA Regional Coordinator for State of Indiana, 2012-2018.
Erik Anderson
I have a small private practice and have worked since 2016 at the University of Michigan's academic medical center, Michigan Medicine, providing counseling services to medical faculty, staff, and their families. Working in this medical environment has yielded unique insight into factors impacting clients working in the medical field and especially common job-related psychological conditions such as burnout, moral distress, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, & suicidality. Helping helpers has its challenges and rewards.
While I am trained in both traditional talk and cognitive behavioral therapies, over the past 8 years I have been drawn towards transformational psychotherapies, particularly Internal Family Service(IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). These models with the right therapist invite a deeper level of healing and change.
Becoming an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Certified IFS Therapist have both contributed to the advancement and fulfillment of my trainer and presenter parts, who keep me nourished and refreshed professionally.
Sam Johnson
I live in central Pennsylvania with my wife and two children. At 4C LTD (my private practice in Clarion, PA), I take pride in Igniting Passion, Manifesting Purpose, & Fostering Growth. The four C's here are (above all) Christian, plus Counseling, Coaching and Consulting. There, my passion and drive is motivating and helping people sharpen and hone in on their goals to make them specific, measurable, and achievable and most importantly attainable. I intend to have a bit of fun along the way.
I have been a mentor and supervisor as an Approved Clinical Supervisor, IFS and EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Additionally, I've been assisting with numerous advanced clinical trainings, even internationally, in IFS, EMDR, Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), while providing independent workshops in these areas as well. I love combining IFS and EMDR in my practice, consultation and training.
I'm a Master Addiction Counselor,and I have some additional professional expertise in Neurofeedback, EFT, Progressive Counting and Brainspotting, among others.
My pursuits include vigorous exercise, reading, and keeping myself spiritually connected and grounded. I am an occasional blogger. I listen to BBC World News regularly and I have been AMAZINGLY blessed to have traveled to every continent except Australia and Antarctica. They are both on my bucket list.
Nancy Simons
From my solo private practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Western Massachusetts, I have been providing trauma treatment, training, and consultation for over 30 years.The resiliency of the human spirit is what inspires me most. I engage in treatment through the combined lenses of EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Self-Compassion Training and the neurobiology of trauma and attachment. Currently, I use IFS-informed EMDR as my primary therapeutic modality. My areas of focus include the treatment of depression and anxiety, dissociative disorders, attachment issues and medical trauma.
I'm a Clinical Supervisor for an In-home therapy program supporting refugee families, with expertise working with refugee communities, utilizing translators to coordinate the delivery of services for trauma treatment and emotional wellness.
I had been the Clinical Director at Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program, overseeing the development of a National Trauma Recovery Network with EMDR clinicians. Additionally, I worked as a clinician in an Integrated Primary Care Practice developing a protocol for treating medically related stress.
I have advanced training in Cultural Competency, Somatic Experiencing, Structural Dissociation and IFS-Informed EMDR.
I am an EMDRIA Approved Consultant & EMDR Trainer, and also offer my own EMDRIA-approved trainings in Self-Compassion for Trauma Treatment. Most recently I have been assisting with IFS-informed EMDR trainings.
Background of Syzygy Institute
Syzygy Institute, a partnership between Bruce Hersey and Michelle Richardson, is the culmination of Bruce's 15 years developing and teaching a systematic integration of the models: IFS-Informed EMDR. It is the mission of Syzygy to provide high quality advanced integrative training in these converging healing models within a connected community atmosphere, and establish a certification program based upon recognized training in both models and progression through advanced integration courses.
EMDR therapists have become familiar with the helpful notion of ego states, which frequently inhabit our workspace when attempting to process traumas with our (quite commonly) complex clients. Many have identified Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a user-friendly comprehensive ego state model, and are eager to learn an integration of EMDR and IFS.
At Syzygy Institute, we require that anyone being trained to integrate the two models are first fully trained in EMDR, and secondly have a fundamental experiential understanding of IFS. Nothing is better for that purpose than Level One Training by the IFS-Institute. We recognize that IFS Level One training is costly, time-consuming, and currently there are substantial waiting lists and lottery systems to get in.
Those EMDR therapists who have started or completed an IFS Level One do not need to take Intro to IFS for EMDR Therapists to qualify for our main course; the IFS-Informed EMDR 2-day workshop.
To fill the gap for those EMDR therapists unable to obtain IFS Level One, we have developed Intro to IFS for EMDR Therapists workshop as a basic requirement to fulfill before attending the IFS-Informed EMDR 2-day workshop.
We then offer an advanced IFS-Informed EMDR course: Discovery & Beyond 2-day IFS-Informed EMDR Advanced Experiential.
Advancing through these workshops with additional approved consultation, in addition to specified requirements in the separate models, will be the path to an IFS-Informed EMDR certification.
Steps of SYZYGY IFS-EMDR Integration Program
Intro to IFS for EMDR Therapists 2-day:
Experiential introduction to IFS model with guided practice. Meets minimal IFS experience requirements to advance to Step Two. Waived with IFS Level One training (which is preferred).
Syzygy Step Two --
IFS-Informed EMDR 2-day: Provides overall integration rationale and systematic strategies, introducing relevant ideas from Coherence Therapy addressing memory reconsolidation. Prerequisite for Step Three.
Syzygy Step Three --
Discovery & Beyond 2-day: Deepens understanding and application of IFS-Informed EMDR in Direct Access conditions; working with blended protectors, further integrating Coherence Therapy concepts.
Accommodations for the Differently Abled
This workshop is held in a facility and/or delivered in a manner that is in compliance with the Americans Disabilities Act. Please contact hello@syzygyinstitute.com if special accommodation is required.
Cancelation and Refund Policy
Registration may be transferred to a specific later offering of the same workshop, if space is available, for a $60 service fee until 30 days prior to workshop, and thereafter is $100.
Grievance Policy
All grievances must be in writing to hello@syzygyinstitute.com, and will be replied to within 5 - 10 business days.
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