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Trauma blocks Love.
Love heals trauma.

Trauma activates an internal cascade of reactions that blocks love, connection, and creativity; and in turn, love has the power to transcend trauma, heal our pain, and reconnect us to our Self, our source, and to each other.

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The Arc of Healing

Trauma Informed Emotional Health:
Incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Concepts into Trauma Treatment

Learn how to safely identify and work with someone who has gone through an overwhelming life experience. How to know when it’s ok to proceed and when you will need to refer them out. Learn how to monitor and track the parts within your clients, as well as the activated parts that can show up within yourself. Discover the key components to releasing trauma and how to safely navigate being with vulnerability when somebody has been relationally violated.

  • Lesson 1: Working with Protective Parts (60 mins)
  • Lesson 2: Discovering Self Energy (60 mins)
  • Lesson 3: Releasing Painful Experiences (60 mins)

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Resilience and Forgiveness

What allows us to stay calm, present, and move through all that is present in the world today? Why do some of us thrive in adversity while others slip into depression and substance use?

Watch this free webinar as I discuss some of the main components of resilience and forgiveness to better help yourself and your clients move beyond adversity.

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Transcending Trauma

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma.

The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.

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Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.

Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach -- rooted in neuroscience -- IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. Easy to read and highly practical.

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Healing From Trauma

Rare, In-Depth Interviews With Leading Trauma Expert Dr. Frank Anderson Reveal An Inside Look Into The IFS-Informed Approach To Trauma Therapy

Created With Everyday People In Mind, You’ll Uncover New And Powerful Insights Not Found Anywhere Else.

If you’d like to take a deep dive into what it takes to heal from a traumatic experience in a way that is profound yet practical…

And you’d like to hear about this from one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject…

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Forest Frank

Teacher. Author. Healer.

Committed to promoting compassion, hope, healing and non-violence in the world, Dr. Anderson specializes in understanding and treating the effects of psychic pain and trauma. Unique as both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

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A crucial contribution that brings clarity and light to the often dark, confusing journey of treating complex PTSD.

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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