Upcoming Events
Audacious Joy ( Therapist Edition)
Audacious Joy is a 90-minute virtual gathering for therapists and mental health clinicians — and it is unlike anything on your CE calendar. We are not here to unpack all that is wrong, violent, traumatic, or unjust. We are not here to process, analyze, or optimize. We are here to remember who we are and how it feels when joy is felt.
This is a space where you show up as a human being who deserves joy just as much as anyone you have ever served.
We know it can feel strange — even indulgent — to choose joy when so much is broken, when your caseload is heavy, when the world keeps asking more of you than it gives back. We are inviting you to do it anyway. Not as an escape. As an act of resistance and reclamation.
Using music, breath, and movement, we will locate joy we will practice collective softness together, in a space with no hierarchy and no clinical processing. Just presence. Just pleasure. Just you.
This space was designed with BIPOC and Global Majority clinicians, liberation-centered practitioners, and therapists doing justice-oriented work especially in mind — those who carry the weight of the world's pain and their own, often without a place to set it down. You are seen here. You are welcome here.
What to Expect
Arrival & Grounding
Joy Practice
Embodied Joy Reflection
Closing Ritual
Register here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260575302400142
Behind the Therapy Chair: The Parts We Don't Talk About
Register and Learn More Here: https://ssw.unc.edu/event/behind-the-therapy-chair-the-parts-we-dont-talk-about-w-tasha-hunter-lcsw/
Clinicians carry more than the stories of the people they serve—they also carry their own history, systemic pressures, and the unspoken emotional weight of the work. Yet, in the field of social work and mental health, we rarely make space to explore the clinician’s inner life. This 3-day, experiential training uses the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to help social workers and mental health professionals identify, map, and tend to the “parts” that emerge in professional practice. Participants will explore parts that develop early in a clinician’s career, those that surface during burnout, moral injury, and vicarious trauma, and the often-unspoken parts that appear in moments of rupture, self-doubt, loneliness, and systemic strain.
Through a combination of didactic teaching, guided meditations, structured reflection, and experiential breakout groups, participants will:
Identify clinician parts activated by challenging clinical situations, systemic inequities, and personal life events.
Practice skills for unblending from activated parts and connecting to Self-energy in the moment.
Explore how to tend to exiled parts carrying the emotional residue of client stories.
Name and normalize experiences often left unspoken in the field, including grief, frustration, ethical dilemmas, identity fatigue, and financial strain.
Develop sustainable, values-aligned practices for maintaining longevity and integrity in the work.
This training offers a safe, compassionate space to acknowledge what it means to be a helping professional today—and to leave with greater clarity, self-compassion, and connection to the “why” that brought you to this work.
Format:
The course blends short lectures, large group discussions, guided meditations, journaling, and small group experiential exercises. The training emphasizes participant choice, emotional pacing, and the creation of a supportive learning environment.
2026 Mentorship Pod
Dates
We will meet on the following dates:
March 9th, 2026 from 2:00 PM–3:30 PM EST
April 13th, 2026
May 11th, 2026
June 1st, 2026
Group Structure
This mentorship pod meets monthly for four sessions. Each session is 90 minutes. Group size is intentionally limited to 8 participants to ensure depth, connection, and individualized support.
Who This Is For
This space is designed for new clinicians seeking grounding and guidance as well as seasoned clinicians looking for community and support. It is an LGBTQIA-led and neuroexpansive-led space open to all mental health professionals who want to decolonize their work, explore their clinical identity, and receive support around private practice, purpose, and sustainability. Clinicians exploring expansion in their career, marketing, creative offerings, or trauma-informed community work will find this space especially beneficial.
Beyond the Block: Navigating Resistance, Shutdown, and Stuck Points —More details to come.
Beyond the Block: Navigating Stuck Points in Clinical Work (Part 2) Date: Monday, April 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Cost: $65 Format: Live Virtual Training via Zoom CEUs: No CEUs offered | Certificate of Completion provided upon submission of Post-Training Evaluation
This expanded, three-hour training picks up where Part 1 left off—going deeper into each stuck point, making space for live demonstration, and creating room for your real clinical questions. Drawing from trauma-informed frameworks, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and anti-oppressive clinical practice, we'll explore the forces that create shutdown, resistance, and therapeutic impasse—and what it actually takes to move through them.
This time, we're also naming what often goes unspoken: the clients whose self-awareness and cognitive sophistication can mask their own stuckness, the clinicians who miss what they can't yet see, and the neurodivergent presentations—diagnosed and undiagnosed—that quietly drive some of the most challenging clinical moments in the room.
Learn More and Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260573989690172
NASW NC Virtual Clinical Social Work Institute
My Topic will be Holding the Weight Together: Radical Imagination for Social Work Practice
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN for medical and mental health professionals
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Registration Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260493609184160
Locating Self IFS-Rooted Workshop
Locating Self is an experiential and didactic continuing education training that reimagines the Internal Family Systems (IFS) concept of Self through ancestral memory, intersectional identity, and liberatory practice.
Participants will explore how race, queerness, gender, spirituality, systemic oppression, and cultural inheritance shape access to Self-energy — in both clinicians and the clients they serve. This training is designed for mental health professionals who want to deepen their clinical practice while remaining accountable to social justice, embodiment, and collective healing.
This Training Integrates:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Theory
Intersectionality & Social Location Frameworks
Ancestral & Embodied Healing Perspectives
Liberatory & Anti-Oppressive Clinical Application
Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260545256196159
The Pleasure Principle
A Virtual CEU Event— details are coming soon. Be sure to subscribe to my website to stay connected and follow me on IG or LinkedIn.
ECARE IFS Certification Training
Stay Tuned for updates and visit ECare.com where the training will be listed.
Coming Back to Life: Healing Suicidal Parts
Coming Back to Life: Holding the Suicidal Part with Compassion
A Three-Day Experiential Training for Mental Health Clinicians
Tentative Schedule: Monday-Wednesday @ 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST
This training invites clinicians into a radically different relationship with suicidality. Rooted in Internal Family Systems, decolonized practice, and the facilitator's own lived experience with suicidal parts. This training is about more than risk assessments, checklists, and safety plans. This is a training about how to be human with someone whose parts have decided that life is no longer bearable.
Over three days, you will explore the identity and protective logic of suicidal parts across the lifespan — from children to elders. You will practice embodied, Self-led clinical responses. You will tend to your own grief, burnout, and despairing parts. And you will be held in community while you do it.
40% experiential. ancestral somatic practices, movement, breathwork, journaling, partner exercises, and a closing healing circle. Neurodivergent-affirming. 12 CE hours.
Standard Rate: $475 Community Liberation Rate (Black & Global Majority): $400 Early Bird: $50 off (60+ days before event) 3 full scholarships available per cohort
Want to go deeper? Add the Clinician's Circle — a 6-week post-training healing group for clinicians who want continued support. Bundle pricing available.
Facilitated by Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW — Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist | IFS Approved Consultant
Stay tuned for more details.
Embodying Erotic Power: Using Intuition, Curiosity, and Compassion to Reclaim Ourselves
https://www.witchytherapists.com/
Embodying Erotic Power: Using Intuition, Curiosity, and Compassion to Reclaim Ourselves (Saturday, 2/28 at 11:15am EST)
In this workshop, we’ll explore the intersection of feminine erotic power and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to reclaim and honor our most sacred intuitive wisdom. Through the lens of Black, queer, and feminist poets and writers, we’ll engage in practices that center erotic power as life force, the importance of befriending intuition, and meeting fear with compassion. Together, we’ll learn how curiosity can become one of our most powerful tools for healing, transformation, and stepping into a life of abundance and ease.
Using IFS, we will explore how our parts—including our protectors and exiles—hold keys to unlocking the deeper truths of our bodies, desires, and creativity. By integrating IFS with practices of erotic wisdom and intuition, we’ll begin to embody our truths and activate a life of self-liberation.
This session is an invitation to slow down, feel deeply, and use the wisdom of your body and mind to reconnect with the power that lies within you, and learn to move through the world with presence, curiosity, and compassion.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN for medical and mental health professionals
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Register here!
IFS Group Consultation
IFS Consultation for IFS Level 1 Graduates. We will meet for 5 sessions/90 minutes each. Come prepared to discuss the following:
How to help your clinician parts
Case Consultation
Model Q&A
Addressing IFSI PA Preparation
Parts Wounded in the IFSI Community
How to decolonize the model and make it culturally relevant for your community
The dates we meet will be February 9th, 2026, February 23rd. March 2nd, March 16th, March 23rd @ 2PM-3:30PM EST
Beyond Good Intentions: Recognizing & Repairing Implicit Bias for Therapists 3CEUS
As therapists, many of us strive to be inclusive and affirming—but the truth is, we’ve all internalized messages from a world shaped by racism, sexism, homophobia, fatphobia, and other systems of oppression. These messages don’t disappear at the therapy room door. In this workshop, Tasha Hunter, LCSW, invites participants into a reflective, non-shaming space to explore how implicit bias shows up in clinical work—and what we can do to repair and reconnect when it does.
Through the lens of trauma-informed care, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and lived experience, Tasha Hunter guides participants in identifying subtle ways bias can emerge—through language, tone, assumptions, and silence. This is not about getting it perfect—it’s about staying present, being accountable, and returning to a relationship when harm has occurred. Participants will leave with greater awareness, practical strategies, and the courage to keep showing up with humility and care.
Unspoken Wounds: Reclaiming Voice, Reality, and Self After Covert Trauma
https://therapywisdom.com/the-trauma-wisdom-circle/
This training is designed to equip clinicians with a deeper understanding of covert trauma and its profound impact on a client’s sense of self, reality, and emotional safety. Drawing from her expertise, Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW, guides participants in recognizing the subtle yet pervasive patterns of emotional minimization, gaslighting, and relational erasure that often go unseen in clinical settings. The educational goal of this presentation is to strengthen clinicians’ ability to identify covert trauma, apply culturally responsive and anti-oppressive
IFS interventions, support clients in rebuilding embodied self-trust and boundary clarity, and integrate consent-based practices that honor agency and emotional sovereignty. Ultimately, participants will leave with increased confidence and competence in addressing invisible wounds through a trauma-informed, inclusive, and liberation-centered lens.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN (2nd event)
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Black IFS Collaborative Professional Will conversation ( 2nd EVENT)
This free event is designed for therapists who:
Have been meaning to create a professional will but don’t know where to begin.
Feel parts of themselves resist the conversation because of fear, discomfort, or superstition.
Worry about what will happen to their clients, their notes, or their practice if something unexpected occurs.
Carry parts that think about death often but feel they have no safe place to bring these thoughts.
Need community and support while navigating a topic that often feels too heavy to carry alone.
Together we’ll:
Normalize the fears and protective parts that arise when facing mortality.
Explore compassionate, anti-oppressive ways of approaching professional will-making.
Share practical steps and resources to help you clarify what to include.
Create space for reflection and grounding, so you leave feeling supported rather than overwhelmed.
This is not about “getting it all done in one sitting.” It’s about starting the conversation, honoring the parts of you that are afraid, the parts that are preoccupied with death, and finding a way forward with clarity and care.
Black IFS Collaborative Professional Will conversation
This free event is designed for therapists who:
Have been meaning to create a professional will but don’t know where to begin.
Feel parts of themselves resist the conversation because of fear, discomfort, or superstition.
Worry about what will happen to their clients, their notes, or their practice if something unexpected occurs.
Carry parts that think about death often but feel they have no safe place to bring these thoughts.
Need community and support while navigating a topic that often feels too heavy to carry alone.
Together we’ll:
Normalize the fears and protective parts that arise when facing mortality.
Explore compassionate, anti-oppressive ways of approaching professional will-making.
Share practical steps and resources to help you clarify what to include.
Create space for reflection and grounding, so you leave feeling supported rather than overwhelmed.
This is not about “getting it all done in one sitting.” It’s about starting the conversation, honoring the parts of you that are afraid, the parts that are preoccupied with death, and finding a way forward with clarity and care.
Burn Out IFS Group Consultation
This special reduced-fee group is for clinicians navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, or a sense of disconnection from the work they once loved. It’s a healing space to care for your overworked parts while still receiving high-quality IFS consultation.
Bi-Weekly IFS Group Consultation for IFS-Informed or IFS-Inspired Clinicians
IFS Group Consultation for clinicians who have not completed IFS Level 1 Training.
All IFS-Inspired and IFS-Informed Clinicians are welcome!
Biweekly (6 Sessions)
Time: 3pm-5pm EST
Dates: 6/23/2025, 7/7/2025, 7/21/2025, 8/4/2025, 8/8/2025, 9/8/2025
Cost $750
Bi-Weekly IFS Group Consultation for iFS Level 1-TRAINED clinicians
Bi-weekly IFS Group Consultation for IFS Level 1-Trained Clinicians. Biweekly (6 sessions)
Time: 12–2pm EST
Dates: 6/23/2025, 7/7/2025, 7/21/2025, 8/4/2025, 8/8/2025, 9/8/2025
Cost : $750
Monthly IFS Group Consultation for IFS-Inspired or IFS-Informed Clinicians
IFS Consultation for IFS -Inspired or IFS-Informed Clinicians who have not completed IFS Level-1 Training
All Clinicians welcomed
Monthly (6 Sessions)
Time: 3pm-5pm EST
Dates: 6/20/2025, 7/18/2025, 8/29/2025, 9/26/2025, 10/24/2025, 11/14/2025
Cost $750
Monthly IFS Consultation Groups
Monthly IFS Group Consultation for IFS Level 1- Trained Clinicians
(6 sessions)
Time: 12–2pm EST
Dates: 6/20/2025, 7/18/2025, 8/29/2025, 9/26/2025, 10/24/2025, 11/14/2025
Cost $ 750
University of North Carolina 3-Day IFS Training
This Internal Family Systems (IFS) workshop provides information on IFS from the ground up and how to adapt it flexibly to meet diverse client needs and issues. This workshop brings together two IFS certified therapists who will share and demonstrate their perspectives, experience, and style of engagement with IFS. Participants will learn the IFS framework and language, how to introduce IFS practices to clients, and how to work with clients’ vulnerable parts that carry past hurts, protective parts that guard against pain and manage daily challenges, and self-energy that supports healing. The workshop includes the topics of legacy and cultural burdens and unburdening “exiles” – parts burdened with pain, shame, fear, and other intense emotions from past traumas, often suppressed due to their overwhelming nature. Participants will also explore different ways to apply IFS and gain insights on how to choose the best approaches for each situation. Therapists will practice skills for managing their own internal systems during therapy sessions, including tracking and managing triggered parts. Live demonstrations by Tasha and Deborah, and small group activities, will help participants integrate IFS principles into clinical work, fostering deeper therapeutic connections and transformative healing processes.
IFS Consultation Groups
Group Size: 4–6 participants
Cost: $90 per person per session | 8 sessions = $720 total
Structure:
Short grounding/meditation
Practice sessions
Role-playing key interventions
Case consultation
Q&A and skill development
Groups & Schedule
Group 1
Start Date: March 10, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Other Dates: 3/24, 4/7, 4/21, 5/5, 5/19, 6/2, 6/16, 6/30
Group 2
Start Date: March 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Other Dates: 3/28, 4/11, 4/25, 5/9, 5/23, 6/6, 6/20, 7/11
Facilitating IFS Trainings:
Introduction to Internal Family Systems and Parts Work
Anti-Oppressive Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Moral Injury and Suicide
Self-Harm, Suicide, and Compassionate Endings
Legacy Burdens and Intergenerational Healing
UNC School of Social Work Politics Panel
Politics stay outside of the therapy space, or do they? A panel on ethics, perspectives and models w/Asia Tonja Marie Amos, Ph.D., Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW, and Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina 3-Day IFS Training
UNC School of Social Work 3-Day Internal Family Systems training. Trauma can upend a person’s entire system, resulting in pervasive PTSD symptoms, and emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and health consequences. This workshop trains on an innovative, evidence-based method of healing trauma, Internal Family Systems (IFS), which works by naming and working directly with a client’s vulnerable and protective inner parts, while emphasizing the client’s intuitive center and inherent healing capacity. IFS works on its own and dovetails well with other modalities for trauma work, including somatic modalities.
This is not a standard introductory IFS workshop. Throughout, Tasha delves into the use of IFS to address diverse identities, spirituality, and intersectional systems that affect the formation of people’s parts. She introduces IFS in ways that may feel more comfortable and familiar to participants, with less jargon, while providing ideas for cultural and linguistic adaptation. She devotes special attention to understanding and working with suicidal parts and with legacy burdens and legacy gifts. Tasha brings her full self and her parts to help therapists identify and work with their own parts in the service of all of the client's parts. The training includes two full session recordings.
Mentor Me: A Monthly Mentorship Group for Black Clinicians and Social Workers
Purpose: Because we need more community and we cannot succeed alone. Mentorship is the key to career growth and success. You are welcome whether you have recently graduated from school or are an expert in your field. My hope is that this can be a safe and inclusive space to build reciprocal relationships and get answers to work related questions. We are most in need of mentorship because of living with the daily impact of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and meritocracy. This monthly mentorship group is not a replacement for therapy, supervision, or consultation.
What you can expect in each meeting:
Group check-in
Meditation
Break-Out Sessions
Resource Sharing
Guest Speakers
Group Topics on: Racialized trauma, self-care, self-advocacy, burn-out, career transition, LCSW preparation, job co and more
Who's Invited: Black social workers, mental health professionals, students, interns
Cost: Free, donations welcomed and appreciated
@ 6:00pm EST - 7:15pm EST ( Zoom link provided after registration.)
Mentor Me: A Monthly Mentorship Group for Black Clinicians and Social Workers
Purpose: Because we need more community and we cannot succeed alone. Mentorship is the key to career growth and success. You are welcome whether you have recently graduated from school or are an expert in your field. My hope is that this can be a safe and inclusive space to build reciprocal relationships and get answers to work related questions. We are most in need of mentorship because of living with the daily impact of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and meritocracy. This monthly mentorship group is not a replacement for therapy, supervision, or consultation.
What you can expect in each meeting:
Group check-in
Meditation
Break-Out Sessions
Resource Sharing
Guest Speakers
Group Topics on: Racialized trauma, self-care, self-advocacy, burn-out, career transition, and more
Who's Invited: Black social workers, mental health professionals, students, interns
Cost: Free, donations welcomed and appreciated
Date/Time October 27th, 2023
@ 6:00pm EST - 7:15pm EST ( Zoom link provided after registration.)
Mentor Me: A Monthly Mentorship Group for Black Clinicians and Social Workers
Purpose: Because we need more community and we cannot succeed alone. Mentorship is the key to career growth and success. You are welcome whether you have recently graduated from school or are an expert in your field. My hope is that this can be a safe and inclusive space to build reciprocal relationships and get answers to work related questions. We are most in need of mentorship because of living with the daily impact of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, racism, and meritocracy. This monthly mentorship group is not a replacement for therapy, supervision, or consultation.
What you can expect in each meeting:
Group check-in
Meditation
Break-Out Sessions
Resource Sharing
Guest Speakers
Group Topics on: Racialized trauma, self-care, self-advocacy, burn-out, career transition, and more
Who's Invited: Black social workers, mental health professionals, students, interns
Cost: Free, donations welcomed and appreciated
Date/Time October 27th, 2023
@ 6:00pm EST - 7:15pm EST ( Zoom link provided after registration.)
All Bodies Community Circle
This is a free call to action for ALL survivors and allies to address sexual trauma and abuse in the psychedelics and indigenous medicine environments.
This is a call for community, this is a call for transformative justice. We have to build the community that we need— this forum is step one towards that goal.
There is an enormous amount of vulnerability when seeking healing via psychedelics and indigenous medicine. There is enormous vulnerability when in an altered state. An alarming number of people arrive at the need for psychedelic and indigenous healing due to a history of experiencing trauma. Many come to sacred earth medicine after other methods have failed to heal and connect them back to their bodies. The same population is most at risk for sexual trauma. An alarming number of people are being harmed in both underground and above ground/Western medicine spaces.
We will not remain silent. We will not remain unprotected. We must take action to protect ourselves and each other. We cannot do this alone. We need help, accountability, and support. If you have been harmed, witnessed harm, heard of harm— this space is for you.
Our intentions for this forum is:
to create community
to have a space to process individual and collective harm
to create an action plan for safety and accountability
to tend to survivors
to help you regain your power
to offer support and resources
When: September 21, 2023 7:00PM EST- 8:30PM EST
Location: Virtual
Fee: Free, Donations accepted at Venmo:Tasha-Hunter-3 or CashApp: $TSHLCSW
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcOCtpj8tG93A7ZatF-HxZxVvUKdTBYEu
IFS, Psychedelics, and Anti-Oppression
Internal Family Systems (IFS) can be one of the most compassionate and gentle approaches for addressing trauma, addiction, depression, and anxiety. By building on the original IFS model and integrating the ketamine-assisted therapy protocol, participants in this program will deepen and elevate their practice. This training incorporates anti-oppressive, social justice, and multicultural considerations, with special emphasis on serving marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ and trans communities.
Using the IFS protocol, participants will learn tools to minimize harm and prioritize safety throughout all stages of the therapeutic process. They will learn how to connect with and attend to their own parts, as well as facilitate the healing of their clients’ parts.
Participants will gain a historical and foundational understanding of ketamine and its application within a therapeutic model. They will also learn to identify the three-pronged process of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) — preparation, dosing, and integration — and understand its importance in sustaining relief from mental health symptoms.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the fundamentals of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and its utility in treating mental health symptoms and racial trauma, particularly when combined with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).
“Identify the three-pronged process of KAP, which includes preparation, dosing, and integration.
Describe the advantages of using IFS as a supportive model in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.”
Describe the concept of cultural humility and explain how this perspective can enhance the effectiveness of both IFS and KAP in achieving sustainable healing outcomes.
List three strategies for addressing culture, racial trauma, and biases in clinical practice.
September 8, 2023( 12:00 – 4:00 PM EDT )
Register today, includes 4 CEUS
Description
Internal Family Systems (IFS) can be one of the most compassionate and gentle approaches for addressing trauma, addiction, depression, and anxiety. By building on the original IFS model and integrating the ketamine-assisted therapy protocol, participants in this program will deepen and elevate their practice. This training incorporates anti-oppressive, social justice, and multicultural considerations, with special emphasis on serving marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ and trans communities.
Using the IFS protocol, participants will learn tools to minimize harm and prioritize safety throughout all stages of the therapeutic process. They will learn how to connect with and attend to their own parts, as well as facilitate the healing of their clients’ parts.
Participants will gain a historical and foundational understanding of ketamine and its application within a therapeutic model. They will also learn to identify the three-pronged process of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) — preparation, dosing, and integration — and understand its importance in sustaining relief from mental health symptoms.
Learning Objectives
Explain the fundamentals of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and its utility in treating mental health symptoms and racial trauma, particularly when combined with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).
“Identify the three-pronged process of KAP, which includes preparation, dosing, and integration.
Describe the advantages of using IFS as a supportive model in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.”
Describe the concept of cultural humility and explain how this perspective can enhance the effectiveness of both IFS and KAP in achieving sustainable healing outcomes.
List three strategies for addressing culture, racial trauma, and biases in clinical practice.
Continuing Education
Fluence International, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Fluence maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Fluence International, Inc. 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 mental health counselors. #MHC-0232.
Fluence International, Inc. 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-0674.
Fluence International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0167.
The Department’s approval of a provider of continuing education does not constitute the Department’s endorsement of the content, positions or practices that may be addressed in any specific continuing education course offered by the approved provider.
For questions about continuing education and receiving your CE Certificate or Certificate of Attendance, contact info@fluencetraining.com. You can also navigate to the FAQs page for more information about our courses/events.
Cost: $195
Join Tasha Hunter, LCSW and Candace Oglesby, LCPC. Register here: https://www.fluencetraining.com/training/ifs-psychedelics-and-anti-oppression/
Women/Femmes in Psychedelics & Indigenous Medicines Community Forum
This is a free call to action for ALL BIPOC to address abuse of BIPOC women and fem-presenting LGBTQIA in the psychedelics and indigenous medicine environments. This is a call for community, this is a call for transformative justice. We have to build the community that we need— this forum is step one towards that goal.
Workshop: IFS and Suicidal Parts for Marginalized Communities
This workshop builds on the IFS framework and blends personal narrative while exploring social justice factors. This training will focus on the following:
How we de-stigmatize and de-colonize treatment of suicidal clients
Cultural considerations and implications for marginalized communities
Leading with Self when working with suicidal parts
Legal responsibilities of licensed mental health professionals
Legacy burdens and the impact on the client’s system
Impact of suicide and self-harm parts on treatment providers
Types of suicidal parts and how we address each uniquely
Compassionate endings and our role and responsibilities
When: Friday, June 30th, 2023 10:00AM EST- 12:00PM EST-
Location: Virtual
Fee: $150
