Description
6 CPD POINTS/HOURS AWARDED FOR WEBINAR SERIES
Overview
Client reports of feeling concerned about too much screen time, drinking, food and body preoccupation, sex and relationship preoccupation, cannabis/drug use and overspending are common clinical concerns. These ‘addictive’ issues are typically accompanied by chronic anxiety, excessive stress and feeling overloaded by the demands of work, family and social connection. How do these issues correlate? How can we help?
This experiential workshop offers an Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, including new concepts for understanding addictive processes and effective systemic interventions that are compassionate, empowering and address the underlying shame and trauma our clients are navigating. How addictive issues impact the therapist will also be addressed.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will learn an IFS definition of addiction.
- Participants will learn how to utilize an IFS map of addictive processes.
- Participants will learn the three categories of the internal system.
- Participants will learn common clinical polarities.
- Participants will learn effective interventions with extreme behaviors.
- Participants will learn how to safely intervene with underlying trauma.
- Participants will learn how to collaborate effectively and reduce resistance.
- Participants will learn how to guide clients to track their inner processes.
- Participants will be able to identify parts of the therapist impacted with type of system.
Course Content Level
Intermediate/Advanced
Target Audience
This course is suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, family therapists, students and anyone interested or working in attachment, trauma, addiction or neuroscience.
Speaker Biography
Cece Sykes, LCSW is a senior trainer at the Internal Family Systems Institute with over thirty-five years of clinical experience specializing in recovery from trauma and addiction. Her chapter on addictive processes appears in IFS: Innovations & Elaborations (Routledge, 2016). She is co-author of a new book on IFS therapy due for release in early 2023: Treating Addictive Processes with Internal Family Systems Therapy: A Compassionate and Effective Approach for Helping People Who Soothe or Distract with Substances, Food, Gambling, Pornography, and More. Cece also developed the Heart Lessons of the Journey retreat for an on-going study of therapist narratives. She lectures and consults internationally on these and other related subjects. Cece lives and works in the Chicago area.
