Internal Family Systems | Official Level 1 Training - 9th Ed 2024

In this official L1-2 Hybrid (#1038) IFS  training, you complete Level 1 in 2 weeks.                
This training will take place online and onsite (Hybrid).    

Module 1 / week 1 - 6 days online        
April 15th-17th (1 day off) and 19th-21st (total 6 days)      
Module2 / week 2 - 6-day onsite         
June 2nd- 7th (6 days)              

+ 2 practice days, offering a total of 89.5 program hours        
Practices (Online): Friday 10th May and Sunday 19th May (5h each)

Participants must complete a minimum of 75 program hours to receive a certificate of completion.

Starting Times for  April's Online Session:  12 PM (noon) Portugal Time  
Ends at 8 pm - Portugal time   

Lunchtime / Break will be around 3.30/3.40 Portugal Time

Starting Times for June's Onsite Session:  9 AM Portugal Time
Each day will be 6.30 hours of learning, plus the breaks. 

The Bridge day times would be 12 noon until 5.15 pm with a 15-minute break.            

Internal Family Systems is at the forefront of a movement toward a more collaborative therapeutic approach that relies on clients’ intuitive wisdom. IFS offers a clear, non-pathologizing, and empowering view of human cognitive and emotional life and provides a dynamic therapeutic approach that allows both therapist and client to enter into a transformational relationship in which healing can occur.             

The Training will be held in English.  

About the Trainers              
Alexia Rothman  (Co-Lead Mentee Trainer) is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Atlanta, GA, since 2004.  She is a Certified Internal Family Systems therapist, an Assistant Trainer for the IFS Institute, an international speaker and educator on the IFS model, and a professional consultant for clinicians seeking to deepen their knowledge and practice of IFS through theoretical discussions, case consultation, technique practice, and deep, personal experiential work with their own internal systems. Dr. Rothman has received extensive training in the IFS model, primarily from IFS developer, Dr. Richard Schwartz.  She has served on staff for multiple Level 1, 2, and 3 experiential IFS trainings, and she offers workshops on the IFS model throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Rothman is a United States Presidential Scholar who graduated summa cum laude from Emory University as a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar.  She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was an Edwin W. Pauley Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.  She has held adjunct faculty positions at Emory University and Agnes Scott College.

Sue Smith (Co-Lead Trainer)  is a Certified IFS therapist with a private therapy practice in the Northwest of England. Her background is in Experiential Person-Centred therapy. She is trained in Hakomi - Mindfulness-based Somatic Psychotherapy and has an MA in Dance and Somatic Wellbeing. She is fully trained in IFS and Somatic IFS. Since training in IFS in 2011 with Richard Schwartz, Sue was part of the leadership group that has supported the growth of the model in the UK as a member of the IFSUK team. She has been a Programme Assistant and Lead Programme Assistant on many trainings over these years. Sue was delighted to be invited onto the Lead Trainer Programme for IFS Institute in 2022 and now works in the Co-Lead role in the UK and elsewhere. Before establishing in private practice, she worked as a therapist with children, young people and adults in various settings including schools, youth offending teams, and social care. She has a particular interest in bringing somatic movement, dance, and creativity into IFS.

Lead trainers will be assisted by 1 LPA and 12 Programme Assistants (PAs), who have completed at least IFS L2 training, in the ratio of 1:3 participants.