Course Content

21 hours of contact time and structured practice groups, video content, and written resources to enhance your learning between sessions.

Structure of the course

7 x 3 hour workshops comprised of didactic teaching, experiential exercises, demos, videos and Q&A

Location

Online

Who is this Workshop for:

Therapists, Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers as well as those seeking to do their own inner healing work.

Prerequisites:

Those who have completed Level 1 (or equivalent), and have begun using IFS with their clients.
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(If you are an experienced therapist and have over 50-100 of your own personal IFS therapy with an IFS therapist or Practitioner, but have not been able to get into Level 1, you can also join this course. Graduates of Stepping Stones or equivalent may also apply).
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Each module builds on the last and you will have access to reading and video material to watch/read between the bi-weekly workshops. These resources will continue to be available to you at the end of the course.  
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Each person will also be invited to participate in break out groups and to reflect on their own parts as part of the learning environment.
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Each participant will be expected to work on with their own inner system during practical exercises. There are no ‘role-plays’ only ‘real-plays’.

​Please note: This course is not affiliated with the Internal Family Systems Institute (IFSI) nor is it a substitute for nor equivalent to the IFS Institutes Level 1, 2 or 3 trainings. To become IFS certified, you must complete the IFS Institute's Level 1 training and complete the certification process.

What Will You Learn Each Week?

A little more about me...

My name is Stephanie Mitchell and I'm a

Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist working in private practice in Australia.

I specialise in working with complex trauma and experiences which often get labelled as 'mental illness'.

I'm interested in how healing and change occur in the human to human relationship, within spaces of relational safety and acceptance and outside the constructs of diagnostic labels.

I work exclusively in the IFS Model and have undertaken extensive training in IFS including 100+ hours with Richard Schwartz. I am passionate about working in highly nuanced and attuned ways within the Model. I bring these nuanced approaches to all my teaching. 

Believing that a therapist can only take a client as far as they themselves have travelled I have undertaken over 650 hours of my own personal therapy in the IFS Model and I am deeply acquainted with my own parts, embodying the model from the inside out.

I am passionately committed to a Self-led life, where my parts trust me and I have the capacity for the all important You-turn that is the cornerstone of the IFS Model.

This approach is what I believe is the point of difference in my trainings as I bring a Self-led quality of Clarity, Connection, Compassion and Curiosity to the course, welcoming all parts of the student and being open to my own You-turns when necessary. 

I have also undertaken extensive personal studies in shame, transference, relational psychotherapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and attachment theory, as I designed this course. 

I began teaching about IFS for early developmental trauma in 2019 at the international conference “Re-Awaken” where I was one of the Keynote speakers. 

Since then I have presented at the IFS Conference on IFS and experiences that get diagnosed as “psychosis”, along with teaching in the UK, Canada, Australia, US and Spain on using IFS with highly distressed clients - whatever their ‘diagnosis’ is,

I am also a passionate advocate and activist for social and systems change towards non-pathologising and compassionate approaches to mental distress and am involved at national and international levels around mental health reform.