Frank Anderson, MD
Hello
As a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, I never learned about using energy or spirituality in psychotherapy. It was never discussed (unless in a derogatory way) in my formal education.
It was only through luck and chance that I stumbled on the modalities that transformed my work.
I first learned about Self energy (aka inner wisdom) in my work as an IFS therapist. But then, something even more impactful occurred…
I started hearing voices. No, not those kinds of voices.
Encouraging voices. They would tell me something they wanted me to say in a therapy session. Or tell me something I needed to know about my own role as a parent. I did my best to ignore them…but they were quite insistent!
The first time I shared one of these ‘messages’ — apparently from the dead husband of my client — the result was unexpected. And profound.
It turns out, this bit of information — which made no logical sense to me — made total sense to my client. I couldn’t have imagined or made this up on my own, yet it was just what my client needed to hear to resolve her unrelenting grief.
Spiritual energy can take the form of voices, images, physical sensations, mental ideas, colors, sounds, or shapes. Learning how to use this energy helped me tap into my energy as well as my clients’ energy. And it changed how I practiced forever.
Instead of stifling spirituality in my therapy space, I discovered it is crucial to all forms of healing.
I learned how to be with my clients in different ways — helping them find their own inner knowing, holding space for them to access it, and using that energy to heal their trauma.
You can do this too. I am pleased to present: New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience, and Spirituality, an IFS-informed approach to psychotherapy that brings spiritual energy into therapeutic healing spaces.
Together, we will explore:
Module 1: A Deeper Dive Into Self-Energy
Module 2: Energy, Science, and Healing
Module 3: Using the Client’s Spiritual Resources in Psychotherapy
Module 4: Healing Trauma
You might worry about how your colleagues or clients will view you if you start talking about energy and spirituality in your therapy practice.
Heck, you might worry about how you will view yourself, stepping out of your comfort zone.
But when you have another way to overcome roadblocks to healing… when you expand your understanding of spiritual energy… when you can bring light into an unknown space that can accelerate your client’s progress… moving past those obstacles is worth the effort.
You will learn to incorporate your client’s spirituality in a clinical setting, and bridge your own spiritual practice to your psychotherapy practice.
Therapists need expanded resources to deal with personal, cultural, familial, and transgenerational trauma. Join us to expand your skills in New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience, and Spirituality.
FOUR video training modules
Frank will teach you the science and the practices behind each type of energy work and how to incorporate it into your practice.
THREE 1.5-HOUR CALL recordings
Frank will show you by example — with demos — how to access energy in a therapeutic session and what to do with the information you gather.
Private membership site
All your course materials are in one easy-to-navigate platform, supported by our dedicated customer service team.
Downloadable videos & transcripts
Recordings, transcripts, and handouts so you can re-watch and dive in deeper at your own pace.
Here’s what you receive with
New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience, and Spirituality
PLUS THESE SPECIAL BONUSES:
Trauma at the Root of Illness: A Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté
In this interview, Drs. Frank Anderson and Gabor Mate explore the common threads of Compassionate Inquiry and IFS. Gabor shares his ideas on trauma as the root of all illness, and how the separation of mind and body, lack of spirituality, and materialism feed chronic illness. Together, they deconstruct why Western culture – and its institutions of psychotherapy and medicine – ignore trauma, even in the face of rising public awareness. Most importantly, Frank and Gabor offer real solutions to this crisis. Don’t miss their secrets to looking younger while aging, a Bob Dylan quote, and watching their compassion in action.
A conversation with Elizabeth Call, PsyD
Frank interviews Elizabeth Call, PsyD, an expert in trauma, meditative states, incorporating spirituality in psychotherapy, and the use of expanded states of consciousness in trauma healing.
Exclusive interview with Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD
Join Frank and Richard in this delightful interview as they compare their methodologies for healing and transformation. They discuss the power of poetry, emotional literacy, vulnerability, and embodied practice to leverage resilience. Hear about using body tracking as an inner “informant” to one’s true state, how embodying new actions create lasting change, and how their two approaches to healing – with somatics and spirituality – focus on healing versus overriding.
A FREE digital copy of Frank's book
You’ll also get a FREE digital copy of Frank’s book, To Be Loved, which Frank discussed on the call recordings you get access too.
FOUNDATIONS
From this instant-access module, you’ll learn the building blocks of cultivating a relationship with energy and the principles of IFS used in this course. Frank will show you all the different dimensions of healing so you can expand how you integrate the healing of trauma. You’ll be led through an exercise to cultivate an internal relationship so you can sense what your own body is trying to tell you and reveal the secrets it is holding.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Key Principles of IFS: how parts are organized into systems around overwhelming life experience (i.e., trauma), and how those parts show themselves using all 5 senses so you can recognize all the ways people experience the world
- How to tap into your Self energy (your inherent wisdom) and spirituality to bring a new dimension to your therapy
- The 8 Cs of your inherent healing capacity
A Deeper Dive into Self Energy
In this module, you’ll explore Self energy in depth. You’ll understand the neuroscience of the inner wisdom at your core, discover your unique way of accessing Self energy, and how to hone your ways of responding to clients so you can engage resilience to overcome trauma.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Ways to access Self energy and develop a practice around your own internal wisdom
- The three dimensions of Self energy — inner, environmental, and beyond — available for you to access
- The neuroscience of Self energy that explains how this energy works within the nervous system
- The difference between empathy and compassion — and when to use one or the other
ENERGY, SCIENCE, AND HEALING
In Module 2, Frank will introduce you to all the types of energy, and show you how different areas of energy – colors, movement, sensations, and visions — represent emotions. Frank will share a 6-step process to begin integrating energy into your practice so you can add this new dimension to your trauma healing.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Energy healing techniques for trauma so you know what to use when
- Bridging energy and science in trauma healing so you can apply both in your practice
- Breathwork, sensory activation & movement — three techniques you can use to access and move energy
- How to differentiate between the mind, the brain, imagination, and emotion
- How to integrate energy into your practice
Using the Client’s Spiritual Resources in Psychotherapy
In this module, Frank will discuss how stuck energy can block healing. He’ll demonstrate how parts can block energy, but how the therapist can also invite parts to help with energetic work. This module will also address cultural, familial, and transgenerational burdens and how to bring spirituality in the clinical space.
In this session, we will discuss:
- How blocked or stuck energy impedes access to healing so you can address it before it leads to emotional or physical illness
- The deeper soul wounding of cultural, familial, and transgenerational burdens and how to transform these negative energies
- How to bring up spirituality with your client in a clinical session
- How to hold your own belief system while remaining open and available to your client’s experience
- The use of psychedelics to help parts step back so your client can access Self energy and spiritual dimensions
HEALING TRAUMA
In your final module, you will walk through the process of trauma healing to unburden and release what no longer serves and what we no longer need to carry. Frank will share the appropriate modalities for each step and his Arc of Healing so your clients can learn from their experiences and move beyond them.
In this session, we will discuss:
- Types of complex trauma wounding
- The steps of trauma healing and which modalities are most helpful for each
- The neuroscience and neuroplasticity that explains how clients really can let go of their burdens and transform their trauma
Here’s what you receive with
New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience, and Spirituality
Meet Your Presenter
Frank Anderson, MD
Frank Anderson, MD, is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy. Dr. Anderson is a Lead Trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation.
Dr. Anderson has contributed to Internal Family Systems Therapy-New Dimensions, What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaboration In Internal Family Systems Therapy, co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual, and authored Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems, released in May 2021. Dr. Anderson maintains a private practice in Harvard, MA.
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