Frank Anderson, MD, (trauma training specialist) 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 Spiritual Therapy Techniques, particularly 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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IFS Self Energy: Frank Anderson Trauma Training
I had been doing psychopharmacology conferences for Bessel for years and then he invited this guy Dick Schwartz, and I said okay, let me go to this day-long workshop. So that was the first time I really met Dick Schwartz, and it was one of those Oprah aha moments, right when I saw Dick Schwartz talking about his work with trauma. It was a game changer for me.
Healing Parts Permanently with IFS
Frank Anderson Talks about Dick Schwartz, Founder of Internal Family Systems Therapy Work
The pieces that were really interesting were Internal Family Systems (IFS). Dick Schwartz talked about getting parts out of the past and having them totally heal, release, and let go of everything they were carrying. That was really new for me.
So I had been working with parts in therapy for a long time. I had been trained with EMDR, I had been trained in sensory motor therapy. But Dick Schwartz, the founder of IFS, really talked about something different as it relates to healing – taking parts out of the past and permanent healing.
So I got super excited, I got super jazzed about it, and I dove into IFS full force. I went level one, level two, level three, and then at some point, Dick and I became friends. He asked me to do a trauma training for Internal Family Systems because they hadn’t had trauma-specific trainings at that point.
That’s a little bit of my history and how I kind of got into the trauma field itself, and then how I got into Internal Family Systems.
Associations of IFS and Healing Trauma
So today we’re going to be talking about associations of IFS and healing. The [New Dimensions in Trauma Healing Online Course with Academy of Therapy Wisdom] is not an IFS course per se, but we are going to use some of the key principles of Internal Family Systems and really expand healing here. I am again super excited to be able to do this because this is something that I don’t get a chance to talk about that much.
Frank Anderson’s New Trauma Healing Course Elements
Energy and Spirituality in the Treatment of Trauma
We’re going to be talking about energy, self-energy, our inherent wisdom within. We’re also going to be talking about spirituality, and oftentimes a lot of these conferences, they do, “Let’s not talk about spirituality, Frank. That’s kind of weird, that’s a little woo-woo.” But I’m so thrilled to be able to be talking about that stuff here because, in my experience, you have to deal with energy, you have to deal with the self, and often you deal with spirit, spirituality, whatever that means to you as it relates to healing trauma.
We’re also going to be talking about the ways energy gets blocked, the way trauma is so difficult to heal because there are a lot of things that block access to healing. That is some of what we’ll be talking about throughout the course of our time together, and I’m super excited for you and me to be on this journey together. So why don’t we begin?
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Spiritual Therapy Techniques: Intuition in Clinical Practice
In this training, We will explore:
How to access your intuition in the therapy room so you can use it
How to differentiate what’s coming from your mind’s eye from what you are receiving from ‘beyond’
How to talk about Spirituality so your clients don’t feel like you’re imposing your personal beliefs on them.
How to incorporate your intuitive sense with non-spiritual clients
