Pamela Krause, LCSW, a Senior Lead Trainer with the IFS Institute, is known for her engaging and creative presentations, and lively, compassionate approach to therapy and teaching. She leads Level 2 & Level 3 trainings as well as co-leading advanced leadership training programs for future Lead Trainers for the IFS Institute. 

 

Her expertise in IFS includes: using Direct Access, understanding the difference between Self-energy and Self-like parts, and adapting the IFS model for use with younger children.

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We are thrilled to have the privilege of welcoming Pam to Ireland to lead a retreat on Self Energy and Self-Like Parts from October 21st - October 25th, 2024 in Ireland. 

Dr. Lissa Rankin is the best-selling author of 7 books, a mind-body medicine physician, a sought-after speaker, a “memoir as medicine” writing teacher, an educator of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and spiritual bypassing recovery, the founder of the physician training program Whole Health Medicine Institute, and the founder of the trauma-informed medicine non-profit Heal At Last. 

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We are very honoured to invite Dr. Rankin to lead a five-day residential retreat with us on the sunny Island of Gozo from November 4th - November 8th, 2024. 

Mary Kruger, MS, LMFT, is the founder of Rimmon Pond Counseling, an IFS-based private practice in Connecticut. With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in addictions, eating disorders, trauma, and relationships. Mary integrates IFS with her unique experiential approach, developing innovative methods to work with parts and access Self-energy in individual, relational, and group settings. She enjoys sharing her expertise through teaching and consulting on a national level. Mary is renowned for her humor, creativity, passion, and love of dancing and connecting with people.

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We are excited to host Mary to run a 5-day residential retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from March 3rd - March 7th, 2025

Dr. Frank Anderson, MD, 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. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self Leadership. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who 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.

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We are very honoured to invite Dr. Anderson to lead a five-day residential retreat with us on the charming Island of Ireland from March 31st - April 4th, 2025. 

Melissa Mose, LMFT, a level 3 trained and certified IFS clinician and the President of OCD SoCal, has developed an integrative method to treat OCD and related disorders within a compassionate and non-patholigizing IFS Framework.  

 

Martha Sweezy is an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a program consultant and supervisor at Cambridge Health Alliance, and a psychotherapist in private practice in Northampton, MA.

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We are thrilled to bring both these brilliant minds together to lead this 5-day residential workshop where you will learn an IFS informed approach to the assessment and treatment of obsession and compulsive (OC) systems.

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This workshop will take place from March 3th - 7th, 2025.

Susan McConnell’s transformative Step 1 - 30Hr Somatic IFS retreat is a retreat not to be missed.

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Somatic IFS is a branch of IFS that blends the principles of somatic therapy - like movement, touch, sensation and breathwork – with the traditional tools of IFS. During this 7-day residential retreat, you will be invited to explore your internal system with the practices of Somatic IFS.

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We are delighted to host Susan to run this Step 1 Somatic IFS Retreat from April 27th - May 4th, 2025 in Portugal.

Toni Herbine-Blank, MS, RN, Cs-P, is a Senior Trainer for the Center for Self-Leadership and the sole developer of Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) the application of IFS to couples therapy. She runs trainings, retreats and workshops on both methods nationally and internationally and has a private psychotherapy practice in Durango, Colorado. 

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We are thrilled to invite Toni Herbine Blank to lead a 5-day residential couples retreat in a charming seaside town in Portugal from May 5th - May 10th, 2025.

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This 54-hour Step 2 Somatic IFS Online Training will build on your immersion into the practices of Somatic IFS that you experienced in the Somatic IFS 30-Hour Step 1 program. There will be weekly sessions of clinical training focusing on the integration and application of the somatic practices of awareness, breath, resonance, movement, and touch with the IFS Model of psychotherapy.  

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This Step 2 Training Program will run online from May 2025 - June 2025

Dr Daniel Foor is the founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine.

Ancestral healing emphasizes learning to relate directly with one’s recent and more ancient blood ancestors for personal, family, and cultural healing.

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Daniel’s training draws from his experience in diverse lineages of ritual arts; his academic work as doctor of psychology; his clinical training as a marriage and family therapist; and over 25 years of implementing the teachings of earth and ancestor reverence in his personal life.

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Applications are currently open for this 5-day residential retreat in Palermo, Sicily from 17th February - 21st February, 2025.

The messages we absorb from the dominant culture as well as from family, friends, and others, in addition to other stressful or traumatic experiences and traumas, motivate parts of us to focus on food and the body to alleviate the shame, worthlessness, and anxiety other parts of us hold. Since these toxic messages are pervasive, we often don’t notice or question them. We continue to engage in diets and wellness plans that keep us stuck and also perpetuate these corrosive practices at the cultural level.

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In this six-day retreat, you‘ll explore the different beliefs, emotions, and energies parts of you carry regarding food and your body.  Through a combination of large group discussions, small group experiential exercises, and live demonstrations, you’ll get to know and heal the parts of yourself who carry burdens and are stuck in painful cycles of dieting or disconnecting from the body.

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Chester, Connecticut, USA from 9th -14th , March 2025

Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW (Pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, MA. She has over thirty years of experience working with C-PTSD and dissociative disorders and provides trainings and consultation.  

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Besides her book, Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems, she has written on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, on EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with perpetrator introjects. Her commitment to helping her clients heal and to providing quality training has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.

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Applications are currently open for this retreat in Portugal from May 12th - May 16th, 2025.