What’s So Complex About Complex Trauma?

A six week learning group for IFS-trained and IFS-informed clinicians

Working with complex trauma can be both deeply rewarding and uniquely challenging. This experiential group is designed for clinicians who want to integrate the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model into their trauma-focused work. Together, we’ll explore how complex trauma shows up in the therapy room and how to use IFS to deepen self-compassion, curiosity, and healing in your clients.

By the end of this group, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the layers and dynamics of complex trauma in clinical practice.

  • Support clients in both hypoarousal (shut down) and hyperarousal (overwhelm).

  • Facilitate movement toward insight, unburdening, and healing.

  • Navigate relational ruptures with compassion and repair.

  • Prevent burnout by tending to their own system as a trauma-focused therapist.

  • Recognize therapist triggers and understand their own history in clinical work.

  • Differentiate empathy from compassion in therapeutic presence.

  • Apply self-disclosure appropriately and effectively in trauma therapy.

Format

  • 120 minute sessions on Zoom

  • Mixture of didactic teaching, experiential practices, and case discussion

  • Small group format for community learning and mutual support

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