Playful Parts: The Intersection of Play Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Carmen Jimenez Pride

Playful Parts: The Intersection of Play Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Carmen Jimenez Pride

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When kids experience trauma or other negative life events such as abuse, neglect, bullying, racism, violence, or educational difficulties, they often hold powerful negative beliefs about themselves, such as “I’m broken”, “I’m unlovable”, or “It was my fault”.

As a therapist, you know that play is a child’s natural language for expressing emotions, processing experiences, and resolving internal conflict. But did you know that you can expand this work further by incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy into your session? By weaving the essence of IFS, parts work, with play therapy interventions, you can help kids conceptualize themselves and their experiences in a healthier way.

Watch Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW, RPT-S, and Certified IFS Therapist, as she expertly pairs the therapeutic power of play with the non-pathologizing, flexible approach of IFS. Through expert explanation and demonstration, Carmen will teach you how to integrate these two powerful therapy methods so you can help young clients:

• Release shame as they explore and make sense of their internal sensations and experiences
• Give voice to all their “parts”, none of which are bad or wrong
• Express and process painful emotions, urges, and memories without assigning blame or shame to them
• Unhook from distressing beliefs about themselves and their experiences
• Enhance social relationships, foster emotional wellness, and build on personal strengths
• Develop cognitive flexibility and reframe self-doubt
• And so much more!

Outline:

The Internal Family System (IFS) Treatment Model

• Foundational assumptions of the approach
• IFS concepts and terms
• Differentiate between managers, firefighters, and exiles
• Commonalities with other systems approaches
• Therapeutic benefits of parts work
• Cultural competence and humility

No Bad Parts: The IFS Process

• The 6 F’s – how to identify and understand protective parts
• Recognize and honor the role of each part
• The 8 C’s – qualities of self-energy and their role in IFS
• The non-pathologizing essence of IFS
• Understanding your own parts as the therapist

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF IFS & PLAY

The Therapeutic Powers of Play Meets IFS

• Why play therapy model lends itself seamlessly to IFS treatment outcomes
• How IFS and play help access and heal wounded parts
• Talk to kids about their internal world from IFS perspective
  • Relationship between protective parts and exiles
• Exploring parts with external representation in play therapy
• Limitations of the research, potential risks

Putting IFS into Practice Utilizing Play Therapy Techniques

• Sandtray therapy – bringing the internal to the external
• Expressive arts – giving language and expression to experiences and parts
• LEGO® – based therapy – from internal to 3D
• Bibliotherapy – literature to express and understand the internal system
• Non-directive play – staying core to the experiential concept of IFS and letting parts speak for themselves
• And more!

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