During this Workshop Series, you will:
Discover effective integration strategies for combining Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy with other therapeutic modalities to enhance client outcomes.
Learn from expert trainers Fran Booth, Mike Elkin, Jenna Riemersma, Daphne Fatter, and Rosa Bramble Caballero, who bring diverse expertise in IFS and complementary approaches.
Explore the synergy between IFS and other methods, including somatic therapies, EMDR, hypnotic technology, and Sensorimotor therapy.
Develop practical skills to navigate complex client presentations with confidence and flexibility.
Engage in experiential exercises and small group discussions to deepen self-awareness and strengthen integration techniques.
Refine your ability to blend therapeutic approaches while maintaining fidelity to the core principles of IFS.
Integrating IFS Therapy with Other Modalities
Workshop 1 | Oct. 15
Jenna Riemersma
The Art of Integration: Principles for Combining Therapeutic Modalities
Workshop 2 | Oct. 22
Daphne Fatter
IFS + EMDR
Workshop 3 | Oct. 29
Mike Elkin
IFS and talking therapies: How to use implicit direct access
Workshop 4 | Nov. 5
Rosa Bramble Caballero
IFS + Sensorimotor
Workshop 5 | Nov. 13
Fran Booth
Integrating Somatic Therapy Practices Into the IFS Protocol
Workshop 6 | Nov. 19 Jenna Riemersma
Bringing it all Together: A Simple Tool for Skillful Integration
Meet the Teachers
Jenna Riemersma
Jenna Riemersma is a #1 best-selling IFS author, speaker, and clinical director. She is a Certified Level 3 IFS therapist, IFS Approved Clinical Consultant, and the developer of the Move Toward® shorthand tool for the IFS model. Jenna was personally trained by Dr. Richard Schwartz, and specializes in IFS integration with topics such as addiction, spirituality, sexuality, and EMDR.
Jenna has been a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CSAT-S) and Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CMAT-S) for over a decade and is teaching faculty for the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). She is also trained in EMDR, experiential therapy and psychodrama.
Jenna is the author of Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation through Internal Family Systems therapy, and editor and co-author of Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS model with key modalities, communities and trends. Take advantage of Jenna’s free IFS meditations, videos and courses on Insight Timer, the IFS app Sentur, and her website www.MoveToward.com.
Fran Booth
Frances D. Booth LICSW is a Certified IFS Therapist, Trainer and Consultant. She’s been a clinician for over 40 years, specializes in complex trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, and binge eating.
Fran enjoys teaching IFS as a comprehensive integrative paradigm that encompasses her earlier explorations in various paths to heal the human heart and psyche: psychodynamic, ego states, mindfulness, attachment and body-based modalities.
Fran has held adjunct faculty positions at Tufts University School of Medicine, Smith College, and the University of New Hampshire.
Her mindfulness training is with the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA. Her Mind/Body training was with the Herbert Benson Mind Body Center, Boston, MA.
She was a founding member of The Healing Garden, a complementary care cancer center.
She loves to play, wear hats, laugh, sing, dance, dine and wine, read, explore new lands, bike, sail, swim, attend theater and be silly with grandchildren.
Michael Elkin
Michael Elkin, LMFT is a IFS Senior Lead Trainer who has been teaching the model since 1997.
He has over 45 years of clinical experience, and his early career was focused on treating mandated clients in drug and alcohol treatment agencies where he got extensive experience working with chronic addiction and violent and sexual perpetrators. In order to learn to be effective with these challenges, he got training in family, strategic and hypnotic therapies.
He is an author of the book: Families Under the Influence.
Mike has been married for 54 years; 30 years in his practice marriage which produced 2 sons, and his 24 year marriage to storyteller, Judith Black. This has contributed to his deep interest in intimacy and relationships. He has been nationally ranked as a billiard player.
Daphne Fatter
Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, and clinical IFS consultant.
She is the author of the chapter: “Ancestral lineage healing: Restoring Belonging and Reconnection with Ancestral Wisdom and Collective Self-Energy” in “Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends.”
Dr. Fatter provides engaging continuing education to mental health providers on nuances of trauma treatment from her seasoned clinical experience treating PTSD and complex trauma.
She integrates an intergenerational and transpersonal lens with IFS in her guidance of IFS-informed ancestral healing groups, consultation groups, and IFS-based psychotherapy for adults.
In her personal life, Daphne is a proud and active mother of three children who happen to come into this life at the same time as triplets! Her favorite quote is by Rumi: “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop.”
Rosa Bramble Caballero
Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, LCSW-R is a bilingual clinical social worker. She’s a Certified IFS Therapist and Assistant Trainer. She is also a member of the IFSI DEI committee. She was born in Venezuela and identifies as an Afro-Latina.
She is excited about sharing with others the transformative healing she has found in IFS, a powerful and compassionate tool to heal from cultural and legacy burdens including racism, colorism, and classism. She is committed to bringing IFS to different regions of the world, including Latin America, and bringing the voice of the global majority to the model.
In addition to IFS, her clinical experience as a Level 2 trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapist facilitates her integration and the use of the body as a source of resilience and healing.
With 25 years of clinical experience, Rosa’s private practice provides a safe place to heal, including the areas of gender-based violence, race, religion, and sexual orientation-related trauma. In addition to direct practice, Rosa offers supervision and consultation to therapists and practitioners learning the model and provides workshops to community and government agencies and NGOs on migration trauma.
Rosa is a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work, where she teaches several advanced clinical and practical courses, including a course on trauma-informed treatment for asylum seekers and immigrants.
