IFS Treatment for Chronic Pain

Come learn how IFS therapy can support the relief of chronic physical pain!

You will be introduced to a holistic approach for treating chronic pain based on IFS. With use of clinical case material, didactic instruction, and experiential exercise you will learn how parts of the personality affect chronic pain inadvertently, and sometimes purposefully in their attempts to cope with burdens of fear, toxic stress and trauma.

This workshop explores how IFS therapy can be used to support people with chronic pain by helping them access their core Self and ease the parts of them that are caught in...Read more the pain cycle. It also shows how IFS fits naturally into a multidisciplinary collaboration amongst health professionals. This approach to care recognizes chronic pain often involves physical, emotional, and social challenges, along with related issues like trauma, substance use, social isolation, depression, and anxiety. Less...

Learning Objectives

Differentiate acute and chronic pain.
Identify the difference between nociceptive versus neuroplastic pain.
Describe how parts of the personality can affect chronic pain.
Explain how parts and the brain interact in the development of chronic pain.
Articulate how IFS can help a client reduce the suffering caused by chronic pain.

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for healthcare and wellness professionals who support individuals living with chronic pain. It’s an excellent fit for physical therapists, chiropractors, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, clinical therapists, mental health practitioners, bodyworkers, health coaches, and other clinicians interested in integrating a mind–body approach into their work. Practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and learn practical strategies for addressing the emotional and protective patterns underlying chronic pain will find this training especially valuable. It is also appropriate for professionals seeking fresh, compassionate tools to enhance patient outcomes and expand their integrative care toolkit.

Learning Levels

This workshop is appropriate for those who have taken the IFS Level 1 training, the Online Circle, or studied the IFS model and have a foundational understanding of IFS.
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Friday, January 30, 2026

Live Interactive Webinar

10:00 AM EST - 03:00 PM EST

EARN 5 CE Credit Hours

About the speakers

Nancy Sowell, MSW, LICSW

IFS Senior Trainer

Nancy Sowell, MSW, LICSW, is an IFS Senior Trainer for the IFS Institute. She specializes in the application of IFS therapy to heal mental and physical health problems related to trauma. Nancy is a Harvard Medical School teaching associate at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she has been a clinical supervisor and teacher for over twenty years. As the behavioral medicine program manager working with rheumatoid arthritis patients at another Boston hospital, Nancy co-created an IFS intervention program that enabled IFS to be listed in the National Registry for Evidence-based Programs. Nancy knows both personally and professionally the healing power of compassionate relationship with the body, oneself and other people that enables a return to well-being.

Cat Araya

Shawn Casselberry

Silvia Fischer

Jade Chandler

Beth S Rogerson

Ph.D

Beth Rogerson PhD, has more than 25 years of providing counseling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and children. She is a Certified IFS therapist, licensed in the U.S. as an Independent Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Counselor. Gestalt trained in individuals couples and leading groups. In addition, Beth has been podcasting about IFS for over 4 years. Beth had been a PA Level 1, is a IFS consultant and has facilitated IFS and Mindful Self Compassion Workshops. As part of aging I am now witnessing and embracing myself becoming stronger more confident and self-led.

Licensure: Independent Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Counselor

Imma Lloret, Psychologist

Imma Lloret is a psychologist and has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years in Barcelona, Spain. As the co-founder of the Spanish IFS Institute, she organizes IFS trainings, supervises, and facilitates groups along with her private practice where she provides IFS-based therapy for individuals and couples. Imma also worked as an Associate Professor in the degree of Psychology at UOC (Open University of Catalonia). She is also certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing, and has advanced training in AEDP. IFS has transformed her life and her view of the world and she is honored to be able to contribute to its spread.

HeaKyung Kwon

Dr. HeaKyung Kwon is an experienced psychotherapist with more than 25 years of experience. She has been trained in many different trauma treatment modalities such as IFS, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and AEDP. Among all these approaches, IFS has become the foundation of her work. She received her doctorate degree in Music Therapy from New York University and her Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. She was born and raised in Korea and moved to the US when she was in her 30s. She currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters. She is also a Korea IFS training organizer and is dedicated to planting the roots of IFS in Korea.

Sandy Skezas

Norma Kisaiti

Pilar De La Torre

Agenda

The presentation will be 5 hours long:

10:00 am PowerPoint Presentation: IFS and Subpersonality Parts and Chronic Pain, Q & A

11:00 am Clinical case with discussion, Q & A

12:00 pm Break

12:10 pm Experiential exercise: Finding parts affecting pain, clinical examples

1:00 pm Didactic and discussion: More on IFS Treatment for chronic pain with clinical narrative(s) Q & A

2:00 pm Break

2:10 pm Experiential: Pain Polarization & the Part to Self-Relationship, sharing

2:45 pm Discussion, Q & A

3:00 pm Closing

CE Information - Earn 5 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

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Certification adds a measure of consistency in the practice of IFS by providing a way to recognize those who have effectively demonstrated advanced skills of the model and begins after completion of a Level 1 Training. Please contact Certification@ifs-institute.com with any questions.

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CE Process Info

5 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be offered for this workshop.

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