Objectives:
- Learn a non-pathologizing framework for understanding and healing inner turmoil.
- Help your clients compassionately address and transform patterns that keep them stuck.
- Gain skills for dealing with your own triggers before and during a coaching session.
- Discern when to give a coaching client a therapy referral.
Christine is a licensed psychotherapist and will discuss a fascinating trauma-informed psychological frame to support our understanding of why our clients behave, make decisions, react, lash out, shut down, and/or reach out the way they do.
Parts work is a branch of Internal Family Systems, a therapeutic model founded by Richard Schwartz. IFS theorizes that our minds have multiple parts (or splits due to attachment wounding) and that these different parts express at different times throughout. All humans split off into parts, which aligns closely with what’s happening in our nervous system. In extremely traumatic, pathological cases severe splitting is considered a personality disorder called Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder).
Christine has a Master's in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology; her recent training includes specializations in Internal Family Systems, attachment, trauma, and psychobiological couples work. Christine has been working with individuals and couples for 18 years and is a close friend of Jayson's.
