This two-hour workshop-style training offers practical, hands-on interventions for engaging clients’ inner child parts. Beginning with an overview of inner child work, participants will learn five adaptable techniques to guide clients through healing childhood wounds and integrating fragmented parts of the internal psyche, facilitating emotional growth and self-compassion. Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and expressive arts, this training provides a rich blend of approaches that can be immediately implemented in practice by licensed clinicians. Infused with playfulness, compassion, and creativity, these techniques not only help clients address past trauma but also support the development of adaptive beliefs and emotional regulation in the present. Participants will engage in their own self-reflection and hands-on practice through active demonstrations, experiences, and interactive discussion during the workshop.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to
- Define the concept of the “inner child” and explain its relevance in therapeutic settings.
- Identify appropriate scenarios for implementing inner child interventions in counseling
- sessions, ensuring ethical and effective practice.
- Demonstrate the application of at least three inner child interventions for therapy,
- incorporating techniques from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement
- Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and expressive arts.
Syllabus:
Introduction
Objective #1: Define the concept of the “inner child” and explain its relevance in therapeutic settings.
- Internal Family Systems concept of parts work
- Burdens and negative cognitions that parts carry
- Trauma and emotional development
Objective #2: Identify appropriate scenarios for implementing inner child interventions in counseling sessions, ensuring ethical and effective practice.
- Window of tolerance
- Emotional regulation
- Self-Energy
Objective #3: Demonstrate the application of at least three inner child interventions for therapy, incorporating techniques from Internal
- Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and expressive arts.
- Comic Strip Reparenting
- Core Memory Tracing
- Rainbow Art Journal Page
Summary/Q&A
Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.
For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 Clinical continuing education training.
Instructor: Sarah Czopek, LPC
Recording Date: October 4, 2025
CEUS On-Demand, LLC, provider #2274, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/7/2025 - 08/6/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 2hrs Clinical continuing education credits.
CEUs On-Demand, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEUs On-Demand, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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