Clinicians in this two-hour workshop get practical, hands-on interventions for working with clients’ inner child parts. After an overview of inner child work, participants learn five adaptable techniques for guiding clients to heal childhood wounds and integrate fragmented parts of the psyche, which supports emotional growth and self-compassion. The training blends Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and expressive arts into approaches licensed clinicians can use right away. With playfulness, compassion and creativity, the techniques help clients address past trauma and build adaptive beliefs and emotional regulation today. Participants reflect on their own experience and practice through demonstrations, exercises and interactive discussion.
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: 08/7/2026 - 08/6/2027. 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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