This course is designed to provide you with foundational skills for working with a client’s inner parts. Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Ego State Therapy, and other parts-based approaches, this training will explore how clients’ internal worlds are shaped by distinct subpersonalities, each carrying its own emotions, beliefs, and protective roles. You will learn how to help clients identify, understand, and engage their internal system with curiosity and compassion, fostering deeper self-awareness and healing.
Through a combination of theory, experiential exercises, and case discussion, therapists will gain practical tools for recognizing protective parts, working with wounded inner aspects, and facilitating integration rather than internal conflict. Emphasis will be placed on building a trusting relationship with parts, avoiding common therapeutic pitfalls, and navigating trauma-informed interventions. Whether new to parts work or looking to refine existing skills, this training provides essential techniques for using this powerful approach to support clients in achieving greater internal harmony and self-leadership.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to
- Identify the different roles and responsibilities of a client’s inner parts
- Apply the concept of parts work to different mental health disorders
- Analyze how to best engage with a client’s parts in order to address presenting concerns
Syllabus:
Introduction
Objective #1: Identify the different roles and responsibilities of a client’s inner parts
- History of parts work
- Ingredients of parts work
- Further definitions: Different parts
Objective #2: Apply the concept of parts work to different mental health disorders
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- The inner critic
Objective #3: Analyze how to best engage with a client’s parts to address presenting concerns
- How to interview a part
- Understanding parts’ needs
- Harmony with parts
Summary/Q&A
Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.
For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 3 Clinical continuing education training.
Instructor: Dreya Blume, LCSW
Recording Date: May 2, 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 3hrs 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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