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Winter 2024 | Values & Beliefs in the Therapy Room—Through an IFS Lens

Einat Bronstein and Dick Schwartz

The therapy room is a place where we explore our clients’ inner worlds, and their internal and external relationships. This exploration inevitably touches on the moral values and beliefs that govern their lives.

As we share the therapy space with them, our own values and beliefs are forced into the joint space in countless ways. Value-based conflicts can arise between us and our clients, challenge our professional ethical code of conduct, and altogether be extremely challenging for the therapeutic relationship and the safety of the space we share with our clients.

In this program, we will explore the unseen field of values and beliefs in our systems, and gain a fuller understanding of the potential impact of our moral values and beliefs on our presence as therapists. We will also explore the IFS perspective on the this topic, and formulate some practical applications for real life situations in the therapy room.

To earn an IFSI Certificate of An IFSI Certificate of Completion will be available upon completion of this program. Your completion status will be tracked automatically as you progress through the program modules..

You can also earn up to 14 Continuing Education (CE) credits through our partner AMEDCO.

Note: Materials and methods included in this course may include interventions or practices that are beyond your scope of practice. As a professional in your given field, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined by applicable law as beyond the boundaries of your practice, and applying your learning in compliance with your professional standards.  

Live Event Schedule

  • January 3, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. ET Live Demo with Dick Schwartz
  • January 25, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ET Live Q&A with Einat Bronstein
  • February 7, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. ET Live Case Consultation with Dick Schwartz
  • February 29, 2024 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ET Live Q&A with Einat Bronstein
  • March 13, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. ET Live Demo with Dick Schwartz
  • March 21, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ET Live Q&A with Einat Bronstein 
  • April 17, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m. ET Live Case Consultation with Dick Schwartz
  • RESCHEDULED: May 15, 2024, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. ET Live Q&A with Einat Bronstein 

Meet Your Instructors

Einat Avni Bronstein, MSW, graduated from Law school in Tel Aviv University, Israel, and earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work at Washington University, USA. Einat is an experienced psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, families, and groups. She has lived and worked with IFS since the early days of the model, and learned closely and directly from the IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz. Einat is a certified IFS therapist, a certified supervisor and a Senior International Lead Trainer for IFSI, leading Level 1,2 and 3 trainings.

Einat is also the co-founder and co-director of The Israeli Institute for IFS who brought IFS to Israel and trained hundreds of Israeli therapists in the model since 2008. She taught family and couples therapy in Tel Aviv University, presented multiple times at the IFS Annual Conference and led IFS trainings, seminars and workshops all over the world. Einat is married, has 4 children, one grandchild and lives in Israel.

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Dick Schwartz, Ph.D., IFS Founder began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic and he is now on the Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Senior Fellow of The Meadows, a treatment center in Arizona. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. In 2000, he founded the IFS Institute which offers trainings and workshops in IFS for professionals and the general public, both in this country and abroad. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published many books and over fifty articles about IFS.



Meet Your Instructors

Einat Bronstein Headshot

Einat Bronstein

Einat Avni Bronstein earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work at Washington University. Einat is an experienced psychotherapist with over 30 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, families, and groups. She has lived and worked with IFS since the early days of the model, and learned closely and directly from the IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz. Einat is a certified IFS therapist, a certified supervisor, and a Senior International Lead Trainer for IFSI. Einat is also the co-founder and co-director of The Israeli Institute for IFS. She taught family and couples therapy in Tel Aviv University, presented multiple times at the IFS Annual Conference and led IFS trainings, seminars, and workshops all over the world. Einat is married, has 4 children, one grandchild and lives in Israel.

Dick Schwartz

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, is the creator of Internal Family Systems, a highly effective, evidence-based therapeutic model that de-pathologizes the multi-part personality. His IFS Institute offers training for professionals and the general public. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and has published five books, including No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model. Dick lives with his wife Jeanne near Chicago, close to his three daughters and his growing number of grandchildren.

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Program Includes

  • 4 Modules
  • 20 Lessons
  • 14 IFS Credits
  • Program Certificate