Lord Of The Rings War In The North Trainer
Ben Hollinbeck
Carolina Abreu, MA, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist since 2004 and a certified Psychotherapist. She is an Internal Family Systems therapist and trainer. She works in private practice, providing consultation, supervision, and IFS-based therapy for individuals from all around the world.
She has collaborated in multiple IFS workshops, especially within the Portuguese IFS community and the Portuguese Society of Constructive Psychotherapies (SPPC). She assisted in multiple IFS International Trainings and was fortunate to work with and learn from IFS major references.
She loves being a part of and helping to create, support, and expand IFS collective spaces, and communities and is strongly committed to helping more people access, embody, and benefit from this model.
Risa Adams, MD, CCFP is a family physician with a focused practice in perinatal mental health care in Elora, Ontario on the traditional lands of the Attawandaran, Wyandot, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. Risa loves making connections and building IFS community, and is thrilled to be part of an emerging team of trainers in Canada. Having experienced educational trauma herself, she is acutely aware of and sensitive to shame in learning environments, and prioritizes relationship and consent in all of her IFS work.
Jory Agate, LMHC, MDiv., MA, IFS Certified, is an Internal Family Systems therapist, trainer, and consultant with a private practice in Cambridge, MA. Jory is committed to creating a collaborative clinical space that honors the cultural uniqueness of her clients. She specializes in treating trauma without pathologizing individuals for the creative ways they may have learned to cope. Jory had previous careers as a Unitarian Universalist minister and Sign Language interpreter/Deaf educator in the US and abroad. She works in English and ASL with hearing and Deaf individuals, families, couples, clergy, staff teams, and parents of individuals with major mental illness. Jory is a trainer/presenter for the IFS Institute, PESI, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). In addition to her private practice, she provides training and consultation in IFS therapy, cultural agility, sexuality education, leadership development, and group dynamics. The mother of two young adults, one hearing and one Deaf, she lives with her wife and their pandemic puppy in Cambridge, MA.
Galit Arad-Trutner, MSW, LICSW is a certified IFS therapist in private practice in Bellevue, Washington. She works with individuals, couples, and groups. Galit is passionate about working with gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation related trauma, multicultural families, and intersectionality of privilege and oppression.
Originally from Israel, Galit has experience working in both Israel and the US in various settings including hospitals, community mental health, justice system, and sexual trauma. She is fluent in Hebrew and English.
Osnat (Ossi) Arbel, PhD, LMFT is a Lead Trainer in Israel. As the Co-founder of the Israeli Institute for IFS she is training, supervising, and facilitating groups while living the IFS model both personally and professionally. In her private practice she provides IFS-based therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Arbel is an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor currently dividing her time between Israel, and Colorado. In Israel she is teaching MFT courses at Tel-Aviv University and Tel-Hai Academic College and supervising MFT practicum courses. In Colorado she holds an Assistant Professor appointment at Argosy University/Denver campus, teaching at the Counseling and MFT programs. Visit her on the web: www.ifs-israel.org ; On facebook: facebook.com/DrOsnatArbel ; Join her on LinkedIn: il.linkedin.com/in/oarbel
Brenda Aufderhar, RN, LICSW, IFS Certified, is in private practice in Spokane, Washington, USA. She has used IFS since 2000 with individuals, couples, therapy groups, and integrated IFS into play therapy with traumatized children in a community health center. Her passion for including the body in IFS therapy is informed by her training as a nurse, along with her Hakomi and Craniosacral Therapy certifications. Being raised in South America for 10 years, Brenda marinated in other cultures that permanently broadened her sense of others and added depth and flavor to her inner landscape of parts.
Dawn Balcazar, Ph.D. is a doctoral level clinical psychologist, certified IFS therapist, and IFS approved consultant in private practice remotely and in person in Massachusetts. She received her BA from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from University of MA/Amherst and has been a clinical supervisor at The Trauma Center and Wellesley College. Alongside working within the IFS model, Dawn specializes in psychological trauma, bereavement and enjoys working with the diverse local college student population, particularly first-generation students. Dawn is a nature lover, hiker, sailor, and a dedicated animal rescuer who runs a Caribbean based non-profit cat shelter and rescue.
Mona Barbera, PhD, CC, is a psychologist in private practice in Rhode Island. She offers IFS couples therapy, IFS couples workshops and is the author of the award-winning IFS relationship book, Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection into Intimacy. She is a former board member of the New Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, and is trained in EMDR and Imago Relationship Therapy. She is an Assistant Director and Shambhala Assistant Director for Shambhala Buddhist meditation.
Requina Barnes, LICSW, has been in the field of social work for over 16 years. She has a private practice and works with adults and couples focusing on attachment, codependency, relationship challenges and trauma. She practices from an IFS lens with her clients. She is an adjunct professor and teaches social work classes at Boston University and Curry College.
Yoav Bartov holds a Master of Social work (MSW) from Tel-Aviv university and is a gradyate of the university three-year program in couples and family therapy. For years Yoav worked with the welfare department in cases with abused and neglected minors, eventfully leading a team of social workers focusing on that topic.
Now Yoav is focused solely on his private practice and leading IFS trainings. In his private practice he works with couples families and individuals, mainly with a background of trauma and/or neurodiversity. Yoav also give individual and group consultations and supervision to therapist and other mental health professionals, especially on the IFS model and working with neurodiverse clients.
Ann-Katrin Bockmann, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and speech therapist, certified IFS and Somatic IFS therapist and IFS approved clinical consultant. She works at the Institute of Psychology at Hildesheim University (Germany) and in private practice, remotely and in person with clients of all ages and from different socio-cultural backgrounds (individuals, couples and groups).
Her special focus is on bringing IFS into the world outside of psychotherapy (IFS Application Integrity Network, Self-Leadership Collaborative), working with children, adolescents and their families from an early age on and integrating IFS, spirituality and the body.
Frances D. Booth, LICSW is a Certified IFS Therapist, Consultant, Trainer. Her practice specialties are trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, medical dis-ease and attachment disorders. She graduated from Cornell University (with honors) and Simmons School for Social Work and has held adjunct faculty positions at Smith College School for Social Work, Tufts Medical School, and The William James College. She loves to sing, dance, bike, run, sail, read, laugh, dine, enjoy the arts and spend time with grandchildren.
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.
Denise Caldwell, LCSW, is a certified IFS therapist in private practice in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, USA. She is also trained in the IFIO model and works with individuals and couples in her private practice. She is certified as a Structural and Contextual family therapist and has used play and sand therapies in the past with children, teens, and families in her 40 years of social work experience. She is a consultant and supervisor for individuals for IFS and IFIO clinicians. Her goal is to make changes for equality and opportunity for as many individuals in her own community as well as on a larger scale through teaching and involvement with groups devoted to change. She lives with her wife and dogs and loves to kayak, bike, swim and take relaxing walks in nature. She loves all types of music and singing at her local church.
She received her masters in Systems Counseling in 2009 from Bastyr University in Seattle, and has worked in community mental health and private practice since then. Anala created the first online IFS-Intro-Training in Spanish course, and is actively invested in growing IFS within the Spanish speaking community.
Besides IFS and IFIO, Anala has been trained in psychedelic therapy at the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and in Indigenous Medicine by Amita Academia Indgena in Mexico. Before coming to IFS, she specialized in couples therapy using EFT, Gottman Method and Relational Life Therapy.
Anala is originally from Guadalajara, Mxico, lived in Seattle for 22 years and is now sharing time between Mexico and Seattle. In her free time she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, dancing, hiking and eating delicious food and desserts.
Analia Castaos-Davis (ella, ella, ella) es nuestra primera formadora Latinoamericana en el Instituto IFS de Estados Unidos. Es consultora y psicoterapeuta certificada en IFS. Bilinge en Espaol e ingls y bi-cultiral.
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