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

Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 3 hours of Clinical continuing education training.

Course Instructor: Dreya Blume, LCSW

Recording Date: 05/02/2025