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Self-Esteem & Authenticity Specialist: IFS Therapy, Inner Child & Self-Compassion Strategies for Healing Self-Criticism, Core Wounds & Shame

Become a certified specialist in the #1 reason clients come to therapy…

"I just want to feel good again."

As a therapist, you know symptom relief isn't enough.

Trying to "fix" thoughts or boost self-worth doesn't resolve the tug-of-war inside.

Underneath shame, self-criticism, guilt, and even trauma, are protective patterns formed in old survival roles.

Unless you know how to work with those patterns and inner parts, clients stay stuck — no matter how hard you or they try.

This training equips you with tools to help clients finally release old barriers and wounds, so they can reconnect with their authentic selves.

You'll join renowned experts, including Dr. Pavel Somov, Lisa Ferentz, and Jay Reid, who'll give you the skills to move beyond affirmation and sensitively explore traumatic wounds with therapeutic confidence. Using powerful techniques from IFS therapy, self-compassion models, Parts Work, inner child strategies, and more, you'll learn:

  • Somatic resourcing to help clients access inner parts
  • IFS therapy techniques uncover early wounds that shaped your client’s inner critic
  • Tools to help clients embrace self-compassion, set boundaries, and live in alignment with their values
  • How to use art, writing, and breathwork to give creative expression to inner conflicts and parts
  • Trauma-informed techniques to manage everything from binge eating, affect avoidance, anger, and complex trauma
  • The keys to helping clients heal from childhood wounds of narcissistic families and abuse cycles

PLUS, you get a FREE bonus training with Dr. Frank Anderson on using IFS therapy to help manage suicidality.

If that's not enough, this course also meets the educational requirements to become a Certified Shame-Informed Professional, completely free!

…Because this isn't about adding another technique — it's about elevating your practice and becoming the therapist clients never forget.

Self-Esteem & Authenticity Specialist

IFS Therapy, Inner Child & Self-Compassion Strategies for Healing Self-Criticism, Core Wounds & Shame

$1,129.95 Value
Only $299.95 Today (GST Inclusive)!
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Plus, earn up to 24.75 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
What your colleagues are saying about your speakers:
"This was a life changing training. Thank you so much for this. I can say I am a better therapist because of it."
— Amanda G., Social Worker
Five Stars
"Most fine-tuned and practically useful course I have taken in a long time. Lisa's experience is readily apparent and she's an enjoyable character as well as professional."
— Cea W., Counsellor
Five Stars
"Frank Anderson’s presentation and teaching was delivered beautifully it allowed me to see the value of using it in clients and alternatives to the route we are taught."
— Natalie M., Counsellor
Five Stars
"Dr. Somov is one of the best speakers I've ever heard. His ability to truly dig into the nuances of psychology amazes me and really caused me to rethink a lot of ideologies I held."
— Melissa M., Social Worker
Five Stars
"Spectacular training. Not what I expected, but much better and more applicable to my work than I could have hoped for. I think I could watch this training several times and get something new out of it every time. Thank you!"
— Dr. Chloe A., Psychologist
Five Stars
"An amazing training. I learned so much. Lisa Ferentz is so knowledgeable, charismatic and easy to follow."
— Dalia E., Counsellor
Five Stars
"This was an extraordinary presentation. Lisa Ferentz is an entertains speaker with a vast knowledge of her subject matter."
— Patricia R., Social Worker
Five Stars
"Outstanding course. I greatly enjoyed the more philosophical and in-depth exploration of the constructs of guilt and shame. The clinical approaches that were offered and demonstrated were very valuable…The material was intriguing, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. I also really appreciated the pace of the presentation."
— Elza B., Psychotherapist
Self-Esteem and Authenticity Specialist Outline

Master the art of healing inner conflicts – no matter where they begin.  Part 1 helps you to cut through self-doubt, shame, guilt, attachment wounds, and more to start building authenticity and self-esteem in clients.  Take your practice further in Part 2 with Parts Work and IFS Therapy techniques to replace inner criticism with self-compassion.  Part 3 gives you the tools to heal clients from families where narcissism, gaslighting, and scapegoating was present – so they can reclaim self-worth for good.

Part 1: Healing Shame, Guilt, and Self-Criticism to Build Authenticity
Featuring Dr. Pavel Somov
Shame, Guilt and Motivational Apathy
  • Therapy as a trigger and affect avoidance
  • Clinical impasses (underutilisation, stagnation, premature termination)
  • Shame, guilt and a sense of not-deserving
  • Secrets from self and from therapist
Tools for Catalysing Progress in Therapy
  • Normalising, de-pathologising, un-diagnosing
  • Dialectic reframing & evolutionary psychology
  • Mindfulness & metacognition
  • Self-acceptance & self-compassion
  • Neuroplasticity of internalisation
Shame: Clinical Techniques to Move Therapy Forward
  • Debunking the myth of self-sabotage
  • Manage outside judgement with a self-referenced identity
  • Techniques to negate sweeping generalisations
  • Foster self-forgiveness with motivational innocence
Guilt: Help Clients Overcome the Debts of Guilt
  • Differentiate guilt from regret
  • Ordinary perfection & self-acceptance
  • Master the fear of making mistakes
Self-Doubt, Dilemmas & Indecision: Interventions for Clients Paralysed by Uncertainty
  • Normalising strategies to dissipate self-doubt
  • Manage the anxiety of unpredictability with uncertainty training
  • Make decisions easier with the art of arbitrary choice
  • Reframe a dilemma as a choice between two rights
Strategies to Improve Motivation and Autonomy
  • Find a reason-to-change with the change equation
  • Techniques that leverage intrinsic motivation
  • Find freedom-to-change with Choice Awareness Training (CAT)
  • Pattern interruption for habit change – get clients off autopilot
Quiet Your Client’s Inner Critic
  • Varieties of self-deprecation (self-criticism, self-loathing, etc.)
  • Techniques to reframe symptoms as strengths
  • Compassion exercises for problematic habits of self-care
  • Recover from the disease model
Working through Affect Avoidance
  • Exposure, mindfulness & metacognition
  • Top-down & bottom-up emotional self-regulation
  • Cue-conditioning of self-Regulation
Connect Specific Strategies to the Treatment of:
Trauma
  • Damaged goods, survivor’s guilt & avoidance of conflict
  • Somatic interventions to restore the original goodness
  • Strategies to survive without guilt
  • Conflict avoidance: Paper tigers v. real tigers
  • Exercises to rediscover self-worth
Stress and Anxiety
  • Mediate the paralysis of perfection with self-acceptance
  • Non-neurotic, stress-free perfectionism
  • Social anxiety as shame & self-doubt: disapproval inoculation & self-referencing
  • Mindfulness-based, non-anxious self-consciousness
Emotional Eating & Binge Eating
  • How shame pushes clients into binge eating
  • Choice Awareness Training for moderation & presence
  • Self-acceptance strategies for emotional eating
  • Transcend body shame by dis-identifying from the physical
Anger
  • Shame of fear: Shame as a cover for anger
  • The vicious guilt-anger loop
  • Self-acceptance techniques for internal damage control
  • Compassion exercises to let go of anger
Depression
  • Depression as self-exile
  • Shame as a risk factor for suicide
  • Mindfulness for managing rumination
  • Metacognitive silence: From negative self-talk to self accepting non-talk
Substance Abuse
  • Addressing the shame of relapse
  • Self-assertive trigger avoidance
  • Choice awareness techniques for habit modification
  • Build craving/impulse control skill power
Betrayal, Secrecy & Deception
  • Separation & divorce as self-care & progress
  • Secrets from therapist without rupture of rapport
  • De-pathologising the motives behind lying & deception

Research, Limitations and Potential Risks

Part 2: Parts Work to Access Inner Critics & Strengthen Self-Compassion
Featuring Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C
Exploring the concept of parts
  • From Buddhism to IFS therapy
  • “No bad parts”
  • Understanding inner parts and resistance
  • The inner critic’s protective intentions
  • Basics of validating inner parts
Basics of IFS Therapy
  • The core-Self and the 8 Cs
  • Focusing and somatic awareness
  • Accessing the wisest inner part
  • Guiding dialogue between the self and inner critic
  • Experiential: Externalising the self
Starting Therapy with Protective Inner Critics
  • Create an internal safe place
  • Understanding your clients’ inner critic
  • Breath and movement deepen inner critic soothing
  • How to use art therapeutically
  • Experiential writing and drawing
Accessing Inner Parts with Creativity
  • Cognitive reframes for shame and criticism  
  • Somatic resourcing techniques, focusing, figure-eight rock, and physical embodiment
  • Incorporating art into treatment  
  • How to use focusing and somatic awareness to access Self 
  • Using somatic resourcing and art to externalise Self 
  • Strengthening communication between parts 
  • Experiential: Writing exercises for shame
But… is it working?
  • How to tell if parts are feeling more comfort
  • Analysing the efficacy of interventions 
  • Potential risks and limitations
Part 3: Tools to Release Self-Blame, Reclaim Self-Worth and Heal Attachment Wounds from Narcissistic Families
Featuring Jay Reid, LPCC
Relational Dynamics of the Narcissistic Family
  • The psychology of a narcissistic parent
  • The scapegoat child’s function in the narcissistic family
  • How the scapegoat child is made to feel the worthless
Devaluation, Deprivation and Control: The Creation of the Family Scapegoat
  • Devaluation: The child is treated as if they are lower status
  • Deprivation: Emotional support is withheld from the child
  • Control: The child is domineered by the narcissistic parent
  • How healthy developmental goals threaten relationship to parent
  • 8 common pathogenic beliefs held by the scapegoat child
Use a Control-Mastery Theory (CMT) Approach to Treatment
  • Goal of therapy: safely pursue sacrificed developmental goals
  • How and why pathogenic beliefs persist into adulthood
  • Respond in ways that do not align with the client’s pathogenic beliefs
  • Overview of empirical support for CMT
  • Indications and contraindications
Apply a 5-Step Case Conceptualisation Method
  • Step 1: Tailor treatment around each specific client’s goals
  • Step 2: Identify pathogenic beliefs that block progress towards goals
  • Step 3: Understand the past traumas that made those beliefs necessary
  • Step 4: How the client may unconsciously test whether those beliefs are still true
  • Step 5: Respond in ways that helps clients answer “No” to their tests
  • Case studies: Learn to apply CMT’s 5-step case conceptualisation
Strategies for Replacing Self-Blame with Self-Compassion and Self-Worth
  • Specific strategies for validating the survivor’s experience
  • Anxiety management tools to address survivor’s anxiety around success
  • Self-compassion practices to shift clients from self-blame
  • Present-focused interventions to redirect the focus from their parents to themselves
  • Cognitive restructuring exercises to challenge and test pathogenic beliefs
  • Use reflective questioning to explore underlying issues
  • Boundary setting skills
  • Go no contact and other considerations
  • Research, risks and limitations
  • Boundary setting skills to protect themselves from abuse
Click here for course objectives and outline
Self-Esteem & Authenticity Specialist
IFS Therapy, Inner Child & Self-Compassion Strategies for Healing Self-Criticism, Core Wounds & Shame

$1,129.95 Value
Only $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!


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BONUS! $219.95 VALUE, FREE!
CPD Training + Your New Certification
Embracing Suicidal Parts with Internal Family Systems Therapy
Featuring Dr. Frank Anderson

Learn how to approach suicidal thinking and behaviours from an IFS Therapy lens. You’ll examine pieces of the psyche that drive thoughts, feelings and actions and gain concrete strategies to help clients make peace, embrace, and find love for suicidal parts.

Become a Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist!

This training meets the educational requirements to be a Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist. Embrace new credentials and gear your practice toward the types of client you want to help most! Your $149.99 USD application fee is completely free.

*Professional standard apply, see au.evgcert.com/csts for all details.

Meet Your Experts
Pavel Somov

Pavel Somov, PhD is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 25 years of clinical experience working with self-criticism, shame, guilt, perfectionism, eating disorders and anger management.  Dr. Somov is on the advisory board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and has conducted a variety of trainings for mental health professionals both domestically and internationally on applying mindfulness-based interventions to a variety of psychological issues. His work has been discussed in a number of radio interviews and in print publications including Martha Stewart’s Body + Soul Magazine and Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine. Dr. Somov is the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change (PESI Publishing, 2013) as well as a number of self-help books on perfectionism, overeating, and addiction.

Click here for information about Pavel Somov
Lisa Ferentz

Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognised expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologised treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviours in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviours: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

Click here for information about Lisa Ferentz
Jay Reid

Jay Reid, LPCC, is a practicing licensed psychotherapist in San Francisco, CA who specialises helping clients recover from narcissistic family dynamics, especially in the treatment of scapegoat survivors. He has published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals on using Control-Mastery Theory to effectively treat survivors of childhood maltreatment.  Jay works to bring the principles of healing from narcissistic abuse directly to scapegoat survivors. To this end, he runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts weekly videos on recovering from narcissistic abuse. He is the author of Growing up as the Scapegoat to Narcissistic Parents: A Guide to Healing.

Click here for information about Jay Reid
Frank Anderson

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specialises in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

Click here for information about Frank Anderson
Self-Esteem & Authenticity Specialist
IFS Therapy, Inner Child & Self-Compassion Strategies for Healing Self-Criticism, Core Wounds & Shame

$1,129.95 Value
Only $299.95 (GST Inclusive)!
OWN IT NOW
Plus, earn up to 24.75 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! This training course meets the educational* requirements to earn your Certified Shamed-Informed Treatment Specialist (CSTS) certification – so you can show your prospective clients, employers, and fellow colleagues that your training has gone beyond the basics.  Many professionals take pride in certification, displaying it on their personal website, therapist profile and other places.  Best of all, you’ll not only have heightened clinical acumen but be able to curate your practice and serve the clients that intrigue and fill up your cup the most. *Professional standard apply, see au.evgcert.com/csts for all details.

Nah, that’s what this training is for.  In fact, it’s the best part, you’ll learn plenty of powerful IFS and Parts Work therapy strategies – plus, lots of other trauma informed techniques and strategies.  This course gives you a multi-dimensional toolset to reach deeper parts of your clients’ inner worlds, without having to learn a completely new framework.


Immediately when you register you’ll have unlimited access to all course materials – including slides, handouts, videos and any other content.


This training is among the best in our catalog.  Fellow therapists have described it as “life changing”, “thought-provoking,” and as having incredibly applicable skills for working with guilt, shame, and more.  Many therapists who’ve taken this course share that it’s not only impacted their practice by heightening their skill set, but that it has impacted them personally.  They’ve found depth and wisdom, alongside clinical commentary and technique, from the diverse presenters in this course that helped them to embody the most essential aspects of being a healer.

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