Any therapist, or for that matter, any client who is working on self-exploration, is aware that there are several, disparate parts to people’s personalities. Sometimes a traumatic experience disrupts the smooth path of a developmental stage, and that young child fails to move forward or grow up. It remains within the person, as a tiny voice, seeking whatever it is that was not given in childhood, from adequate attention to a sense of safety or freedom from being abused.  
 
Other parts might develop to compensate for these parts, creating complications that are difficult to unravel with conventional methods of talk therapy. Examining these parts with an individual is a very effective way of bringing that person’s best intentions, plans, passions, and senses of purpose in alignment with the actions s/he chooses to take. Resolution of the conflicts among these parts is key if the person is to find the peace and productivity they hope to achieve through therapy. 

IFS (Internal Family Systems) was developed by psychologist Richard Schwartz in the early 1990s. Schwartz says that he came upon the technique by listening to his clients. He would hear them say “one part of me wants to do A, but another part wants to do B,” and took such statements literally. He explored these inner voices with his clients, and discovered ways of identifying them and pinpointing their role(s) in the client’s thought process. 
 
The article from Psychology Today provides more detail on IFS. The goal is to see the various “parts” as members of an inner family that must negotiate with and respect the authority of the Core Self. Parts play three basic roles, namely Manager, Exile, and Firefighter. A Manager might want to direct activities, an Exile would be a part the Core Self would rather not deal with, and a Firefighter might act impulsively, perhaps by acting out in anger or numbing feelings with self-abusive behaviors. There can be many sub-parts, such as a rescuer or a procrastinator, or even a spirit guide, but these can each be placed in the three main categories. 
 
In IFS, the client learns how to pay attention to these parts and the way they interact as they go about making day to day decisions. The client works within the confines of the rational mind, becoming increasingly aware of the parts and the way they influence behavior. With this therapy, the Core Self comes to terms with all the parts and can manage them, at least most of the time. There is also some work that involves figuring out when the part emerged, based on the client’s history, or what the client can recall.  
 
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, interesting enough, was also developed in the early 1990s. This practice also works with parts of the individual, but in very different ways. The main distinguishing feature of hypnotherapy is that it is done in an altered state. Clients are induced into a light trance state, whereby communication between the subconscious and conscious parts of the mind can be in communication. 
 
Clients recount a recent situation that brought up a feeling such as shame, sadness, or anger, and then express the emotion. After that, they are invited to go back to a time in the past when they had the same or a similar feeling. Here, they identify traumatic experiences that are at the source of the undesired feelings or behavior. The feelings the client was unable to express at the time of the trauma are then released. The client gets in touch with the erroneous beliefs that may have developed, and how they affected their behavior.  
 
The healing portion of the session gives the client time to work with the younger, wounded part, using the strong adult version of the client to reassure, nurture, and love the child part. Once this is complete, the client goes back with the child to change those old beliefs and behaviors and create affirmations that reinforce the corrective experience. 
 

There is no doubt that IFS is a widely popular and effective form of therapy that works for millions of people. Those with the patience and perseverance to work with their parts and remain vigilantly aware of them benefit greatly from IFS. However, because it works with the conscious, rational mind, it takes a longer time to identify and work with the parts as swiftly as one can with hypnotherapy. 
 
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy™ uses the power of communication between the subconscious and conscious mind to get to the source of the unwanted feelings and behaviors the client may have, and help them to heal right away. The communication with the unconscious mind also helps the client to overcome memory blocks and suppression that may have been put in place at the time of a troubling event. 
 
Although a client won’t be able to work with all the parts in one hypnotherapy session, they are highly likely to get in touch with at least one or two of them, and heal the wounds that produced the unwanted part in the first place. 
 
What’s more, hypnotherapy clients are empowered with the opportunity to process emotions that may be stuck or suppressed. These unprocessed emotions cause a range of physical problems as well as mental distress. Releasing them often relieves chronic conditions caused when the body is put under strain by mental stress. 
 
Hypnotherapy can be used to treat a wide variety of client complaints, as can IFS, but it does it in a way that clears the issues rapidly and completely. Clients not only come to know their parts, they integrate them fully and are able to reframe their old beliefs almost immediately. 
 
Learning a new way of doing therapy is always a good way to expand your practice. When you can do more for your clients, they will recover faster. When their friends notice the changes in them, they are likely to become clients as well. 
 
The problem is that learning a new way of doing therapy can be expensive and time consuming. However, that’s not always the case. 

The Wellness Institute’s Six Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification Program is taught totally online with live teachers and highly skilled assistants. You will receive comprehensive didactic and experiential training that prepares you to use hypnosis and hypnotherapy for: 
 
- self-hypnosis 
- relief from pain and anxiety and trauma-informed treatment of 
 
- codependency 
- addiction 
- sexual abuse 
- mind-body matters 
- eating disorders 
- relationship-related addiction 
- grief 
- childhood developmental and behavioral issues 
 
Within the six days of training, you’ll be guided through conducting two hypnotherapy sessions, and have the chance to participate as a client and observer twice as you practice with your peers. 
 
The Wellness Institute’s Six Day Hypnotherapy Training and Certification Program is an ideal way to add to your skill set, and in many cases, receive CE credit. Advanced programs deepen your skills and enable you to further expand your reach into your community. The Introduction to Hypnosis course is a two-day program that provides the basic skills for hypnosis, so you can decide if you want to take the six-day course. If you do enroll in the six-day program, you will qualify for a substantial discount. 
 
The Wellness Institute offers high quality training at an extremely reasonable price. In a world where more people are exploring their inner workings, hypnotherapy is the skill you need to serve them in the best way possible. 
 

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