Upcoming Events
IFS, sexuality and gender - Key Concepts
Friday 10th Oct 2pm-3.30pm UK time
How to apply non-normative points of view of sex and gender with your clients. For example, using pronouns correctly, and understanding what misgendering is and its impact on LGBTQIA+ systems.
How to open up a safe space for a more expansive view of LGBTQIA+ identities in your therapy room
To identify the biases that your parts might hold around LGBTQIA+ identities, and to begin moving beyond binary ways of thinking.
How to explore your system with regards to gender and sexuality.
Steps towards IFS neuro-affirming practice
3-hour Zoom workshop with Jude Carn with access to recordings
Thursday 16th October 5pm-8pm UK time
Open IFS Consultation 30th Oct 2025
A space to present, ask questions or simply listen to IFS Clinical Consultations on working with neurodivergent clients
Thursday 30th Oct 2025 5-7pm (UK time)
IFS, Sexuality & Gender - Trauma, Shame and Intersectionality
Friday 7th Nov 2pm-3.30pm UK time
In this lecture, Alessio and Anna-Thomas present five frameworks to understand how trauma, shame and intersectionality impact LGBTQIA+ systems from an Internal Family Systems perspective.
You will learn about major theoretical lenses used to understand how people with marginalised identities, like the ones that compose the LGBTQIA+ umbrella, are burdened by dominant culture. This results in constant higher levels of stress and shame within the system from a very young age.
It is important, when working with LGBTQIA+ systems, to be aware of the specific difficulities and burdens that their system may carry and how they present in the therapy room.
Open IFS Consultation 27th Nov 2025
A space to present, ask questions or simply listen to IFS Clinical Consultations on working with neurodivergent clients
Thursday 27th Nov 2025 5-7pm (UK time)
IFS, Sexuality & Gender - Disenfranchised Grief and Legacy Work
Friday 28th Nov 2pm-3.30pm UK time
n this lecture, Alessio and Anna-Thomas present two key aspects of working clinically with LGBTQIA+ systems affected by trauma and burdens described in the previous lecture.
You will learn about disenfranchised grief, how it impacts parts of LGBTQIA+ systems, and how to support the unburdening process with IFS. We will also explore the experiences of epistemic violence that is specific to LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Additionally, we will give our unique view of legacy work and how specific attention needs to be given to minimise access fatigue experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals, whose ancestors are likely to carry homophobic and genderphobic burdens.
