Have you been curious about Internal Family Systems (IFS)? Or maybe you’ve learned the model but still don’t quite trust yourself to use it in session? 

For me, the absolute hardest part about growing as an IFS therapist is realizing how parts led I can be in a session.

A part of me wants to get it “right.”

A part of me is tracking the clock.

A part of me sees the solution and wants to tell my client what to do.

And alongside those parts lives our clinical skills and training. Instead of trying to learn IFS through more information, it’s time for a different kind of training: how to actually be with parts in real sessions.

But, how?

IFS Foundations Lab is a live, affordable Internal Family Systems (IFS) training program designed for therapists, associates, students, and mental health professionals who want practical experience using IFS in real clinical sessions. Through live training, consultation, skills practice, and CE credits, clinicians learn how to confidently apply Internal Family Systems therapy beyond theory and into practice.

Why Internal Family Systems Training Requires More Than Reading

IFS is an experiential model. The only way to truly learn it is to feel it, practice it, and be held through it. And importantly, IFS training requires instruction by someone who will go at the pace your system needs.

You and I both know that reading about IFS is not the same as experiencing it. You can watch a training, read every book, and understand the model intellectually. However, when you sit with a client, you end up feeling completely lost. That’s not a failure on your part. It’s the inevitable gap between learning about something and actually experiencing it from the inside. You need to learn IFS therapy through experiential IFS training.

What makes the IFS Foundations Lab different?

This is not another lecture. The IFS Foundations Lab was built around one core belief: deep, lasting clinical skill comes from experience — not information. Every element of this training is designed with that in mind.

Unlike trainings that focus primarily on teaching the model, this live, affordable IFS training combines in-depth teaching with structured, experiential practice. So, you’re not just accumulating information! Instead, you’re building the kind of felt, integrated skill that actually shows up in session. You are saying yes to experiential IFS training!

What You’ll Learn in This Live IFS Training Program

The IFS Foundations Lab is theory and practice, integrated. Over four live training days and four practice skills groups, you’ll move from understanding IFS conceptually to developing real, embodied confidence in how you use it with clients.

At its core, the IFS Foundations Lab is a live training and consultation program for therapists who want to move beyond theory and learn how to actually use IFS in session. You need skills, practice, and community. The great news? We’ve got all of that for you inside the IFS Foundations Lab!

What’s included:

• Everything you need to build real IFS fluency
• Four live training days, four practice skills groups, 22 CE credits, and a small cohort of clinicians to practice and grow alongside.

Who Is the IFS Foundations Lab For?

Getting into official IFSI Level 1 training is notoriously competitive. The IFS Foundations Lab was designed to bridge that gap. The live, affordable IFS training gives you a high-quality, deeply supported experience of the model right now, wherever you are in your journey.

Does this sound like you?

• You’re a student, pre-licensed professional, associate, or licensed mental health professional
• You’ve intellectualized the model but can’t find the natural flow in session
• You’re not sure when to introduce parts language — or how to do it without sounding clinical and detached
• You freeze when a protector comes up strongly and feel unsure how to respond in the moment
• You’ve tried to follow a protocol and it feels hollow — disconnected from the relational work that actually heals
• You want to actually practice skills — not just absorb more information
• You’re open to learning from others’ experiences, not just your own
• You can hold that we all approach cases differently — and find that generative, not threatening
• You want to build a way of working with parts that feels genuinely
• You’re on an IFSI waitlist that feels years away, but your clients are right in front of you now

Meet Your IFS Training Instructor, Laura Beaver, LCSW

Hi, I’m Laura Beaver, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Texas with over 17 years in the field — and IFS genuinely changed my life, both personally and as a clinician. I have completed IFS Level 2 training through the IFS Institute. This means I bring a deep, structured foundation in the model to everything I teach. I know what it feels like to understand IFS intellectually but struggle to find it in session. That gap is exactly what this lab was built to close.

Before private practice I spent eight years as a full-time professor and still teach as an adjunct. I bring that same love of education to every training I lead, with one important difference. I’m not here to fill you with content. Instead, I’m here to create an experience that changes how you work.

I won’t teach you to do therapy the way I do it. I’ll help you find your own path. And even better, at a pace that honors your system and builds confidence that lasts long after the lab ends.

My goal isn’t to teach you to do therapy the way I do it. It’s to help you find your own grounded, parts-informed path — one that feels natural to who you are as a clinician.

Are you ready to take your next step in IFS Training?

If you’ve been thinking, “I want to learn to do IFS, but I don’t know where to start (or how to go deeper),” this is a simple place to begin! Don’t wait, register today! 

By the end of the IFS Foundations lab:

You’ll leave having actually experienced the model — and knowing how to bring that to your clients.

You’ll leave with more than knowledge.