IFS Coaches Lab
Learn to apply the IFS model to coaching
Are you an IFS-trained Coach or Practitioner who would like to improve your IFS coaching skills?
Ideally, you would like to:
Increase your confidence using the IFS model with clients
Learn how to find flow and rhythm in your sessions
Discover how to create safety and trust in sessions
Help your clients get better, faster results
Are you finding it tricky to blend IFS into your coaching practice?
I’ve been using IFS in my coaching practice since 2019, and over the past 3000+ hours of coaching using the IFS model, I have developed ways to support my coaching clients in individual sessions and groups using the Internal Family Systems model.
I created the IFS Coaches Lab in response to requests from IFS trained and informed coaches and practioners (including therapists) who hired me to support them in their personal development, healing, and growth.
How do you use a therapy model in coaching to help your clients get the outcomes and results they want? How can you leverage this powerful model without becoming your coaching clients’ therapist?
That was dilemma I was faced with. You don’t have to figure this out on your own like I did. Let’s talk about how I can help you build a thriving coaching practice and help your clients get the results they want.
Learn by Doing
Practice using the model
Your skills as a coach or practitioner improve as you actively use the model with on the spot feedback and guidance.
Group Discussion and Q&A
Participate in a rich dialogue among fellow coaches where you can learn from one another and gain new skills and insights.
How to Join the Group
Let’s talk
Complete an application
Let’s talk again
If we fit, join the group
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the intention for the group?
To provide consultation and practice to coaches and practitioners who have been trained in the IFS model.
How will this group help participants?
By practicing facilitation of the model, by observing others in their practice, by offering yourself as a client so others can practice, and by bringing your questions to group discussions, you will improve your familiarity, comfort, intuition, and ease with the model while healing and developing Self-leadership. You can’t expect your clients to do more than you have been willing to do. Nor can you expect your clients to trust you to help them heal and grow if you aren’t comfortable using the model. Participation in this group will help you develop Self-leadership so you can model it and help your clients do the same.
How will this be accomplished?
In each session, I will help you practice presence using the IFS model. Awareness of your own parts and knowing what to do when they are activated will take you from an intellectual understanding of the model to and intuitive sense of it. When facilitation of the model is Self-led, it flows easily. Sessions will include both practice and group discussion. By combining your current knowledge and experience of the model and with ideas and experiences of me and the group, your confidence and effectiveness will expand and grow.
Who is the group for?
This group is for coaches and practitioners who have been trained in the IFS model and wish to use IFS in a coaching setting.
What will happen in the group?
Each session is 90 minutes long. Groups meet on Tuesdays from 9:15 AM to 10:45 PST three times a month (I will post a schedule at least 90 days in advance). Participants agree to confidentiality and other safety protocols which make it possible to experience the discomfort of learning and trying something new.
Sessions begin with a guided internal check-in.
The first session of each month is for Q&A and group discussion. The other two sessions are for practice and feedback. These sessions will be split between two coaches working with another group participant who volunteers as the client. The practicing coach will facilitate an element of IFS coaching with the volunteer client while the rest of the group observes. I will offer feedback and support during and after the facilitation.
Sessions begin and end on time.
There is no required homework but participants are provided with content and exercises that will support their experience.
Are there prerequisites for joining the group?
Group participants have been trainined in the IFS model. A 20 minute conversation will help determine if that training provided a basic foundation for working with clients. The IFS Coaches Lab is not designed to introduce the IFS model, rather it is designed to help develop use of the model in a coaching setting. Group participants must have clients they are actively working with.
What are the commitments when joining the group?
The initial commitment is for three months. Participants are asked to provide 30-days notice when they intend to exit the group.
The initial cost is $700 for the first three months. After that, clients prepay for each month by the first day of the month at $250 per month.
Do participants get a discount on 1:1 sessions?
Yes. Individual clients who are not in groups pay $275 to $300 for individual coaching or consultation depending on their coaching package.
Consultant group participants can schedule up to one individual session per month at a discounted rate of $250. Additional 1:1 sessions each month will be invoiced at $275.
When does the group start and meet?
The group begins on April 1, 2025. This start date may be delayed if there are not at least three registered and paid participants.
Sessions are on Zoom and are held on Tuesdays from 9:15 AM to 10:45 PST.
Groups will remain open to new participants until the group size reaches 8.
Group Fees
$250/month
After your initial three month commitment of $700.