IFS Relationship Skills for Couple and Individual Therapy: Intimacy From the Inside Out

Facilitated by: Toni Herbine-Blank, MSN, RN

Date: May 1 & 2, 2026

Time: 11:00am – 2:30pm (ET)

Location: Live Online via Zoom

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Workshop Description

This workshop offers therapists a practical, experiential framework for working with individuals and couples that helps make sense of conflict through an Internal Family Systems lens. Participants learn how to identify and work with the protective “parts” that show up between partners, support courageous and compassionate communication, and use the relationship itself as a pathway for healing so that sessions move beyond problem-solving into deeper connection, repair, and growth.

The model translates seamlessly into individual therapy and couples/relationship therapy by strengthening clinicians’ ability to track internal dynamics, attachment needs, and nervous system activation that shape clients’ relationships. Through discussion, video demonstrations, and guided practice, therapists leave with concrete interventions they can apply immediately, helping clients (both individuals and those they are relationships with) build regulation, increase self-leadership, and create more secure, responsive patterns of relating.

This workshop is designed for all clinicians who support individuals and couples, and is ideal for therapists seeking practical, IFS-informed, nervous-system-aware tools to help clients move from reactivity and disconnection toward greater regulation, attunement, repair, and intimacy.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this Workshop, participants will have had the opportunity to:

1. Review of the basic assumptions of the IFIO model.
2. Explore the goals of IFS couple therapy.
3. Have a discussion of cultural differences in relation to the needs of couples.
4. Observe video demonstrations.
5. Participate in small breakout rooms for discussion and practice.
6. Learn the power of Courageous Communication and discover how and why the ANS is significant in IFIO couple therapy.

Presenter

Toni Herbine-Blank is a Senior Lead Trainer for the IFS-Institute and owner and director of the Intimacy from the Inside Out© curriculum for couple therapists. Toni teaches, trains and offers workshops, trainings and retreats nationally and internationally. She has co- authored two books on IFS and couple therapy, available on Amazon. Toni is a dynamic presenter known for her warmth, skill and humor. She lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband and a menagerie of animals

Registration

EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE: April 10, 2026

* Students must email a copy/scan of their valid student ID or confirmation of enrolment upon purchasing their ticket to: cmbhworkshops@gmail.com

** A 5% discount is available for groups of 5+ registering at the same time. Please email our Education Team for more details: cmbhworkshops@gmail.com

Registration Confirmation: Please allow 1-2 business days for our workshop staff to confirm your registration. We will email you an official receipt upon confirmation, including further details on workshop format and preparation materials.

Cancellation and Refund Policy: An administrative fee of $75 will be charged for cancellations. For a refund, written notification must be received by April, 10, 2026. Written notice of cancellation should be emailed to cmbhworkshops@gmail.com. Refunds will not be issued after April, 10, 2026. CMBH reserves the right to cancel workshops due to unforeseen circumstances.

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

OPA: Pending.

MDPAC: Approved for 6.5 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits and 1 hour of MDPAC CCI credits (automatically calculated when MDPAC member submits Group CE hours).

OAMHP:Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 7 CECs toward their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.

Participants must attend the entirety of the webinar in real-time to receive a certificate of completion detailing CE credits. Attendance will be noted manually by our workshop staff. Participants who are unable to attend the webinar in real-time may view the recordings once they are released and can be provided a questionnaire upon request to receive full CE credits.