Welcome, IFS Therapists & Practitioners (or aspiring ones) with active
caseloads from around the globe!
If you’re looking for support to become more Self-led, proficient and confident,
you are in the right place.
Consulting over 200 students in my online groups the past few years, spanning 23 countries and 19 time zones, has shown me what is most conducive to your learning, support and development.
My groups are unique by offering separate groups based on your IFS experience level.
AND, NEW FOR FALL ’23: MENTORING CONSULT GROUP LEADERS!!
Free IFS Consult Group Experience
Wednesday September 27, 12:00 or 5:00 pm PT
This 1 hour consult group experience will give you and your parts an abbreviated sample of what a consult group with Laura is like. You may submit any questions or requests when you register. Welcome to our community!
REGISTER HERE FOR ’23-’24 8 MONTH/16H GROUP CONSULT SETS! WE START EARLY OCTOBER!
ALL GROUPS ARE 12-2PM PST/SEATTLE
I want more! Pre Level 1 for students waiting for a L1 (must have completed a multi-day, IFS Intro that you’re ready to build on! e.g. Online Circle, PESI courses, Cape Cod Institute)
Thursdays 12-2PM PST: 10/12, 11/2, 11/30
2024: 1/18, 2/15, 3/7, 4/11, 5/9
INTERMEDIATE: Level 1-2 + grads (within 3 years) Stepping Stones & Thinking Hearts grads are welcome.
Tuesdays 12-2PM PST: 10/10, 11/7, 12/5
2024: 1/23, 2/20, 3/19, 4/16, 5/14
ADVANCED: L2+ Grads (for at least 3 years)
Wednesdays 12-2PM PST: 10/11, 11/1, 11/29
2024: 1/17, 2/14, 3/6, 4/10, 5/8
NEW GROUP for Advanced Clinicians/Practitioners seeking mentoring and support to Launch & Lead their own Consultation Groups If you’re ready to take this leap or already have, this group is for you! (Students may join both the Advanced Group & the Mentoring group.)
Wednesdays 12-2PM PST: 10/18, 11/8, 12/6
2024: 1/24, 2/21, 3/20, 4/17, 5/15
that 8 Months of Small Group Experience, Clinical Consultation & Community
16 hours total Live Group time with direct access to Laura’s experience
SAVE $100 WITH EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: $1300
REGULAR REGISTRATION: $1400 tuition
Refer a colleague who registers for a group & receive $100 off tuition
All times are Pacific Time/Seattle.
Group recordings are available if you miss a meeting (but don’t count towards Certification).
Groups for Certification hours are capped at 6 members.
Group members must have active clinical caseloads, which provide the trailheads for our work together. Members are expected to present at least 1 case for consultation during their Set and submit case consult questions from Laura prior to their consultation.
Groups begin once 6 students are registered. Group hours count towards IFS Certification or Re-Certification if group is 6 or fewer students, per new IFSI Requirements. IFS CE hours are pending approval.
I appreciate the financial, scheduling, and emotional commitment of registering for a group. Some students join a group for the Certification hours. Others register once, twice or repeatedly after experiencing the value and importance of this community for supporting their ongoing professional and personal development. Students build the commitment into their monthly schedule and business expenses and know that investing less than $200 per month into this experience is time and money well spent.
A few partial scholarships are available each Set to individuals experiencing financial hardship, who belong to an under-represented group or are facing US$ exchange rate blues. If you would like to apply for a scholarship please email Laura and describe your situation in a few sentences. We will let you know if a scholarship is available.
Join us as we pause together, welcome your hard-working Healer parts and tend to your IFS questions and challenges. You’ll unblend from and befriend parts and deepen your experience and confidence integrating the Model into your work and life.
The more Self led you are, the greater ease and spaciousness you will embody, and the more effective you will be!
My 25 years as a family systems psychotherapist and supervisor motivate me to offer fellow healers the connection, support and teaching so vital to our demanding work. I have supervised MFTs and IFS Professionals since 2014 and have consulted over 180 students.
Consultation groups are about building community and continuity, offering a safe container for you to share your clinical questions, vulnerabilities and victories. You are not alone in your clinical challenges. And, we can’t do this important work alone, in isolation. I’m committed to providing you and your hard-working internal system the support, teaching and connection it deserves.
All live (not recorded) consultation hours count towards Certification (in groups 6 or fewer) and Re-Certification.
Groups include: Guided Meditation,
Group Process, Case Consultation, Q&A, Didactic Teaching, Experientials, Live Brief Demos
- Increase your IFS Confidence, Competence, and Self-energy.
- Unblend from and Befriend your Caregiver/Helper Parts.
- Reduce burnout, isolation, and clinical overwhelm.
- Watch or experience the Model directly during brief, live demos with Laura.
- Get your IFS Questions Answered.
- Staff Cases with decades of collective experience and training.
- All students are expected to present at least one case for consultation.
- Receive validation and input from international IFS colleagues (from Hawaii, N. & S. Americas, Europe, Asia…!)
- Expand your own Self awareness, Leadership and Presence in a confidential, supportive space.
- Groups fewer than 6 students may towards IFS Certification or Re-Certification.
- Group hours are pending IFSI CE Approval
“I highly recommend joining Laura’s consultation group/s. Her gentle, warm and authentic presence creates safety that encourages curiosity to learn. She seamlessly weaves personal and professional awareness that makes for a truly special experience.” M.F.
Students say Laura’s Consultation groups offer them:
- A wonderful resource to practice, learn and gain support.
- Helpful and heart-opening feedback on clinical challenges.
- A safe and supportive space for discussing challenging cases.
- An opportunity to meet and tend to my own therapist parts.
“Laura is warm, open, gentle and committed to encouraging you in your practice. She offers the wisdom of her experience of IFS therapy as well as inviting this from us. She sensitively facilitates you to consider your inner process.”
~Melanie (UK) BACP ACC Psychotherapeutic Counsellor Level 3 IFS
“Laura’s consult group has been a wonderful addition to my circle of support. I feel safe with Laura at the helm and I highly recommend her groups to my fellow IFS therapists or practitioners. If you are practicing without peer support you are really missing out. Getting feedback from up to 8 others on challenges you are having is incredibly helpful and heart-opening. I have a part that thinks he doesn’t need support. This group has proven him wrong.”
~Everett Considine, Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner and Co-author of “ReZoom” from Bright Line Eating
“Laura so naturally creates this safe, sacred space which invites the group to really drop in deeply and bypass any masky pretenses and connect with real treasure both for our psychotherapy parts but most of all for the nourishment of ourselves as a whole. I walked away with immediate support in using IFS with my clients and also feel rejuvenated, so I’m bringing more Self energy to my clients (and my family and friends and life). I feel honored to sing the praises of Laura and this gorgeous offering.”
~ Shimila Keenum, LCSW
Two students reflect after Laura worked with Nancy’s blended “Worker” part who worries Nancy will “do it wrong” in session:
Sign up for the Interest List to be the first to receive Registration Updates or notice if a seat becomes available in an existing group.
The next set of groups begins early October ’23.
Groups begin once 6 students are registered. Group hours count towards IFS Certification or Re-Certification if group is 6 or fewer students, per new IFSI Requirements. IFS CE hours are pending approval.
Laura Schmidt, LMFT
I’ve worked as a family systems therapist for over 25 years—from Syracuse, NY, to Spokane, WA. I’m deeply committed to doing my own internal work and supporting healing professionals to become more self-aware, proficient, inclusive and ethical.
As an Approved Internal Family Systems (IFS) Clinical Consultant and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, I maintain a private practice, lead international online clinical consultation groups, and in-person workshops and retreats. I’ve worked with nearly 200 consultees spanning 23 countries and 19 time zones in my online groups the past five years.
My IFS foundation was built working individually with IFS Founder, Dr. Richard Schwartz, in 2008. I maintain my own regular therapy and supervision with IFS Lead Trainers, assist in IFS Level 1 & 2 trainings, have co-facilitated an eating disorder consultation group with Lead Trainer, Mary Kruger, LMFT, since 2018, and served as sole Faculty Assistant to Dick Schwartz at the Cape Cod Institute in 2021 and 2022.
My career as a therapist began as a Wilderness Instructor in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. After shifting to indoor, sedentary clinical work with families impacted by sexual trauma and disordered eating, I found myself burned out and discouraged after a decade. Fortunately, discovering IFS in 2008 kept me in the field, as my caregiving parts learned to relax and trust my Self to lead and heal.
IFS and Mindful Self Compassion practices also carried me through a bewildering decade recovering from an invisible traumatic brain injury and navigating the chronic challenges of another hidden health issue, rheumatoid arthritis. My familiarity with long-term social isolation and remote learning became the catalyst to expand my professional focus to serve a wider, global IFS community online. I identify as a white, cis, hetero, married, childfree woman. I am committed to DEI through reflective awareness, ongoing conversations, and taking responsibility for my undeserved privileges.
As a lifelong athlete and former professional road cyclist, I replenish year-round adventuring in nature. My Managers most fully relax off the grid, and I bring that renewed Self energy to my clients, groups and teaching.
Students say they appreciate my energy, presence, vulnerability and the connection and safety I create in my groups. I’ve lived throughout the US, Canada, Germany and call Eastern Washington home, unceded land of the Spokane tribe, Children of the Sun.
I look forward to working with you soon!
Laura Schmidt, LMFT, has worked as a family systems therapist for over 25 years—from Syracuse, NY, to Spokane, WA. She is deeply committed to doing her own internal work to support healing professionals become more self-aware, proficient, inclusive and ethical.
As an Approved Internal Family Systems (IFS) Clinical Consultant and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Laura maintains a private practice, leads international online clinical consultation groups, and in-person workshops and retreats. Laura has worked with over 200 consultees spanning 23 countries and 19 time zones.
Laura’s IFS foundation was built working individually with IFS Founder, Dr. Richard Schwartz, in 2008. She maintains her own regular therapy and supervision with IFS Lead Trainers, assists in IFS Level 1 & 2 trainings, has co-facilitated an eating disorder consultation group with Lead Trainer, Mary Kruger, LMFT, since 2018, and served as sole Faculty Assistant to Dick Schwartz at the Cape Cod Institute in 2021 and 2022.
Laura’s career as a therapist began as a wilderness Instructor in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. After shifting to indoor, sedentary clinical work with families impacted by sexual trauma and disordered eating, she found herself burned out and discouraged after ten years. Fortunately, discovering IFS in 2008 kept Laura in the field, as her caregiving parts learned to relax and trust her Self to lead and heal.
IFS and Mindful Self Compassion practices also carried Laura through a bewildering decade recovering from a traumatic brain injury and navigating the chronic challenges of rheumatoid arthritis. Her familiarity with long-term social isolation and remote learning became the catalyst to expand her professional focus to serve a wider, global IFS community online.
As a lifelong athlete and former professional road cyclist, Laura replenishes year-round adventuring in nature. Her Managers most fully relax off the grid, and she brings that renewed Self energy to her clients, groups and teaching.
Students appreciate Laura’s energy, vulnerability and the connection and safety she creates. Laura has lived throughout the US, Canada, Germany and calls Eastern Washington home, unceded land of the Spokane tribe, Children of the Sun.