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CE for Therapists, Counselors, Life Coaches, and Consultants – The Inner Aspect Method
Are you looking for a way to improve your connection with others and get CE for therapists?
Join our flexible, 12-month training on the Inner Aspect Method (IAM) to:
- Understand and overcome the unconscious, self-limiting beliefs.
- Make sure everything in your body is pulling in the same direction, helping you rather than holding you back.
- Discover why things trigger you and explore your distinct patterns of navigating the world. Moreover, uncover intimacy in your relationship with yourself and others).
- Under your guards, defenses, protection, and triggers, you can access your true self – who you truly are.
- Restore mental tranquility, harmony, internal composure, and discernment.
What is the Inner Aspects Method?
The Inner Aspects Method (IAM, pronounced “I am”) is a sex-positive, trauma-informed, identity-affirming framework that therapists and counselors can use with individuals and couples who want better communication and happier lives.
This program is trauma-informed, client-empowered, and intimacy deepening. This is expert clinical training for therapists, counselors, life coaches, leadership experts, and consultants.
We’ll make amends if you don’t get client-empowered individual therapy, counseling skills, and trauma-informed methods.
Why Learn a New Method?
- Trauma-informed and systemic focus.
- Client-empowered and results oriented.
- Intimacy deepening for yourself and clients.
- Expand your therapy services.
- Gain new private pay clients and increase revenue.
How Long is IAM?
One Sunday each month for 12 consecutive months starting in March 2024 at 1-3pm EST, you will invest two hours of your time monthly to learn about the Inner Aspects Method (IAM) and how to apply this framework.
How Many CE Credits Can You Earn?
You can earn 24 continuing education credits from AASECT, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.
You can take this without CEs for a discounted rate. Email info@LCATLLC.com for the coupon code to use at checkout!
Presenters
Francesca Gentillé
Francesca is a clinical sexologist and has more than 20 years of experience as a relationship and sexuality guide and counselor.
The Inner Aspects Method (IAM) was developed by Francesca who has used it to help hundreds of people improve communication and sexual satisfaction in their intimate relationships.
She currently teaches a version of IAM at the International Institute of Clinical Sexology for a dissertation specialization. She has expertise in health education, cross cultural spirituality and non-violent communication techniques.
Francesca helps with presenting problems that include pre-orgasmic conditions, erectile difficulties, painful intercourse, orgasm dysfunction, sexual desire discrepancy in couples, emotional disconnects, communication challenges, childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual trauma.
Francesca has expertise in health education, cross cultural spirituality and non-violent communication techniques. She is a quoted expert in books such as Esther Perel’s “State of Affairs,” Dr Judy Kuriansky’s “The Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex,” a co-author / editor of “The Marriage of Sex & Spirit,” and contributing author to “The Jealousy Workbook; Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships” by Kathy Labriola.
Amanda Pasciucco
Life Coaching and Therapy (LCAT) founder, Amanda Pasciucco, PhD in Clinical Sexology, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Certified Sex Therapist (CST), Certified Sex Therapist Supervisor (CST-S) and Continuing Education Provider. She is an international clinical sexologist and her dissertation was focused on high levels of sexual satisfaction in long-term romantic relationships.
Known as “The Sex Healer” by her clients and colleagues, Amanda has helped transform the intimate lives of those struggling with infertility, sexless relationships, low-desire, arousal, orgasm, and penetration problems. Through her flexible, systems therapy technique and trauma-informed, sex-positive approaches, clients improve their intimate lives, and this often carries into a whole life transformation.
Amanda has been featured in CNN, TLC, Psychology Today, PsychCentral, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and more. Amanda has more than a decade of experience with over 20,000 clinical hours.
12-Month IAM Agenda
IAM Webinar #1:
Identity Archetypes & Microlabels
4th Sunday March 2024
10a-12p PST/ 1-3p EST
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss challenges within the field for building a trauma-informed practice. Case studies and experiential exercises are included.
- Classify the Inner Aspects Method as a framework to use with clients. Evidence-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy approach to deep levels of healing.
IAM Webinar #2:
Unraveling the Trauma Response & Polyvagal Nervous System
4th Sunday, April 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish between using empathy and problem solving.
- Discuss client escalation in session and the 5 Stages of Trauma – Victim, Survivor, Thriver, Server, Embodied Server.
IAM Webinar #3:
Learning About the Wounds We Inherit in Culture
Fourth Sunday, May 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how cultural and social influences determine and impact relationships and family structure.
- Integrate at least one technique to expand their effectiveness in working with clients with diverse cultures to assist in increasing awareness around limiting constructs.
IAM Webinar #4:
Societal Trauma & Using The New Paradigm for Improved Clinical Outcomes
Fourth Sunday, June 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
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State one way the wounding of cultural conditioning impacts sex coaching and trauma therapy.
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Understand clients access to intimacy skills (e.g., social, emotional, sexual), intimate relationships, interpersonal, relationship and family dynamics
IAM Webinar #5:
Intake Session Concepts for Success – Part 1
Fourth Sunday, July 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Strengthen your therapeutic alliance to unpack the intake assessment paperwork with clients.
IAM Webinar #6:
Scales of Trauma
Fourth Sunday, August 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
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Trauma-informed dialogue for completing the intake
- Discuss your commitment to challenges, contexts and privileges.
IAM Webinar #7:
A New Therapeutic Approach to Treatment & Homework
Fourth Sunday, September 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will gain insight into new ways to empower themselves.
- Learn what to ask about clients’ age, religion, ethnicity, family, and cultural context.
IAM Webinar #8:
Most Common Clinical Uses for Inner Aspects Method
Third Sunday, October 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to utilize IAM in a variety of ways for individuals.
- Incorporate games for your clients to enhance their progress.
IAM Webinar #9:
Strategies for Using IAM in Client Sessions
Third Sunday, November 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Utilize IAM for the individual. Meaning, how can be applied for an individual or in groups?
- Creating new archetypes or recovering them. So, practicing with them in psychodrama skill sets.
IAM Webinar #10:
Understanding the Different Inner Aspects and Reflecting them to Clients
Third Sunday, December 2024
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Learn a practice that supports empathy and compassion for pairs.
- Understand how to reflect different syntax, words, body postures, and tones to clients that are indicative of different parts of the client, to help the client feel seen, heard, and understood.
IAM Webinar #11:
Neurobiology of Love and Lust
Fourth Sunday, January 2025
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Formulate emerging visions of relationships that weave together traditional and innovative practices.
- Nurture new relatedness to inner aspects.
IAM Webinar #12:
Boundaries and Ending Treatment
Fourth Sunday, February 2025
10-12 PST/ 1-3 EST
Learning Objectives:
- Examine your own sense of boundaries and empathy with clients around sexuality and eroticism.
- Discuss rituals for completion of therapeutic journey.
Testimonials
After completing the year long inner aspects model training, I would say it’s one of the best trainings I’ve ever attended, both with the format of spreading it out over a year, but also, more importantly, with the content and just the ease of application and the immediacy of benefit, both personally and professionally.
I’m classically trained in structural and Bowenian family therapy. Getting into the mind, different parts, kind of Jungian parts and stuff…that was not something that was taught in grad school.
What I found by going through the training is that it really helped break down and shift communication with couple and family sessions. Especially when we’re dealing with family of origin issues, trauma, or other really big emotions and raw points. I really benefited from learning how to address those things with the inner aspects model.
I found getting the education on the neuroscience behind it, and being able to present that scientific information to my clients was helpful.
The clients I work with really appreciate learning, “Oh… this is how the mind works. This is how our thoughts and everything are tied up in our brain processes and neurobiology.” It helps get their buy in when I start introducing the language of the model, which I think is where it gets a lot of its strength.
I help clients understand all the different parts that are showing up within themselves. Can we name them? Can we get to know them? Can we really see our parts for who they are and how they try to serve us, how they are helping us to survive and then meet them with compassion, meet them without shame, and shine some positive love and light on them.
I work with clients to invite in new parts of themselves, shift the conversation and direct how they would like to show up, how they did show up, and how they can grow from that experience and learn about themselves and continue to grow.
Also personally, with a lot of the training activities we did and content we went through, it’s really hard to not have personal growth with the model.
The model is so intuitive and eye opening that once you learn it, it’s hard to go back to the old way of doing things.
By incorporating IAM in my daily life, it has really helped me bring it into sessions, not just as a professional learning model where “I’m going to show this to you and work with you on this,” but as a person who has been in a lot of the same situations as my clients, and being able to do “self therapy” work with the model to uncover my own blind spots and improve human connection. It brings out rapport, empathy, validation, unconditional regard knowing, “I’ve been there. Here’s my struggle with my parts that came up. Is that true for you?”
I would strongly recommend IAM to anyone who is interested and learning more about themselves and also learning a really cool way of being able to work with clients.
The IAM course has totally transformed me personally and professionally. Personally, it has helped me see the different parts of me that cause internal conflict. And that those parts are not necessarily me. So, in this way, it has healed a lot of shame and projections I’ve felt around past traumas and increased my self-awareness when interacting with other people.
Professionally, it inspired me to create an entire course and my dissertation on it. I’m also in the process of changing how I conduct therapy; to create an individualized 3 month program for my clients using some of the IAM material. So the material I learned in IAM has basically become my entire life, in a very positive way.
If you have any doubts about whether to take this course, do it! You won’t regret it. Amanda and Francesca are a great team and create a very safe, tight container to learn this material while healing personal triggers, if that is your intention.
I have spent years in traditional CE courses with everyone from social workers to psychologists to marriage and family therapists.
And then, Francesca was introduced to us. Amanda and Francesca make an expert team of knowledge between clinical and somatic practices. Their integrity, love, commitment, and dedication to a new approach for her clients separates them from the rest! In one year, I was given a priceless gift. I would have paid three times as much had I known what I would learn… yet I am grateful that I was able to do the class live and receive such value.
IAM has become my go-to therapy technique in my professional practice and also a powerful daily tool to utilize in my personal life.
One of the really amazing things about it is that it targets so many populations. Not only has it changed my life, but I have also received feedback from many clients that it has changed theirs as well.
It allows me to build connections with my loved ones, to understand different perspectives, and to feel and process my own emotions and make more effective choices that align with my current life values.
The Inner Aspects training has been a game changer!
In participating in this training I was able to engage my clients in another level in our therapy sessions.
It’s another tool for my tool box to challenge my own or clients inner narratives and being able to connect where these stories originated in order to be able to understand and bring consciousness.
Rather than focusing on changing ourselves, this is a model of teaching individuals and couples to hold compassion and accountability for themselves in order to foster healing.
IAM training enabled me to help clients find compassion and love for themselves while being accountable and bringing consciousness and insight into their patterns and complexities in order to make the changes they want.
This model has grown my clinical and staff supervisory abilities and has helped me grow as a person as well.
There are some people who are gifted in the art of changing lives.
Francesca Gentille is one of them.
She delivers her messages, life lessons, and art, in terms both embracing and exhilarating.
I have been both student and teacher in a variety of spiritual disciplines and can honestly say that Francesca is up there with the handful of Master Teachers whom I respect for their discipline, their humanity, and their joyous delight in life.
Demo of Inner Aspects Model
