Learning to Transcend Trauma

Frank Anderson sits down to talk about the culmination of his career and how it manifested into his newest book, Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems. Dr. Anderson has integrated the basic steps of Internal Family Systems therapy as they relate to the treatment of complex PTSD. In his work, he recognizes how these clients can be some of the most challenging individuals that clinicians encounter because they can activate the clinician’s own intimacy issues.
As Dr. Anderson breaks down the steps of the Internal Family Systems model, he also provides clinicians with tips and tricks to address the roadblocks in treating clients with trauma histories. Transcending Trauma includes the resources and guidance you need to take your practice to the next level and show your clients how trauma blocks love and love heals trauma.
As Dr. Anderson breaks down the steps of the Internal Family Systems model, he also provides clinicians with tips and tricks to address the roadblocks in treating clients with trauma histories. Transcending Trauma includes the resources and guidance you need to take your practice to the next level and show your clients how trauma blocks love and love heals trauma.
Learn to Use Internal Family Systems Therapy to Heal Trauma

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma.
The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.
Included are clinical case examples, summary charts, current neuroscience research, and personal stories that will enable your clients to reclaim self-connection, experience self-love, and regain the ability to connect with and love others. Designed with clinicians in mind, this book offers a comprehensive map to complex trauma treatment that will enable readers to:
The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.
Included are clinical case examples, summary charts, current neuroscience research, and personal stories that will enable your clients to reclaim self-connection, experience self-love, and regain the ability to connect with and love others. Designed with clinicians in mind, this book offers a comprehensive map to complex trauma treatment that will enable readers to:
- Learn how to stay calm and steady in the presence of extreme symptoms
- Discover a different approach to resolving attachment trauma
- Gain confidence when addressing shame, neglect, and dissociation
- Understand the neurobiology of PTSD and dissociation
- Integrate neuroscience-informed therapeutic interventions
- Effectively address medication and common comorbidities
- Incorporate IFS with other models of treatment