Play Your Parts℠ at Mainline Counseling & Wellness Center
2023-06-02 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Zoom Workshop, NY, United States
Valerie will present an overview of the hybrid Play Your Parts℠ approach in this experiential workshop utilizing psychodrama and IFS.
Participants will:

learn fundamentals of IFS and psychodrama
learn one technique to tap into therapist Self energy
participate in an experiential exercise to “play a part” that you can use with clients

Sign up through Mainline Counseling & Wellness Center here

Deer Hollow Recovery Play Your Parts℠ Training
2023-10-19 - 2023-10-20 | Deer Hollow Recovery, 12608 S. 125 W, Draper, UT, 84020, United States
Valerie will train staff in the hybrid Play Your Parts℠ method at Deer Hollow Trauma Treatment Center.

2023 IFS Institute Conference
2023-10-28 | NY
Valerie will be presenting her Play Your Parts℠ workshop at the 40th annual IFS Conference in Denver CO.

Onsite Workshops and Release Recovery Play Your Parts℠ Training
2023-11-17 | Release Recovery, 3020 Westchester Ave - 4th Floor, Purchase, NY, 10577, United States
Valerie will train Release Recovery staff and guests in her hybrid Play Your Parts℠ method at Release Recovery in Purchase, NY.
To register:
https://app.ce-go.com/onsite-one-day-training-in-purchase-ny

Play Your Parts™ Workshop - IFS NY/NJ Metro Group
2024-05-17 11:30 - 15:00 | Balance Arts Center, 151 W. 30th St., New York, NY, 10001, United States
Valerie will present her introductory Play Your Parts™ training workshop for IFS therapists and IFS practitioners.
Attendees must have basic knowledge of Internal Family Systems. Level I training is recommended.
Participants will learn fundamentals of psychodrama and ways to blend this modality with IFS. This workshop is highly experiential.
Please email Karen Berman here for registration information.

Befriending Your Anxious Parts in Action - ASGPP Conference
2025-04-02 | NY
Valerie will present a half-day training workshop, Befriending Your Anxious Parts in Action, at the 83rd annual American Society for Psychodrama & Group Psychotherapy Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Life is becoming increasingly stressful for all of us. This workshop will focus on getting to know and even befriending our anxious parts that often cause us distress and shame. Participants will learn, through an Internal Family Systems framework, how to increase curiosity and compassion for their anxious parts by externalizing them using psychodrama techniques.
Learning Objectives:
– Identify basic principles of Internal Family Systems, including the concepts of Self and parts, and ways to externalize them with psychodrama.
– Distinguish between parts that carry anxiety and those that are polarized with them. Participants will receive at least
two tools to help them unblend with their own anxious parts, and those of their clients.

Rooted in Resilience - Onsite Workshops NYC Alumni Event at The Inner Stage
2025-05-14 17:15 - 19:30 | The Inner Stage, Virtual, NY, United States
Calling all NY/NJ/CT Onsite alumni! Valerie will be facilitating an experiential workshop designed to help you reconnect with the Onsite experience. Join fellow Onsite alumni at the first NYC area alumni event since 2020.
You’ve done the work. You’ve experienced the transformation. But in the busyness of life, it’s easy to drift from the tools and insights that once felt so clear.
That’s why we’re bringing Onsite to you!
Join us for an immersive evening event led by an experienced facilitator, designed to help you reground, regulate, and build resilience. Through guided experiential exercises, you’ll reconnect with the foundational tools from your time at Onsite while also gaining new insights and practical strategies to support your continued growth. This experience will help you integrate what you’ve learned in deeper, more meaningful ways.
This event is open to all alumni of Onsite Workshops, Intensives, Milestones, and the Onsite Wellness House.
Onsite Alumni Register here
Valerie has been an experiential therapist for almost 30 years and became a group leader at Onsite in 2012. She has run their NY area alumni groups since 2015.

Befriending Your Anxious Parts in Action - IFS Conference
2025-09-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Q Center, 1405 North Fifth Avenue, St. Charles, IL, 60174, United States
Valerie will present a workshop entitled Befriending Your Anxious Parts in Action at the 2025 IFS Conference in St. Charles, IL.
We are living in polarized times and many of us feel blended with our anxious parts more than ever. In this highly experiential workshop, IFS practitioners will be introduced to the fundamentals of psychodrama, and how to integrate it with the IFS model. Participants will learn the Play Your Parts℠ method, which uses psychodramatic techniques to externalize parts.
The workshop will focus on befriending our anxious parts by identifying and working with polarizations that may block the unblending process. A full demonstration of a Self-led psychodrama will be offered, in which a participant can externalize and unblend from anxious parts and those polarized with them.

Play Your Parts® at Inner World Collective
2026-02-13 14:00 - 16:00 | NY
Valerie will be presenting an affordable two-hour virtual workshop on her Play Your Parts® method combining IFS and psychodrama for Inner World Collective.
