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Introduction to Intimacy from the Inside Out™ (IFIO™): Applying IFS Principles to Couple and Relational Work

Nancy Wonder, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, & Joanne Gaffney, RN, LICSW

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Week 4: July 20-22, 2026

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9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT

30-minute break daily

3 Half-Days (12-Hour Course)

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Course Description

Join us for a three-day introduction to Toni Herbine-Blank’s comprehensive model of working with couples and intimate relationships. Intimacy from the Inside Out™ (IFIO™) is a unique model of couple and relational therapy that integrates intra-psychic and interpersonal work through the lens of IFS. We will provide an overview of the protocols that IFIO™ offers to help couples learn the ways they get stuck in conflict and how to shift from feeling stuck to feeling connected to their partners again.

This course will offer didactic presentations, experiential exercises, and video and live demonstrations. Participants will have opportunities to work with their own parts that come up in relationships and to understand how IFS can be applied in couple work.

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Nancy Wonder, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, & Joanne Gaffney, RN, LICSW

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Nancy Wonder has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations. She receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Nancy Wonder has no non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Nancy Wonder, Ph.D. has been a Licensed Psychologist in private practice in Tallahassee, Florida, for over 20 years, where she offers consultation, individual, and couple therapy. She has been involved with the Internal Family Systems Model for over 15 years. She serves as a senior trainer for Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFS applied to Couple Therapy) and was a former co-lead trainer for the Internal Family Systems Institute. Dr. Wonder has been involved in over 20 trainings involving IFS or IFIO and has presented at the annual IFS conference on various topics, especially on IFIO and IFS applied to sexual issues in treatment. Dr. Wonder contributed a chapter to Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions, entitled “Treating Pornography Addiction with IFS” and in Internal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation, entitled “Making the unconscious conscious in IFS Consultation of sexual abuse, sexual offending, and sexual compulsivity”.

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Financial: Joanne Gaffney has no financial relationships with ineligible organizations. She receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Joanne Gaffney has no non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Joanne Gaffney, RN, LICSW has been practicing psychotherapy with individuals and couples for over 35 years, specializing in the treatment of trauma and addictions. She has been involved with Dick Schwartz’s IFS (Internal Family Systems Model) for over 15 years and Toni Herbine-Blank’s IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out), the application of the IFS model to couple and relational work, for over 14 years. She has assisted at Dick Schwartz’s Couple Retreats for more than 10 years and, also more recently at Toni Herbine -Blank’s Couple Retreats. She lives in Provincetown, MA where she provides Consultation and Couple Therapy. She is currently a Lead Trainer for IFIO.

Joanne appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, for the launch of the book The Ladies Home Journal: Can this Marriage be Saved (1994), to which she contributed a case study.

From her nursing background, she co-authored a chapter titled IFS and Health Coaching: A New Model of Behavior Change and Medical Decision Making in Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions (Sweezy & Ziskind, Eds., 2013). Also, for the textbook, Relationship Power in Health Care (2016), which she co-authored with her husband, she and her husband created and implemented a way for nurse health coaches to include the emotional parts of the patient in their medical health coaching.