Professional training
Concinnity Training
Professional training in Internal Family Systems informed practice, somatic awareness, and trauma informed therapeutic presence.
Concinnity is the professional training arm of Trauma Release Centre, created for therapists and helping professionals who want to bring greater depth, safety, and compassion into their work.
Through workshops, experiential training, and clinical supervision, Concinnity supports practitioners to understand protective patterns, work with parts safely, strengthen therapeutic presence, and integrate Internal Family Systems informed principles into their existing practice.
The harmonisation of parts. The integration of wisdom. The elegant fitting together.
Concinnity speaks to the way different parts, perspectives, and forms of wisdom can come together into something more coherent and whole.
In clinical practice, this matters deeply. Clients often arrive with inner conflict, protective responses, nervous system activation, relational wounds, and parts of themselves that feel difficult to understand. Practitioners may also notice their own parts becoming activated in the work.
Concinnity training supports professionals to bring more clarity, steadiness, and compassion to this complex inner terrain.
Guiding clients safely, with IFS informed practice.
Internal Family Systems offers a compassionate framework for understanding the inner world. Rather than pathologising symptoms or pushing for change, IFS informed practice helps practitioners recognise the protective intention beneath behaviour, emotional responses, and survival strategies.
Concinnity trainings are designed to help professionals move beyond theory and bring this approach into real therapeutic practice with safety, structure, and care.
Recognise protective patterns
Learn to identify protective parts in clients with curiosity, compassion, and clinical steadiness.
Create safety and stability
Understand how to pace the work so clients are not pushed beyond what their system can manage.
Work with complexity
Apply IFS informed principles to trauma, addiction, relational wounds, shame, and nervous system activation.
Strengthen practitioner presence
Develop greater awareness of your own therapist parts, countertransference, and capacity to remain grounded in the work.
What becomes possible through Concinnity training.
Confidently bring IFS informed principles into client sessions.
Feel more equipped to work with trauma, addiction, and complex relational wounds.
Deepen your understanding of protective parts and wounded parts.
Strengthen your ability to embody calm, curiosity, clarity, and compassion in clinical practice.
Recognise the hidden impact of covert and vulnerable narcissistic relational patterns.
Integrate IFS informed practice into your existing modality or therapeutic approach.
Grow your confidence in navigating countertransference and therapist parts.
Join a professional learning community committed to compassionate, lifelong practice.
The right training does not only add techniques. It changes how we listen, how we understand protection, and how we hold the person in front of us.
Experiential, practical, and deeply respectful.
Concinnity training is designed to be more than information. Practitioners are supported to experience the model from the inside, reflect on their own parts, observe demonstrations, practise skills, and consider how the work applies to real clinical situations.
The learning environment is calm, respectful, and intentionally paced. Participants are not pushed into disclosure or personal processing beyond what feels appropriate. The emphasis is on safety, choice, professional integrity, and embodied understanding.
Teaching
Clear teaching that makes the IFS model accessible, clinically relevant, and grounded in practice.
Demonstration
Opportunities to observe how the model can be applied with care, pacing, and therapeutic presence.
Practice
Guided experiential exercises to help participants develop confidence and internal familiarity with the model.
Integration
Reflection and discussion to support application within each participant's own professional context.
Concinnity training pathways
IFS One Day Workshop
An introduction to the Internal Family Systems model.
This one day online workshop introduces the core principles of the Internal Family Systems model and explores how they can be applied in both personal and professional contexts. This workshop is suitable for practitioners who are new to IFS or who want a clear, accessible introduction before moving into deeper training.
You will learn how to:
- • Recognise different parts of the inner system.
- • Understand protective responses with compassion.
- • Explore the qualities of Self energy, including calm, curiosity, compassion, clarity, courage, creativity, connection, and confidence.
- • Begin to understand unblending and how to meet parts with respect.
- • Integrate IFS concepts into clinical work with safety and care.
IFS and Somatic Embodiment Training
A two day professional training in IFS informed practice and body based awareness.
This two day professional training takes practitioners beyond the basics and supports a deeper understanding of IFS informed practice, somatic awareness, and therapeutic presence. Through teaching, demonstration, reflection, and experiential practice, participants develop greater confidence in bringing parts work into clinical settings in a safe and embodied way.
You will learn how to:
- • Work safely with protective parts and wounded parts.
- • Understand how parts and nervous system states interact.
- • Access and embody Self energy in the therapeutic relationship.
- • Support clients without rushing into vulnerable material too quickly.
- • Create the conditions for safe and meaningful therapeutic work.
- • Integrate IFS informed practice into your existing modality.
IFS and Addictive Patterns
A one day workshop for understanding addictive patterns through an IFS informed lens.
This one day workshop explores how Internal Family Systems informed practice can transform the way practitioners understand addictive behaviours. Rather than viewing addictive patterns as simply destructive or resistant, this training explores how these behaviours may function as protective strategies that manage pain, overwhelm, shame, or unmet needs.
You will learn how to:
- • Recognise addictive behaviours as protective responses.
- • Understand the role of firefighter and manager parts in compulsive patterns.
- • Respond to addictive patterns with compassion and clinical clarity.
- • Support clients in safely approaching the pain beneath addiction cycles.
- • Integrate nervous system awareness and Self led compassion into recovery work.
- • Develop an IFS informed framework for working with addiction in practice.
Drawn to What Hurts
Understanding why clients return to harmful relationships.
Many health professionals find themselves sitting with clients who return, again and again, to relationships that harm them. Clients who cannot explain why they stay, who make progress and then go back, and who leave the therapist feeling stuck alongside them. This one day workshop gives you a clear clinical framework for understanding why this happens and what to do about it. Through an IFS informed and polyvagal lens, it examines the protective patterns that keep clients returning to harmful relationships and how these show up in the therapy room.
You will learn how to:
- • Understand the safety seeking system and why familiar threat feels safer than genuine safety.
- • Apply the IFS framework clinically, identifying managers, firefighters, exiles, and Self.
- • Recognise attachment wounding as the blueprint for harmful relationships.
- • Work with the three relational configurations and their polyvagal sub-types.
- • Use five clinical tools including parts based inquiry, unblending, and somatic tracking.
Who Concinnity training is for
If you sit with clients who carry complex inner worlds, who are stuck in patterns they cannot explain, who protect themselves in ways that sometimes confuse even them, this training was made for you. Concinnity training is designed for therapists, counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, addiction practitioners, somatic practitioners, yoga therapists, trauma-sensitive movement practitioners, health professionals interested in trauma-informed care, and coaches working within an appropriate scope of practice.
These trainings are professional development opportunities and are not a substitute for formal IFS Institute certification or therapy training.
What professionals say
"IFS offers a remembering, a shimmering, benevolent, and skilled landscape that we once knew but had lost access to amidst the mist. Within this work, the kiritaki and I remember and inhabit our shared humanity, moving beyond the problem saturated and diagnostic positioning so often defined by DSM language. Introducing IFS enlivens a diverse and intelligent internal community within the kiritaki, now recognised with compassion and curiosity. For me, this deepens trust in Self and in the protectors, exiles, and firefighters that make up the inner system. It offers a language, insight, and orientation that allow both kiritaki and therapist to explore the world with compassionate regard for all parts. In doing so, the world of recovery expands, rich with new possibilities, the legacies of the kiritaki, the promises held in the states of Mauri, the pursuit of wellbeing, and the ongoing journey home."
Merrill, Therapist, Social Worker, Researcher and Supervisor
"Angela brings a beautifully compassionate presence that shows up each week to encourage and affirm everyone in her trainings. I appreciated her intellectual part that clearly explained the intricacies of IFS, and her wise, confident part that demonstrated how powerfully this model can support both us and our clients. Through Angela's teaching, I have come to see that every part of myself and my clients simply wants to be understood for the role it plays. My clients now recognise that their protector parts are trying to help in their own way, which has brought greater compassion and understanding when those inner voices appear. Thank you so much, Angela, for creating such a safe and affirming learning space."
Nicola, Counsellor and University Lecturer
"I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the IFS model. It is clear that Angela not only knows this model thoroughly but teaches it with great passion and clarity. The opportunity to practise the model, receive feedback, and observe others was invaluable. It was inspiring to see how each participant could bring their own personality and strengths into the process. The course provided a genuinely safe space to learn and grow. I felt supported by both Angela and my fellow participants throughout. Angela's responses to our questions were always clear, thoughtful, and deeply informative."
Rebecca, Psychotherapist
"The IFS and Somatic Embodiment Training was more than just a course, it was a life changing experience. Angela created an environment for learning and growth unlike anything I have ever encountered. She is approachable, responsive, welcoming, and genuinely loving. Her depth of knowledge and experience as an IFS therapist shines through in every session. Even with almost no prior experience, these twelve weeks gave me the confidence to begin offering this beautiful method of healing. I went in to learn about IFS and came out a different person. I cannot recommend this training highly enough."
Monica, Yoga Teacher and Coach
Training with Angela M Carter
Angela M Carter is a trauma therapist, author, and founder of Trauma Release Centre. She works primarily with Internal Family Systems informed therapy and brings more than thirty years of experience across therapy, social work, trauma recovery, relational healing, and professional training.
After many years of clinical practice, Angela saw how often traditional approaches missed the deeper protective patterns beneath distress. Survivors of trauma and relational harm were often left feeling unseen, while many practitioners felt underprepared to work safely with complex inner systems.
Angela's work brings together IFS informed practice, autonomic nervous system awareness, somatic embodiment, relational trauma understanding, and compassionate therapeutic presence. Through Concinnity, she supports practitioners to bring these principles into their work in ways that are grounded, safe, and deeply human.
Informed by professional training and clinical experience
Concinnity training is shaped by Angela's professional background in Internal Family Systems informed therapy, autonomic nervous system awareness, HeartMath, trauma informed body based practice, relational trauma, and more than thirty years of therapeutic experience.
Concinnity trainings are independently created and are not formally endorsed by the IFS Institute, HeartMath Institute, Trauma Research Foundation, or any other training organisation unless explicitly stated.
Register your interest in Concinnity training
If you are interested in upcoming Concinnity workshops, professional trainings, or supervision opportunities, you are welcome to register your interest.
You can let us know which training you are interested in, your professional background, and whether you would like to be notified when new dates are released.
Frequently asked questions
Bring more clarity, compassion, and steadiness into your work.
Concinnity training supports practitioners to understand the inner world with greater depth and to work with protective patterns in ways that are safe, respectful, and clinically grounded.