Professional training
IFS and Somatic Embodiment Training
A two day professional training with six months of fortnightly group consultation.
Concinnity IFS and Somatic Embodiment Training has been created for professionals who want to bring more depth, safety, and confidence into their client work.
Across two live online training days, you will explore how Internal Family Systems informed practice, somatic awareness, and nervous system understanding can work together to support safer, more compassionate therapeutic change.
This training is practical, experiential, and relational. It is designed to help you move beyond theory and begin embodying the model in a way that feels clear, grounded, and clinically useful.
Concinnity trainings are independently created and are not formally endorsed by the IFS Institute, HeartMath Institute, or the Trauma Research Foundation.
Bring IFS alive in your practice.
Many professionals understand the theory of trauma, protection, and nervous system responses, yet still feel unsure how to work with these processes safely in the room.
This training was created for that gap.
Concinnity brings together IFS informed practice, somatic embodiment, and autonomic nervous system awareness in a clear, practical, and experiential format. You will learn how to recognise protective responses, work with the body as part of the healing process, and strengthen your own therapeutic presence so clients can feel safer to explore what has been held inside.
The training includes two live online days followed by six months of fortnightly group consultation. This ongoing support helps you integrate the learning into real practice, rather than leaving you to work it out alone.
Who this training is for
This training is designed for professionals who want to deepen their ability to work with internal systems, body based awareness, and trauma informed therapeutic process.
Therapists.
Counsellors.
Psychologists.
Psychotherapists.
Social workers.
Somatic practitioners.
Trauma informed yoga teachers.
Health professionals.
Coaches working within an appropriate scope of practice.
Practitioners wanting to integrate IFS informed principles into their existing modality.
You do not need to be formally trained by the IFS Institute to attend. This training is designed as professional development in IFS informed practice, somatic embodiment, and clinical application.
This training may support you if...
Feel more confident guiding clients through emotional intensity.
Sense what lies beneath your sessions and approach it safely.
Understand protective responses without pathologising them.
Integrate body awareness into parts work.
Bring steadiness, curiosity, and compassion into your sessions.
Notice when your own therapist parts become activated.
Want training with practice, supervision, and community.
Ready to embody IFS in your work.
What you will learn
IFS informed foundations
Deepen your understanding of parts, Self energy, protective responses, wounded parts, unblending, and the importance of pacing.
Somatic embodiment
Learn how body awareness, sensation, breath, posture, and nervous system cues can support safer therapeutic process.
Working with protection
Recognise how protective parts show up through avoidance, pleasing, intellectualising, control, shutdown, emotional reactivity, and inner criticism.
Safety and stabilisation
Understand how to create enough safety before moving towards vulnerable material, so clients are not pushed beyond what their system can manage.
Therapeutic presence
Strengthen your ability to remain calm, clear, compassionate, and connected when strong emotions or protective responses arise.
Clinical integration
Explore how to integrate IFS informed and somatic principles into your existing therapeutic modality and professional scope.
Experiential learning in a small, supported cohort.
This training is intentionally small, with a maximum of twelve participants. The group size allows for interaction, practice, questions, and a stronger sense of relational safety.
The training includes teaching, live demonstration, guided practice, role rotation, discussion, and reflective integration. Participants will have opportunities to experience the model from different positions, as practitioner, client, and observer, while being supported to stay within their own professional and personal boundaries.
This is not a training where you simply receive information. It is a space where the model becomes felt, practised, and integrated over time.
Teaching
Clear teaching that makes the IFS model, somatic awareness, and nervous system principles accessible and clinically relevant.
Demonstration
Opportunities to observe how the work can be applied with care, pacing, consent, and therapeutic presence.
Practice
Guided role practice to help you build confidence and understand the model through direct experience.
Integration
Reflection and consultation to support application within your own professional context.
The path to integration
Join the training cohort
Reserve your place in a small online group of professionals committed to safe, compassionate, and embodied learning.
Learn and practise the model
Across two live training days, you will explore IFS informed practice and somatic embodiment through teaching, demonstration, guided practice, and reflection.
Continue with group consultation
After the training, you will continue integrating the work through fortnightly group consultation for six months, supporting confidence, practice, and professional community.
What is included in the training
Two full days of live online training.
IFS informed teaching and clinical application.
Somatic embodiment practices.
Autonomic nervous system awareness.
Live demonstrations.
Guided experiential practice.
Small group role practice.
Reflective integration.
A small cohort of up to twelve participants.
Six months of fortnightly group consultation.
Professional community and ongoing support.
Recordings available for limited personal review.
Training resources and practice materials.
The six months of group consultation are included to support real integration into practice. This ongoing support is a central part of the Concinnity training model.
The rhythm of the training
Concinnity IFS and Somatic Embodiment Training follows a clear and supportive learning pathway. Each stage is designed to build understanding, safety, practice, and integration.
Stage 1: Recognition and psychoeducation
You will learn the foundations of IFS informed practice, somatic embodiment, and nervous system awareness. This stage supports clear understanding of how parts, protection, body responses, and therapeutic presence interact.
Stage 2: Pacing and therapeutic presence
You will explore how to create a safe learning and therapeutic space, with attention to pacing, choice, consent, and nervous system regulation.
Stage 3: Practice and exploration
You will engage in guided experiential practice, role rotation, and small group work so the model becomes more than theory. This is where confidence begins to grow through supported experience.
Stage 4: Integration and consultation
Learning continues beyond the two training days through fortnightly group consultation. These sessions support application, reflection, questions, and ongoing professional development.
What becomes possible in your practice
As you deepen your understanding of IFS informed practice and somatic embodiment, you may begin to notice a different quality in your work.
You may feel more able to stay present with complexity. You may notice protective responses with more compassion. You may have a clearer sense of when to slow down, when to stabilise, and when the client's system is ready to move closer to vulnerable material.
This training supports you to practise with greater steadiness, humility, curiosity, and clinical care.
✓ More confidence working with protective responses.
✓ Greater awareness of body based signals in sessions.
✓ More capacity to pace trauma work safely.
✓ Clearer language for parts and inner systems.
✓ Stronger therapeutic presence during emotional intensity.
✓ More compassion for client parts and therapist parts.
✓ Greater ability to integrate IFS informed work into your existing practice.
✓ Ongoing supervision to support real world application.
Two-day training · Live online
Places are limited. Reserve yours today.
Training with Angela M Carter
Angela M Carter is a trauma therapist, supervisor, trainer, and founder of Trauma Release Centre. She is a Level 3 trained Internal Family Systems therapist, advanced IFIO couples therapist, HeartMath practitioner, and experienced trauma therapist.
With more than thirty years of experience across therapy, social work, trauma recovery, relational healing, and professional training, Angela brings a grounded and compassionate approach to teaching.
Her work integrates IFS informed therapy, somatic awareness, autonomic nervous system understanding, relational trauma practice, and therapeutic presence. Through Concinnity, Angela supports professionals to bring parts work and body awareness into clinical practice with greater safety, clarity, and confidence.
Training informed by clinical depth and ongoing professional development
Angela's teaching is informed by advanced professional training, clinical experience, and a commitment to safe, compassionate, trauma informed practice.
What participants have shared
"Angela brings a beautifully compassionate presence that affirms every part of who we are, both as therapists and as humans."
Jenny, Counsellor
"The training gave me the confidence to bring IFS into my client work right away. The ongoing group consultation helped me continue growing long after the course ended."
Karen, Psychologist
"I went in to learn about IFS and came out a different person. Even with almost no prior experience, this training gave me the confidence to begin offering this beautiful method of healing."
Diana, Psychotherapist
"This training was incredible for me both personally and professionally. It allowed me to have compassion for myself and others in a way I had never experienced before."
Anna, Psychotherapist
"This training was incredible both personally and professionally. The IFS framework completely reshaped how I understand myself and others. It brings compassion to every part of who we are. Angela truly embodies Self energy, creating the most beautiful and safe learning environment I have ever experienced."
Kirsty, Coach
"Angela's compassion and wisdom were evident in every session. She taught with clarity and confidence, helping me and my clients understand that every part has a purpose. This awareness has brought greater compassion and understanding to my work and to those I support."
Nicola, Counsellor
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