Susan McConnell, MA, CHT, is the founder and developer of Somatic IFS. As a Senior Trainer with the IFS Institute since 1997, she has taught therapists, developed curriculum, and mentored trainers internationally. Somatic IFS integrates bodywork, movement, spiritual, and psychotherapeutic modalities with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model. This approach brings compassionate witnessing to the body’s implicit stories—personal and collective—by embodying both the internal parts and the Self.
Susan is the author of Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Movement and Touch in Practice and The Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy Workbook, both published by North Atlantic Books. She leads Somatic IFS retreats and trainings in the U.S. and internationally.
