Fran Booth

Faculty

About

Frances Booth, LICSW, is a Certified IFS therapist, consultant, and international trainer, colleague to Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) and Susan McConnell (author of Somatic IFS). Her somatically focused clinical practice specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, eating, and attachment disorders. A graduate of Cornell University and Simmons School for Social Work, she has held adjunct faculty positions at Smith College, Tufts Medical School, and William James College. Her trainings include mindfulness at Insight Meditation Center, mind/body work with Joan Borysenko, and Wavework with Dayashakti at Kripalu.

Courses by Fran Booth

Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self

A demonstration course on the somatic journey toward self-worth. Tools for nervous system safety, working with protective parts, and guiding clients to process core emotions and reclaim authentic self-acceptance.

Helping Clients Transform their Inner Critic from the Inside Out

A course on transforming the inner critic through somatics. Recognize the critic's protective origins, understand its patterns, and apply body-based interventions to shift criticism into compassion.

Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate

Discover what holds you back and transform stuck parts into strength, love, and freedom — in a somatic parts work certificate with Fran Booth.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate

Learn a holistic, body-centered framework for understanding and working with trauma — for yourself and your clients. A 3-month online certificate with world-renowned somatic trauma faculty.

Dates Sep 27 – Dec 18, 2026

Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair

A course on somatic inner child work. Recognize wounded child parts, understand their protective roles, and apply body-based interventions to heal childhood wounds held in the nervous system.

Transforming Trauma through Parts Work

A six-module course integrating Internal Family Systems with somatic approaches. Demonstration sessions on working with internal "parts" — anger, anxiety, perfectionism, fear, and chronic pain — to cultivate Self-led wholeness and healing.