 Structural Family Systems Theory TrainingÂ
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AÂ Blueprint for Running Effective Family Systems Therapy With Confidence
Finally, a practical road map for graduate level students or therapists interested in learning more about structural family therapy. A family therapy course that goes beyond theory to share all the tools, techniques, and insights you need in your development as a family systems therapist so you can run family therapy sessions with skill and confidence in your private practice.
For a very limited time, this is available at a 60% discount - sign up below to e the first to know when it goes live.
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Systemic Family Assessment
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Despite all those years in grad school, we can still feel unprepared, insecure, and out of our depth working as a family therapist.
Without a strong foundation in systemic thinking, family therapy sessions can feel chaotic, overwhelming, and unproductive.Â
Get ahead of the game by knowing exactly what and how to assess a family from a systemic perspective so you can remain focused and clear on treatment and goals.
Hypothesis & Conceptualization
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Without a roadmap for deciphering complex family interactions, it's easy to get lost in the barrage of information coming at us.
It might feel like you put out a fire one week, only to find three more burning in the next session.
Conceptualizing and hypothesis are vital parts of doing systemic family therapy - our five part Hypothesis Generator will help you through the process of putting your thoughts and data together to guide your sessions.
Structural Family Therapy Techniques
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The sheer volume of information coming from multiple family members, can be disorienting and leave you feeling lost and turned upside down.
If the family is high-conflict or really struggling, the pressure is even more intense.
Know exactly what techniques to use, why you're using them and implement them with confidence. Use one of ours or craft your own based on the theory.
Family Therapy Doesn't Have To Be A Challenge
If we've not met before, I'm Oliver, I'm a marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles, and former clinical director. I've worked with children and adolescents and their families both in treatment centers and private practice. Structural family therapy has completely changed my understanding of helping people - and i want to share what I've learned with you.
Read more about Structural Family Systems Theory here.
Structural Family Systems Training: Step by Step
An online course and post graduate training program in family systems theory, guiding you each step of the way, from the first phone call from a family to the first sessions.
Family Systems: Step By Step is the ideal solution for mental health clinicians wanting to brush up on or improve practical and working knowledge of working with families from a research driven and evidence based Structural Family Systems Perspective. Â
In this program, participants will learn to
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Understand and assess family systems,
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Put together a systemic hypothesis, and
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Design and implement structural techniques.
After completing this training, whether you're a social worker, MFT or professional counselor, knowing and understanding the practical applications of structural family therapy and the work of Salvador Minuchin, will have helped you develop in both confidence and skills.
Perfect if you're still in grad school or new to family work, and designed also if you just want to brush up on family therapy techniques!
In this training course, you'll learn more than just structural family theory.
Family Systems Step-by-Step is grounded in real-world experience of structural family therapy. With over a decade of clinical practice in family therapy, I’ve condensed everything I’ve learned into a course that’s not just theoretical but deeply practical.
Start Thinking Systemically
In this course, you’ll master systems thinking—an entirely different perspective that allows you to see the intricate web of relationships, dynamics, and patterns in family therapy that occur beneath the surface.
You’ll develop the belief system that may help you to untangle even the most complex family situations with the clarity and precision.
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Confidence in Family Therapy
Family sessions can be overwhelming, with countless interactions and dynamics between children and caregivers happening all at once.
After this training, you’ll know exactly what to focus on and how to guide families with intention. From your first call to your final session, you’ll have a roadmap for success, complete with proven strategies and techniques.
 Structural Family Assessment
This course will show you how structural family therapists gathers, organizes, and interprets data.
You’ll learn to identify patterns that children and families themselves might not see—and collect and understand that information and use it to craft targeted, effective interventions.
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Structural Family Therapy Interventions
Learn to intervene in systemic ways -ways that transform. You’ll gain skills to shift rigid family roles, interrupt destructive family interactional patterns, and inspire meaningful connections.
Whether it’s through circular questioning, structural family therapy mapping, or interventions you design based on the module, you’ll have a toolbox filled with methods that work.
Structural Family Therapy Diagnosis
You’ll learn how in structural family therapy, we understand dysfunction and can restore balance to a a system by redefining roles, strengthening boundaries, and reshaping hierarchies.
No matter what the issue is, you will know exactly how in structural family therapy, we lead a family back to health with structural family therapy activities and assessment.
Become The Family Therapy Expert.
This course is about becoming the type of family therapist who can make systemic change. You’ll learn to hold the room, navigate challenging dynamics, and lead a session with authority while maintaining warmth and empathy.
By the end of this course, mental health clinicians gain and embody the confidence and expertise that families trust and respect.
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Here's how the program curriculum breaks down:
The Family Systems: Step by Step program provides mental health professionals a therapeutic insight into how to run a family systems therapy session.Â
Foundations
We'll review quickly the core principles and theoretical concepts of structural family therapy. This module sets the stage for the transformative work ahead by reminding you about how to think systemically about family members.
It also gives you a sneak peek at the exercises and strategies used within systemic work that you’ll learn about throughout the course.
Family Assessment Model
This module dives into the essential skill of assessing a family through a systemic and structural lens.
You’ll learn my structural family therapy assessment model, and know what to observe in a structural family therapy session. From power dynamics to family structure to unspoken rules—and how to collect meaningful data during your very first interactions with clients
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The First Sessions
We focus on a step-by-step guide of what I cover in the first sessions of structural family therapy. It includes detailed explanations and guides to circular questioning, family mapping, and creating timelines. You’ll learn how to use these activities to uncover family dynamics, generate hypotheses, and set the foundation for effective treatment. By the end, you’ll feel confident guiding families from day one.
Hypotheses Generator.
I'll guide you through how I put together a working hypothesis as part of a family therapy conceptualization, and help you gain an understanding of why this is such an essential part of structural family therapy
You’ll learn how to use the 'Hypothesis Generator' to conceptualize the root causes of dysfunction -whether it's depression, anxiety self harm or other oppositional behaviors. We'll put the data you collected in the first sessions to use and you'll see the benefit of all the earlier stages.
 Five Family Patterns
This module helps you identify five of the more common family structures and patterns and address common structural patterns and behavioral problems that show up in children that a family therapist should know.
I provide you a blueprint for most family patterns, and help you navigate the challenges these families present. You’ll gain insight into the roles parents and children play—and how these roles maintain dysfunction.
Structural Family Therapy Interventions
We'll put your systemic thinking into action with a collection of powerful structural family therapy techniques
From blocking and restructuring to reframing and enactments, this module equips you with techniques to shift family dynamics effectively.Â
I'll also share some of the more specific exercises that have worked for me with families.Â
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Structural Family Therapy Case Study:
Continuing the theme- here's a little case study in the complex emotional system of human relationships we call family. This video covers some of the concepts in the training program and offers some continuing education into the clinical approach structural systems therapists take with families.Â
Understanding Bowen:
More ways to apply systems to clinical work:
Family Therapy In Practice: Bowen Family Systems
Explore the techniques I use inspired by Murray Bowen and gain clinical experience to help families and individuals achieve differentiation. Bowen's approach emphasizes the importance of individuals to learn to differentiate their thoughts, emotional world and self / other entanglements that can arise in close relationships and impair functioning.
Bowen Family Systems Explained
Bowen Family Systems Theory developed by Dr. Murray Bowen, introduces a framework where the family is viewed as an emotional unit, but it's SO MUCH more than family therapy. I use these techniques and 8 concepts in at least one session a day. I've tried to pack this video with visual ways to describe things as well as a useful example or ten.
