Systemic Counselling & Therapy

The Family Therapy framework works on the understanding that a person's distress is often linked with their relationships to the people around them, both past and present - especially within their family.
Individuals & families participating in systemic therapy find that it helps repair relationships, and focuses the family's attention on improving daily life for everyone.

What can Family Therapy help with?

Some people come to see us with concerns about family issues or life transitions, while others come with concerns about a family member. We work collaboratively and in coordination with the other professionals in the family system: doctors, individual psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, family support agencies, schools, and child protection. This is especially true for families with complex issues, or suffering siginificant and long-standing distress.

Training And Supervision

In conjunction with the Swinburne University of Technology, Williamsroad offers one of the leading accredited graduate programs in family therapy, and has done so for over 20 years.
The Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Masters in Social Science in Family Therapy, are taught both at our Caulfield premises, and in Geelong, in collaboration with Barwon Health.

We also provide evidence-based tailored courses for agencies and teams in Systemic & Family Therapy, and family-sensitive practice.

Individual and group supervision in systemic & family therapy is offered alongside a series of Professional Development seminars throughout each year.

We offer:

• 4-Day Intensive: Core Ideas and Practices of Family Therapy:
  This course is a prerequisite for participation in any of our Postgraduate courses in Family Therapy.
• Other intensive programs: contact the Williamsroad reception directly



Postgraduate Training in Family Therapy

• Masters of Social Sciences (Family Therapy)
  3 years part-time study
      SWINBURNE SUBJECT WEBSITE HERE
• Graduate Diploma of Social Sciences (Family Therapy)
  2 years part-time study
      SWINBURNE SUBJECT WEBSITE HERE
• Graduate Certificate of Social Sciences (Family Therapy)
  1 year part-time study
      SWINBURNE SUBJECT WEBSITE HERE
• PhD co-supervision for aligned research projects, through Swinburne or other aligned Victorian universities
  Contact the Williamsroad reception directly



Professional Development Program

• 2015: The De-Mystifying Series
      Workshops covering clinical practice with complex individuals, couples, families, children, young men, and major mental illness.
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