Training in Systemic Practice and Family Therapy
We have over 20 years’ experience of running Family and Systemic Therapy courses. We run the full range of professional training courses in Systemic Practice and Family Therapy: Foundation, Intermediate, PG Cert, Qualifying levels / MSc, and Advanced Training in Systemic Supervision.
Download a Course Overview for courses leading to qualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist/Family Therapist.
We are now accepting applications for the forthcoming Advanced Training in Systemic Supervision. View our information and application form request.
In addition we provide bespoke systemic training for professional groups such as child and adolescent mental health services, youth offending teams, psychiatry, social care or the voluntary sector.
Our Courses
Applications for the MSc in Systemic Family Therapy which leads to qualification as a UKCP registered Systemic Psychotherapist / family Therapist are now closed for the 2023 - 25 intake. Information about the course is on the web pages and if you would like to discuss a future application for the following cohort in 2025 - 27, you are welcome to be in contact with the course team by emailing us.
Applications for the Foundation, Intermediate, PG Cert training in Systemic Practice are now open. Course information is on each web page and found in our application guidance document. If you would like to discuss your application, you are welcome to be in contact with the course team by emailing us.
We have seen many trainees pass successfully through our formal training in systemic family therapy, why not be one of them?
Training Days in 2025-2026
Save the date – LFTRC training events 2025-26
Wednesday 3 December 2025 10am-4.30pm – Working systemically with older people: Challenging ageism and co-constructing hope with Dr Dan Blake and Dr Polly Kaiser
Fostering curiosity in the systemic community around issues of age and ageism is now essential as we are all living longer. Invitations to curiosity around age and ageism can only bear more fruitful opportunities for us all as we move towards later life and live alongside our ageing communities. The aim of this day together is to explore the challenges and benefits of working systemically with older people and our hope is to invite practitioner curiosity. We will have conversations about challenging ageism, the social construction of ageing, and useful systemic skills and techniques to draw on when working with older people and their significant systems. We look forward to seeing you there!
£80 (5 hours CPD activity)
Book here (right click and select ‘open link’): Working systemically with older people
Friday 5 December 2025 9.30am-4.30pm – Energising ourselves, each other, and our therapeutic practices with Dr Phil Arthington and Dr Kate Hall [West Yorkshire PQT event]
We will draw on systemic ideas and creative methods to facilitate a re-energisation of ourselves, each other, and our practices in the workplace. This is especially important in our times of working in the midst of financial pressures in public services, and widespread social upheaval
and division. Expect to hear about acts of resistance in the face of demoralising workplace processes and ways of relating, with an emphasis instead on collective care, hope, and staying committed to our principles. Useful concepts will be shared alongside offering exercises and space for reflection to support these aims.
PQT members - £20 (5 hours CPD activity)
To book: please email westyorkspqt@leeds.ac.uk and include details of your role.
You need to be a qualified psychologist or psychological professional to attend this event. Please note, priority will be given to professionals working in West Yorkshire services.
Wednesday 25 February 2026 10am-4.30pm – Sacred conversations: Faith, spirituality and religion in systemic practice with Dr Raphael Cadenhead
This training event explores the complexities, dilemmas and therapeutic possibilities that arise when working with clients with diverse spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, enabling practitioners to enhance their reflexivity and develop skills in navigating clinical conversations around faith, spirituality and/or religion.
£80 (5 hours CPD activity)
To book: online store will be available 2 months prior to the event
Wednesday 20 May 2026 10am-4.30pm – The value of systemic thinking and practices for working in and with organisations: coordinating the management of meaning with Dr Christine Oliver
This workshop will explore how a systemic lens can facilitate orientation, sense-making and wise action for positioning of self and others with agency and accountability. A systemic lens will be treated as embracing and enhancing more traditional organisational approaches, rather than in
opposition. Participants will be taken through a narrative of detailed use of coordinated management of meaning theory (CMM) in relation to an organisational consultancy case.
£80 (5 hours CPD activity)
To book: online store will be available 2 months prior to the event
Thursday 21 May 2026 10am-4.30pm – Conflict and paradox: working generatively with tensions and contradictions in teams with Dr Christine Oliver
This day will form part of the Advanced Training in Systemic Supervision course (2026-28) and is also open to external delegates.
Conflict can invite tensions and impairing dynamics which can develop into paradoxical patterns that paralyse team functioning, but paradox can also be embraced and become a developmental opportunity. We will explore in this workshop how we can facilitate meaning making of conflict
and paradox so that organisational members can move from stuck positions to systemic awareness, agency and accountability.
£80 (5 hours CPD activity)
To book: online store will be available 2 months prior to the event