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.
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?
Open Evening – Systemic Practice Training Courses Applications 2026-2027
Date and time: Wednesday 25 February 2026 at 5pm-6pm
Venue: Room 9.58b in the Worsley Building, University of Leeds Campus
Leeds Family Therapy & Research Centre (LFTRC) is running an open evening to prospective applicants and current students to the following courses:
- Foundation Course in Systemic Practice
- Intermediate Course in Systemic Practice
- Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Practice
This is a drop-in session to answer your questions about:
- course commitments
- course philosophy
- systemic approach
- application process
and an opportunity to meet staff and other prospective applicants.
If you wish to attend the open evening, it would be really helpful if you could let us know in advance by emailing to confirm your place: familytherapy@leeds.ac.uk.
A campus map is available here: Campus Map
If you need to arrange car parking at the University, please contact Jacinta Rogers using familytherapy@leeds.ac.uk. Please give details of car registration and your expected time at the University.
For further details about our training courses and application processes, please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/familytherapy.
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
Wednesday 14th January 2026, 5-6pm via Teams- Online open event: Advanced Training in Systemic Supervision, AFT Accredited training in Systemic and Family Therapy Supervision
Are you looking to develop your skills in systemic supervision? Then this is the course for you!
We train qualified family therapists in supervising the clinical work of other practitioners, including: clinicians trained to foundation or intermediate level; students undergoing systemic training; qualified family therapists; teams and staff working with families and networks wishing to work with a systemic orientation.
Please email k.hall1@leeds.ac.uk to confirm your place and request the Teams meeting link.
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)
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