Clinical Internship in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Therapy – Year One

Clinical Internship Program Details

Dates: Sept 2024-June 2025
Times: Tuesdays for 4 hours which includes 2 hours of group supervision and 2 hours of training. Students may begin seeing clients as early as November.
Supervision: Weekly 2-hour group supervision (outlined above) and individual supervision hours based on caseload.
Location: Online using Zoom with the opportunity to see clients in person.
Tuition: $2,500 (Master’s degree students with practicum requirements accepted into the program receive a $500 scholarship towards tuition). See Program Outline for Tuition Payment Option.

Program Outline: click here.

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Program Description

The design of the clinical internship program provides a thorough introduction to Bowen family systems theory. This contributes to students becoming competent relationship, family, and clinical counsellors, school counsellors, pastoral counsellors and social workers.

Learning Objectives

• To provide the trainee with a thorough introduction to systems thinking from the perspective of Bowen Theory, its methods and techniques.
• To apply the theory to efforts in one’s own family, in clinical work and, when applicable, in the workplace.
• To relate Bowen Theory to knowledge from the natural sciences and to theological understanding.
• To introduce trainees to systems research.

“The theory postulates that far more human activity is governed by man’s (sic) emotional system than he has been willing to admit, and there is far more similarity than dissimilarity between the “dance of life” in lower forms and the “dance of life” in human forms.”