Clinical Internship Program Year One

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

Details

Dates: Sept 2025 – June 2026

Tuition: Under review

Times: Subject to change currently, they are – Tuesdays for 4 hours (which includes 2 hours of group supervision) and one evening a month for a 3-hour clinical meeting. Trainees may begin seeing clients in December.

Supervision: Weekly 2-hour group supervision and up to 9-16 hours of individual or paired supervision sessions, depending on caseload.

Location: Online using Zoom

Program Outline

Program Description

The program is designed to provide a thorough introduction to Bowen family systems theory and 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.”

Murray Bowen, M.D.
from Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

Faculty

Katie White, Leila Howard, Lois Walker, and Jennifer Hassard.

Meet the Faculty

Application Form

Each year, the program starts in September. We accept applications on May 1st of that year, and interviews will begin in June. We accept final applications by August 1st, and interviews will be completed by early September. Enroll opens May 2025.

Application forms will be available prior to May 2025.

Admissions Requirements

Applicants are either enrolled in a Masters Degree in Counselling, Social Sciences or a related field, or are a member in good standing with a professional counselling or social work association, and the applicant demonstrates a combination of life and work experience that, in the faculty’s judgement, will enable them to function successfully in the program. See the full description of the application requirements as outlined in the application form.

Contact Information

For additional information, please contact us: training@livingsystems.ca

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