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Clinical Intership Programs

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

Details

Dates: Sept 2025 – June 2026

Tuition: $2,000 CDN

Times: Bi-weekly 2-hour classes on Tuesdays

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

Clinical Meetings: One Tuesday evening a month for 2.5 hours

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

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.

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

The program begins each year in September. We accept applications on May 1st of that year, and interviews will start in June. We accept final applications by August 1st, and interviews will be completed by early September. Enrollment opens in May 2025.

Applications will need the following items to complete the application form:

  • A Google account/email address
  • A copy of your CV or resume
  • A copy of your educational transcript (highest degree)
  • A Family Diagram / Genogram
  • Current criminal record check (optional at the time of submission)
  • A written request for duty to accommodate a disability, if relevant.

The application form is available: HERE

Contact Information

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

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