Step Families with Kathleen Cotter Cauley

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Step Families with Kathleen Cotter Cauley

Season 3: Episode 11

Welcome to Elevator Systems! This episode explores all the complexities of when families combine in stepfamily relationships and how Bowen family systems theory can be a resource. Kathleen Cotter Cauley is back on the elevator, sharing her thoughts and experiences with Dixie Vandersluys and Katie White.

Kathleen Cotter Cauley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in both Virginia and Florida. She’s a faculty member of the Bowen Centre. Her thinking on triangles has been published in the book “Triangles: Bowen Family Systems Perspectives” by Peter Titelman. Kathleen has been married for almost 40 years, is a stepmom, a stepdaughter, and a grandma.

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Comments are welcome: katie.white@livingsystems.ca

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