Family of Origin insights: A Resource for Clinicians and Clients

What you will learn:  

• Examine methods for assessing individual functioning within the family context, applicable to both the clinician and the client. 
• This workshop will introduce strategies for conducting these assessments efficiently, as well as in a more in-depth and comprehensive manner. 
• Identify key patterns that influence all relationships, and learn how recognizing these patterns can help a clinician bring unconscious, automatic behaviors into awareness. 
• Reflect on your own relationship with your family of origin and how this will foster self-awareness and strengthen your therapeutic work.  
• Engage in case studies and experiential exercises that promote skill development and deepen understanding through small group discussions.  

Format

Interactive with collaborative discussions, hands-on activities, case study analysis.

Live Event Recording

Filmed live at an in-person event, this workshop also includes an engaging Q&A session with participants and presenters.

About Katherine White 

I have been working with individuals, couples, children and families for over 20 years, across 3 countries. I received my training in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) from Arizona State University and hold a current licence in Arizona as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I have trained in many therapeutic models over the course of my career.  My early work assisting children, adolescents and their parents began in the schools in Arizona, and I then worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist and clinical manager at non-profit agencies. I worked for 2 years in Sydney, Australia as a clinician in a Family Relationship Counselling Program. In 2011, I moved to Vancouver and began my therapy practice in Canada.  Along with my private practice I am also the Executive Director and faculty member with Living Systems Counselling, a non-profit in the Lower Mainland specializing in Bowen Family Systems Theory.