FAMILY, COUPLE, SEXUAL & SYSTEMIC THERAPY SECTION

The members within this group of organisations share an assumption that individual's problems cannot adequately be understood without considering the wider relevance of the families and groups which form each individuals' past and present wider context.  Information about this wider system may be elicited within therapy sessions with individuals, couples or family groups.  Some systemic psychotherapists also consult to organisational and business systems.

Therapy aims to identify and explore the patterns of belief and behaviours in roles and relationships (including sexual relationships) which seem to have become set over time, and to enable people to decide where change would be desirable and to facilitate the process of establishing new and more fulfilling patterns.

Systemic psychotherapists, whilst often actively intervening in client systems, strive to maintain a non-blaming and neutral position, respecting differences of culture, race, gender, sexual orientation etc.  Therapists may work in teams, using live consultation or as sole practitioners using retrospective consultation in order to draw upon other perspectives to their practice.  Therapy is often relatively short-term.
  
      

UKCP Member Organisations
Association for Family Therapy	AFT
British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy	BASRT
The Family Institute, Cardiff	FIC
Institute of Family Therapy	IFT
Kensington Consultation Centre	KCC

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