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Family and Systemic Therapy - Learning
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A Vision for Systemic Change in Family Therapy
Join us as we share our vision for our Learning Space, where family practitioners and therapists connect, grow, reflect, and contribute to better outcomes for families. We are a community of therapists and case-based researchers who are working towards systemic change on a small and grand scale, and who are passionate about the precision and quality of their practice because our families deserve it.
We are proud to offer advanced and genuinely useful training on the cutting edge of systemic conceptualisation and research. Our learning-teaching process has been researched and refined for over 40 years. As a result, course participants are immersed in an experiential learning process where we learn together to flexibly adapt what will work best for the family in their unique circumstances.
Dr. Sophie Holmes AM
Director
In collaboration with ACU
Our specialist postgraduate programs—including the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Family and Systemic Therapy—are delivered in collaboration with Australian Catholic University. This partnership ensures our students receive a highly respected, university-accredited qualification anchored in leading-edge systemic research and practice.
A Learning Space where Practice meets Purpose
We provide evidence-based, practice-led learning processes designed for family inclusive workers and therapists who see children, adolescents and individuals, with or without their families. Our learning environment supports your development, professionally, personally and relationally, balancing academic depth and real-world context.
Deepening Therapy, Transforming Therapists
As a therapist-led social enterprise, we offer an accessible, high-impact learning process designed to meet the realities of family sensitive, family inclusive and family therapy practice.
Our programs are grounded in lived experience, best practice, and a shared commitment to systemic change. We bring compassion and reflection to the research on feedback and outcome measures, to help therapists integrate learnings into their unique style of practice.
Hands-on Expertise
Learn from practising family therapists who are educators and bring real-world experience into every session.
Accessible to Practitioners
Advanced learning at an affordable price.
Learning Options
In-person or live-online options to suit your professional and personal life demands.
Social Enterprise Model
Be part of a professional learning community that reinvests in the growth of its members.
Developed for real-world family practice
Our courses offer a rich blend of accessible theory and application, developed for professionals working with families, children, adolescents and individuals from simple through to highly complex circumstances.
Our courses are designed for:
Experienced family practitioners
Extend your skills with advanced training grounded in family and systemic theory and real-world clinical practice. For family workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, art therapists, play therapists, music therapists and others.
Therapists and counsellors working with children
Learn targeted Family Sensitive and Family Inclusive approaches for supporting child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing in their family context.
Mid-career clinicians
Enhance your skills with advanced training grounded in family and systemic theory, research and real-world clinical practice.
Mental health and community organisations
Build capacity and confidence in delivering therapeutic support to families in complex settings. Strengthen team cohesion, focus and practice excellence with coordinated, best-practice systemic training.
In-Person Courses
Join our in-person courses in our Melbourne or Mildura learning spaces.
Live-online Courses
Participate in live-online sessions from the comfort of your own space.
Core Ideas of Family & Systemic Therapy - 4 Day Intensive
The most popular course at WRFTC. This 4-day workshop will give you an introduction to the ideas & tools of Famil...
Start Date
25 June, 2026
Presenter
Sarah Doubleday, Dr Sophie Holmes AM
Location
Online via Zoom
Cost
$880.00
An Introduction to the Nature of Expertise in Family and Systemic Therapy
This presentation shares key findings from an award-winning PhD research program on The Nature of Expertise in Family...
Start Date
5 September, 2026
Presenter
Dr Sophie Holmes AM
Location
WRFTC, 298 Hawthorn Rd. Caulfield
Cost
$220.00
Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT) - Overview
Start Date
22 April, 2027
Presenter
Professor Rudi Dallos
Location
Online via Zoom
Cost
$440.00
Flexible learning Thoughtfully designed
Our Melbourne location has been purposefully designed to reflect therapeutic practice, with calm, welcoming spaces that feel more like family therapy rooms than lecture theatres. It’s a professional, supportive environment that fosters connection, reflection, and collaborative learning.
Williamsroad Family Therapy – Learning acknowledges the Boon Wurrung/Bunurong and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
