Launch of the qualifying level (QLT) course 2025 cohort
We are delighted and proud to announce that, from April 2025, the Institute of Family Therapy and Systemic Social Action (IFT) will be collaborating with the Centre for Systemic Studies (CSS) in Wales in order to run a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) accredited 2-year Professional Qualifying Level Training (QLT) in Family and Systemic […]
Action Against Conversion Therapy
It is with outrage and sadness that we write this update, following the news from UKCP last Friday of its decision to withdraw from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on conversion therapy https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/ukcp-update-on-conversion-therapy/#background. We feel outraged and saddened because we know that this is having a direct and harmful impact on people’s lives, and […]
A letter from the future to counselors and psychotherapists followed by a heartfelt connection from IFT
This is a letter that we received from Gail Simon, Gwyn Whitfield, Elizabeth Day and Amanda Middleton. We share it here in its entirety, as well as our response. In posting this we are inviting you to connect and join in this conversation, in whatever ways you wish. Dear Counsellors and Psychotherapists, This is […]
Supporting Families Practice Model Pilot Study
IFT is delighted to announce that we will be working with Coram to deliver this exciting project with the Dept. for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Dept. for Education: Supporting Families Systemic Family Therapy Pilot Study IFT has been commissioned to lead the training elements of this project by the Department for Levelling Up, […]
Update on the QLT, with clarity regarding accreditation and employability
Introducing the IFT Qualifying Level Training in Systemic Psychotherapy Core belief, values and legacy We believe that training should be tailored to fit the communities that we serve. A core value at IFT is the importance of meaningfully increasing diversity and inclusivity of clients, trainees, ideas and contexts where we practice. Systemic psychotherapy was born […]
IFT remembers Matthew Ganda
All at IFT and in the UK systemic practice community will be greatly saddened to learn of the recent death of Matthew Ganda; everyone who met him professionally and personally, over the last 35 years, was struck by his humility, compassion and huge intelligence. Matthew was originally from Zimbabwe. He came to the UK on […]
Introducing IFT’s Family and Systemic Psychotherapy Qualifying Level: MSc Equivalent
Our core beliefs, values and legacy We believe that training should be tailored to fit the communities that we serve. A core value at IFT is the importance of meaningfully increasing diversity and inclusivity of clients, trainees, ideas and contexts where we practice. Family and Systemic Psychotherapy was born as a movement away from intrapsychic […]
Writing for Publication
IFT LAUNCHES THE WRITING FOR PUBLICATION COURSE “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” Margaret Fuller Knowledge, as we know, is not static but a living and fluid body of ideas and experiences, of which we are all a part. Some of you, and many students, have been asking us for […]