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Mind Kind podcast

Mind Kind is a podcast to support resilience and motivation in self care and mental health through education, discussion and reflection. In this episode, Exploring Family Therapy with Amy Urry, Amy and host Jo North discuss the reasons why families seek or are referred for therapy, exploring how sessions can uncover unhelpful patterns and foster positive change within family dynamics and more.

Introducing the UK Family & Systemic Psychotherapy Community

During 2025 we are celebrating AFT being 50 years old and in March we also welcomed our international family therapy community to the UK for the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) Congress in Aberdeen. To mark these occasions, we have produced a short film introducing some of our members. We wanted to show the breadth and diversity within our amazing professional community and share their motivations for becoming family therapists, what they love about the role and their aspirations for the future.  Thank you to all the participants. The slides from the event are also available.

An interview with Dr Emily Zobel Marshall about the David Oluwale Memorial Association.  

Mental Health Awareness Week Podcasts

As AFT’s contribution to Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May 2020), we launched these two podcasts:

In the first Philip Messent interviews Arlene Vetere about lessons to be drawn from her extensive work with family violence regarding the stresses and strains likely to be placed on families during lockdown, and how these can best be understood and minimised.

In the second he interviews Barry Mason about his article published this year in the Journal of Family Therapy: ‘Family of origin scripts in dealing with adversity: a question’. Barry describes how this question can be used both by therapists and family members with one another in a way that allows tensions to be eased and new possibilities for mutual kindness and more co-ordinated responses to emerge. This article and Arlene Vetere’s 2001 Journal of Family Therapy article ‘Working systemically with family violence: risk, responsibility and collaboration’ was available to download free on the Journal website during Mental Health Awareness week.

BBC documentary "I Blame My Parents"

with Hannah Sherbersky, Family and Systemic Psychotherapist

Systemic Family Therapy YouTube Channel

Messages of Hope

Stories, pictures and comments from people who have experienced Family Therapy as clients. Sometimes clients are referred to as ‘service users’. AFT prefers to call them ‘experts by experience’. Sometimes, to protect the anonymity of our ‘experts by experience’, we have edited or changed identifying details.

In this episode of Mind Kind, a podcast to support resilience and motivation in self care and mental health through education, discussion and reflection, host Jo North and Amy Urry discuss the reasons why families seek or are referred for therapy, exploring how sessions can uncover unhelpful patterns and foster positive change within family dynamics and more. Exploring Family Therapy with Amy Urry