Systemic Training, Supervision, Consulting & Education

ECOSYSTEMIC STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY

Elevate your career with systemic family therapy training at PCFTTC. Grounded in Dr. Salvador Minuchin’s legacy, our programs prepare you to apply a strength-based, relational, context-sensitive and trauma-informed approach across the continuum of care. Join us and become part of a transformative professional alliance!

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Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT)

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What is ESFT ?

ESFT is an empirically supported clinical treatment model for families, clinical supervision, and training developed by Marion Lindblad-Goldberg.

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Our Mission

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center promotes effective, strength-based, systemic services through training, education, supervision, and consultation. The Center embraces innovative and ethical practice, and the use of data to inform training and competency development. Our mission is to collaborate with professionals, clinicians, and organizations to strengthen relational functioning and promote healthy family development for children and adults within the context of their social ecology and family culture, which shapes how families grow, connect, and heal.

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The Winner of the Wicked Competition

#image_title As part of our Wicked Competition, participants were invited to apply Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) concepts to the world of Wicked—and one submission stood out for its clarity, creativity, and clinical precision. The winning entry mapped the family system using both an ecomap and a Negative Interactional Pattern …

The Trauma of Being Unprotected

When Safety and Relationship Collide #image_title Spencer Martinez Dec 28, 2025 The Trauma of Being Unprotected – by Spencer MartinezDownload …

Wicked Characters as Family Systems Metaphors

🌪️ A playful, clinically grounded way to think about family dynamics through the world of Oz Elphaba — The “Identified Patient” Who Carries the System’s Anxiety Elphaba represents the youth who is labeled as “the problem” simply because the system doesn’t understand or accommodate their uniqueness.In ESFT terms, she is …

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The Marion Lindblad-Goldberg Award

This award has been established by the Philadelphia Child and Family Training Center in honor of Dr. Marion Lindblad-Goldberg whose personal and professional mission was to make the world a better, brighter, and more connected place one family at a time. She believed wholeheartedly in each of us – in our ability, through systemic and relational interventions, to heal disengagement and cultivate belonging.

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