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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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Celebrating the ESFT Book Launch!

What a wonderful celebration! Our Alliance gathered to celebrate the launch of Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy: A Trauma-Informed, Strength-Based Model for Treating Families. The event brought together familiar faces, new connections, colleagues, friends, and members of the ESFT community. The afternoon was filled with meaningful conversations, opportunities to reconnect, good …

PODCAST AND FREE CE CREDITS: Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) & Practical Applications

#image_title Episode Description In this episode of the Midsommer Method Podcast, Dr. Danielle Henderson, PsyD, LPC, speaks with Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC, about Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) and its practical applications in working with children, adolescents, and families. Together, they explore how family structure, interactional patterns, and broader ecological …

When a Client’s Behavior Becomes the Family’s Organizing Principle

#behaviorincontext When everyone in the family is focused on one child’s behavior, who is paying attention to the pattern that keeps everyone stuck? When a child struggles with significant emotional or behavioral challenges, it is understandable that the family begins organizing its life around those struggles. Mornings may revolve around …

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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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