Training blog
Practical articles for therapists and clinicians
Written by the AkindaCo education team in Adelaide. Techniques you can use, distinctions worth getting right, and honest answers about training pathways. Everything here comes out of clinical work we are actually doing.
Genograms
What is a genogram? Symbols, how to draw one, and how to use it in the room
A genogram is a map of family patterns, not a family tree. The standard symbols, where they stop working, and how to draw one live with a family watching.
Read the article →Systemic practice
Circular questions: 30 examples you can use in your next session
The most portable tool in systemic practice. Why it shifts stuck conversations, thirty worked examples, and the three ways it goes wrong.
Read the article →Systemic practice
Family therapy vs individual therapy: how to know which one a case needs
Where you locate the difficulty shapes everything that follows. The signs a case needs a systemic lens, and the signs it does not.
Read the article →Art therapy
Art therapy or just art activities? What actually makes it therapy
It is not the materials. It is the theory underneath, the focus on process, the relationship, and the ethics most people miss.
Read the article →Career pathways
How to become a family therapist in Australia
The qualifications, supervised practice and professional bodies that matter, and an honest note on where short foundation training fits.
Read the article →Who writes this
The AkindaCo education team, led by Rana Kökçinar, Senior Psychotherapist, Family Therapist and Education Lead. Everyone who writes here holds a clinical caseload. Meet the people who teach our courses, or read our published research and conference presentations.
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