Linda MacKay
Linda MacKay PhD, who is a Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Member of the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, has a well-established reputation in the couple and family therapy field in Australia. She is well-known as a very engaging trainer who brings complex ideas to life, not only as a clinician and supervisor, but also for business leaders and their staff working in non-clinical organisational and workplace environments. As a highly respected clinician, she is known in the field as a "therapist's therapist", providing supervision and coaching to senior practitioners and teams across the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, social work and family, adult, child and adolescent mental health. She has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families, and has specialised in working with people who have suffered grief and loss, sexual issues and complex trauma issues including child sexual abuse, domestic violence, dissociation and self-harm. Linda's approach to her work informed by many years working within traditional psychotherapeutic models, has evolved to take into account the neurobiology of trauma and anxiety and the embeddedness of these symptoms within the family emotional process. She is the Associate Editor (In Practice) for the Australian
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teacher–learner didacticism. This paper provides an overview of collaborative approaches to supervision in family
therapy. It then focuses on Bowen family systems and encouraging differentiation in the relationship process
between supervisor and supervisee as a useful approach towards equal collaboration. The authors use case
examples to illustrate what impedes and fosters mutuality in the supervision process where both supervisor and
supervisee learn from each other.
Keywords: collaborative, family systems, Bowen, supervision, differentiation
often ‘messy’, when interventions that ‘should’ work, don’t, or the unexpected arises.
Nevertheless, explanations that speak to recovery from trauma more and more
rely on neurobiological concepts to account for any positive change. Combining the
family systems approach of Murray Bowen and recent research on the brain and
trauma, post trauma symptoms are viewed as part of the ‘family emotional process’
even when traumatic events have emanated from outside the family system itself.
Variations in responses to trauma, including dissociation and self-harm are discussed
in relation to chronic anxiety and ‘differentiation of self’.
Keywords: child abuse trauma, anxiety, dissociation, Bowen family systems theory, differentiation,
neuroscience
teacher–learner didacticism. This paper provides an overview of collaborative approaches to supervision in family
therapy. It then focuses on Bowen family systems and encouraging differentiation in the relationship process
between supervisor and supervisee as a useful approach towards equal collaboration. The authors use case
examples to illustrate what impedes and fosters mutuality in the supervision process where both supervisor and
supervisee learn from each other.
Keywords: collaborative, family systems, Bowen, supervision, differentiation
often ‘messy’, when interventions that ‘should’ work, don’t, or the unexpected arises.
Nevertheless, explanations that speak to recovery from trauma more and more
rely on neurobiological concepts to account for any positive change. Combining the
family systems approach of Murray Bowen and recent research on the brain and
trauma, post trauma symptoms are viewed as part of the ‘family emotional process’
even when traumatic events have emanated from outside the family system itself.
Variations in responses to trauma, including dissociation and self-harm are discussed
in relation to chronic anxiety and ‘differentiation of self’.
Keywords: child abuse trauma, anxiety, dissociation, Bowen family systems theory, differentiation,
neuroscience