03/12/2026
Important! re. Filial Therapy..
As I try to slow down from my 80-hour work week, I have been transitioning things I love to wonderful and very capable professionals I have trained, supervised, and worked with in several capacities who are in several different parts of the world.
I have never seen a more effective intervention than Filial Therapy (FT) created, developed, and researched by Drs. Bernard and Louise Guerney, with whom I studied and served as teaching assistant 45 years ago. When done as they developed it, it opens many doors and serves children and parents in most beneficial ways. I have been privileged to create my 4-day training program for professionals that does not omit or divert anything from the Guerneys' incredible contribution to families. It has been wonderful to see the excitement of the many I've trained and supervised in FT in the past 4+ decades.
In the last couple years, I have been transitioning this FT course to those I fully support as Certified FT Instructors. We also transitioned information about FT, the FT Instructors I have worked with, and training opportunities to a new website: https://filialtherapy.org
Please check it out, and consider training in this powerful intervention (also can be used as an enhancement or prevention program) at this site. You won't be sorry!
P.S. Info on my books for professionals and parents (multiple languages) is available at risevanfleet.com/shop.
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