Author: Jenny Brown

BA, B Social Work, M Couple and Family Therapy. Lauren is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Family Therapist who lives in Canberra with her husband Andrew and their three children. Over the past ten years Lauren has worked in child and adolescent mental health services and private practice in Australia and Scotland, and is currently working at headspace Canberra and lecturing at Charles Sturt University. She has published articles with the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy and in 2019 she completed the Family Systems Institute”s Graduate Certificate Program in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Practice. Since first encountering Bowen theory through her family therapy work, Lauren has found it a compelling description of the challenges we all face in life”s relationships, with the ideas resonating across therapeutic, workplace and ministry contexts.