Oxford Foundation and Intermediate Systemic Courses
Oxford Systemic Therapy Training (OSTT) 
We are passionate trainers and are invested in developing systemic practice skills with a wide range of health and social care professionals from different settings across the life span.
We lead PGCert Foundation and PGDip Intermediate Systemic Courses with Oxford Brookes University and the Association of Family and Systemic Psychotherapy accredited embedded courses within the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at Oxford University. We began to offer courses for health and social care professionals in partnership with Oxford Brookes in 2022/2023. Our PG Cert course is accredited by AFT and we are waiting accreditation for the PG Dip which is imminent. We are a partnership with Oxford Brookes University. Successful Applicants will enrol as Oxford Brookes students and have access to the library and other facilities.
Located in Oxford, OSTT is a team of family therapists, each with their unique cultural and clinical background committed to the development and application of systemic thinking to clinical practice and research.
We are also committed to tailoring our teaching to the uniqueness of each cohort, taking our students’ needs and resources into account.
What is Systemic Family Therapy?
Systemic family therapy is a family-based approach to mental health issues and a relational approach to ways of working with and within organisations. It is an evidence-based approach which involves a focus on the connections and patterns between people around difficulties as well as exploring relational strengths. It also involves a contextual and intergenerational understanding of people’s lives and a commitment to anti oppressive practice; considering power, inequality and diversity. It is also an approach that considers the self of the practitioner and the development of self-reflection within our work with others.
Our online open events for 2026 admissions are as follows: To register for these events please contact Systemictherapyadmissions-oxicptr@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
December 8th 2025 at 5-6pm
March 3rd 2026 at 5-6pm
April 20th 2026 5-6 pm
May 19th 2026 5-6pm
Interviews will be held throughout June 2026.
About us
Dr. Kathryn Evans – Systemic Lead, Systemic Family Psychotherapist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Kathryn has worked within Doctoral level Clinical Psychology Training in Oxford for 20 years. She has been the Systemic Lead there since 2017 for embedded the Foundation and Intermediate courses which are accredited by the Association of Family Therapy. She completed her Systemic Training at the Tavistock Clinic in 2021 and before this worked as a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Practitioner for many years. Her area of clinical practice is within Older Adults Mental Health.
Dr. Ferdinando Salamino - PGCert Foundation Course Lead
Ferdinando has been practicing as a systemic therapist since 2008 and is a member of the scientific board at the European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies in Milan. Upon moving to the UK in 2014, he has been offering therapeutic services to children and families in the Midlands. In 2016, he has been appointed Course Leader of the Systemic Family Practice training course of the CYP-IAPT East Midlands program. He is the Course Leader of MSc Counselling with Children and Young People at the University of Northampton and a systemic tutor on the Oxford Clinical Psychology Training Course. He is coordinator for the Foundation Course at Oxford Brookes University.
Fawzia Kauser – PGDip Intermediate Course Lead
Fawzia is the coordinator of the Intermediate level course in Systemic Therapy, and contributes to both the Foundation level and the systemic stream on the DClinPsych course at Oxford University. Fawzia works clinically in Northamptonshire as a Systemic Family Therapist with older people and their families in a Community Mental Health Team, and also with people accessing a younger person’s dementia service. Prior to this, Fawzia worked for a long time in CAMHS (with experience in in-patient, day-patient, community and specialist settings) as a Mental Health Nurse, initially and since 2009 as a Family Therapist. Fawzia is also a Systemic Supervisor.
