About Systemic Psychotherapy in Queen's University Belfast
Systemic practice and family therapy helps people in close relationships to better understand and support each other. It enables individuals and family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.
Systemic family therapy has been found to be effective across the life course in helping children, young people, adults, couples and families struggling with a broad range of difficulties and circumstances.
Systemic Practitioners and Family and Systemic Psychotherapists work in many health and social care settings such as children’s services, older people’s services, physical health and disability, substance misuse, justice and mental health services.
Our multidisciplinary Systemic Practice and Family Therapy programmes are suitable for professionally qualified staff who wish to enhance their skills of working with families, couples, individuals, other systems and relationship networks.
There are three levels of systemic practice clinical training: Foundation (PG Certificate), Intermediate (PG Diploma) and Qualifying (MSc Systemic Psychotherapy).
This MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy is designed for those who have completed Intermediate level training and who wish to qualify as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist and achieve full registration as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
Academic qualification equivalents
- A university degree in a related subject.
English language requirements (one of the below):
- IELTS: 7.0 with minimum of 5.5 in all four elements of the test
- TOEFL iBT : 95 with minimum marks as follows: Listening - 17,Reading - 18,Speaking - 20
Writing - 17
- PTE: 67 overall with minimum of 51 in each component
Queen's University Belfast Highlights
| University Type |
Public |
| Campus Setting |
Urban |
| Establishment Year |
1849 |
| Endowment |
£67.1million |
| International fee |
Undergraduate – £22,316 Postgraduate- £21,596 |
| Mode of Program |
Full time, distance and online |
Queen’s University Belfast Cost of Attendance
| Expenses |
Estimated cost in pounds |
| Undergraduate tuition fee |
£17,716 |
| Postgraduate tuition fee |
£16,996 |
| On campus accommodation |
£7,142 |
| Average cost of living |
£4,600 |
