Judith’s core training as a social worker, systemic couple and family therapist, and dialogical psychotherapist informs her clinical work.
Throughout all stages of the therapy Judith maintains a focus on the individual in the context of their relationships.
Within this frame she uses a variety of therapeutic modalities, tailoring the therapy at to suit the immediate and evolving needs of the individual, couple or family.
Therapy may involve verbal therapies including Interpersonal Therapy or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, trauma therapies including EMDR and EFT, attachment based therapies including Circle of Security, Watch, Wait and Wonder, expressive therapies including Art, Writing or Sandplay Therapy, and the network-oriented psychotherapeutic approach of Open Dialogue.
Judith’s therapeutic work with individuals, couples, families, and the wider systems aims to engender dialogue in the understanding that new possibilities or understandings may emerge when people gain a deeper sense of attunement, responsiveness and mutuality in the space between - the space between self and other, between self and family, self and community, self and the world.
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing, because it is demanding all of you”
— Marina Abramovich
Judith’s Biography
Judith M Brown PhD is a clinical social worker and an individual, couple and family therapist, based in Sydney Australia. Her therapeutic practice emphasises the importance of safe, secure and attuned relationships with oneself, others and the wider world to best promote mental well-being.
Judith is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) with the Australian Association of Social Workers. She holds a PhD in Social Work, a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Social Work (BSW Hons 1 with University Medal), Master in Couple and Family Therapy (MCFT).
She is internationally credentialed as a supervisor and trainer in dialogical approaches to couple and family psychotherapy (Dialogic Partners Helsinki & University of Jyväskylä, Finland). She provides training and supervision to individual clinicians and mental health teams:
www.judithbrownfamilytherapy.com
Judith had worked clinically over the last 13 years within government child and adolescent mental health and non-government relationship counselling settings, providing therapy to individuals (adults, young people and children), couples and families.
Judith’s areas of research include recurrent grief of mothers of young adults with intellectual disability, the experience and effect of psychological and emotional abuse within families, and participant experiences of training in dialogical approaches to couple and family therapy.
Judith provides therapy where there are difficulties with:
Depression and anxiety;
Stress and anger management;
Trauma and neglect of children and adults;
Couple conflict;
Attachment and intimacy;
Separation and divorce;
Adjustment to blended families;
Parenting difficulties;
Child behavioural problems;
Grief, loss and bereavement;
Life transitions;
Family conflict and domestic & family violence;
Psychological abuse and emotional abuse;
Children in out-of-home care;
Carers in the context of mental illness and disability.
The importance of the space in between, often goes unnoticed in our lives. It’s that pause for tea that allows for contemplation. It’s that split second we take for courage when our therapist asks a hard question. It’s that deep breath that helps us find ourselves.
“There are many reasons to walk a labyrinth – solace, strength, clarity, celebration, insight, to quiet the mind, to solve a problem – but the most fascinating result ... to ignite seeker’s latent potential and find an avenue for its expression in the world.”
— Joan Artress, 2006