Lorna Hecht-Zablow MFT, San Diego Family Systems Psychotherapist

07/17/2026

Starting next week, "Curious About Bowen theory?" An introductory course about family systems theory and therapy. Moving from an individual to a natural sytems perspective opens a new world of clinical and lived possibilities,

"Look at it another way." James, from James and the Giant Peach.

07/01/2026

Rafiki: Look down there.
[Slowly Simba walks to the edge of the watering hole and peers inside. His reflection stares back at him]
Adult Simba: That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No. Look harder.
[Rafiki touches the water which causes waves that change Simba's reflection into Mufasa]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.

Systems wisdom from the "Lion King", copied from IMBd.

What can a systems perspective add to your clinical practice, and your life?

06/26/2026

Registrations are in full swing!

If you are Bowen curious and have questions, contact me at [email protected].

06/16/2026

Do you remember liking Bowen theory in graduate school? Did systems thinking move to the back burner in the world of attachment theory, disorder diagnosis and treatment? It may be time to take a second look at what a natural systems approach has to offer.

06/12/2026

Registrations are in full swing. The study of family systems theory provides answers to questions that lead to new questions, just as Murray Bowen intended. It's a life-long learning process for those who pick up the gift and challenge of using Bowen theory as a guide to living.

Learn natural systems concepts
Become a better observer
Define self, develop self.

Get Curious; Stay Curious.

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06/08/2026

"Family Systems Theory contains no ideas that have not been a part of human experience through the centuries." Murray Bowen

05/28/2026

Are you a clinician who is fed up with using the medical model for emotional problems?
Insurance companies as overlords?
The DSM as your bible?
There is another way.
Stay Curious:

05/15/2026

Today is International Family day. Did you know that EVERY family has evolved to use the same mechanisms to manage the challenges of being together and dealing with life?

The genius of Murray Bowen is that he recognized this and formulated his theory based on what every family shares.

If you want to learn more about how the human family is a product of nature, and all of us are more alike than different, consider attending my new course.

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05/13/2026

Everything old is new again. (Song by Peter Allen)

Did you know that in addition to being the most comprehensive existing psychotherapeutic theory of the human, as early as the mid-1950s Murray Bowen was seeing and predicting our current societal regression and environmental crisis?

(With his (the human's) logical thinking and knowledge, he could have known decades ago that he was on a collision course with his environment."

05/11/2026

"The young professional has the choice of continuing conventional theory and therapy, or of incorporating a few systems concepts, or of trying to go all the way toward systems thinking. I believe a few systems concepts are better than none." Murray Bowen

Are you a clinician who uses some concepts from Bowen theory mixed with techniques from other approaches? Maybe you, or even your clients, would like to go further with systems thinking.