Jenny Brown, MSW

Dr Jenny Brown has worked in child and family mental health and family therapy since the 1980s. She has been a trainer, supervisor, author and researcher in Australia and internationally for some decades.

Jenny is Emeritus Executive Director of the Family Systems Institute Sydney, which she co-founded in 2004, where Australians could study Bowen family systems theory. She currently directs the Family Systems Practice and the Parent Hope Project (manualized interventions in child mental health). Her particular interest is family dynamics, relationships and parent-child well-being. She is a clinical member and supervisor for the Australian Association of Family Therapy and, in 2018, received the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy award for distinguished contribution to family therapy in Australia. In 2022, she received the annual research award from Bowen Centre for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC.