ABSTRACT
Working systemically with individual clients is established within the schools of family therapy. It is possible to adapt family therapy skills when working with individual family members. Therapy with individuals calls upon the creativity of the therapist to be systemic. The therapist working with individuals needs to develop a level of systemic self-awareness. The use of action methods can help individuals to gain a different view upon their presenting problems and enable them to take up a different position in their relationships and in relation to their social identity. When therapists work with individual clients systemically, it is as if they are opening a window between the client and their significant relationships and life experiences. When the therapist helps the individual client think about the current stage of their family and individual system, they are able to reflect upon the different stages that they have transitioned. Transitions are considered times of opportunity and also times of challenge across cultures.
