Laurie L. Charlés

Laurie L. Charlés, PhD, LMFT, implements systemic family therapy practice in international humanitarian relief contexts, in low and middle-income countries, and with vulnerable populations in conflict-affected states. She is the author and co-editor of several books in family therapy, most recently, Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings: Illustrations of Systemic Approaches in Everyday Clinical Work, with Dr. Thorana Nelson, and is co-editor, with Dr Gameela Samarasinghe, of Family Therapy in Global Humanitarian Contexts: Voices and Issues from the Field (2016) & Family Systems and Global Humanitarian Mental Health: Approaches in the Field (2019), both of which examine critical issues specific to the practice of systemic family therapy within global mental health contexts, with a particular attention to the humanitarian sphere. She is currently Project Lead for "Global Family Systems & Psychosocial Resilience," a Rapid Response grant to support community resilience during Covid19 https://www.globalfamilysystems.com/