Victoria Harrison, MA

Victoria Harrison, MA, trained in the Postgraduate Program in Family Systems Theory and Psychotherapy at the Georgetown University Family Center, 1975-1979, following graduation from Rice University in Houston, TX and graduate school at Antioch University in Baltimore, MD. She also studied biofeedback and physiology at the Family Center, under the direction of Lilian Rosenbaum, PhD, with a clinical and research focus on health and reproduction. In 1995, she added the use of neurofeedback in psychotherapy and research based in Bowen theory. She served on the Georgetown Family Center’s clinical staff from 1978 to 1991, when she moved to Houston, TX, where she established a clinical practice and Center for the Study of Natural Systems and the Family (www.csnsf.org).

Ms. Harrison commuted from Texas to Washington, DC to serve on the faculty of the Bowen Center from 1993 to 2023. She directed the Bowen Center’s Postgraduate Program for the years 2003-2008 and 2010-2015, served on the Center’s Board of Directors from 2011-2016, and coordinated development of the Online Introduction to Bowen Theory program in 2015. Ms. Harrison continues to teach and present at the Bowen Center and elsewhere, while focused on completing research and writing projects. She also continues to serve on the advisory board of the Bowen Center’s journal, Family Systems.

Her current research includes: (1) a study of reactivity to relationships in the family that affects health and reproduction, (2) variation in differentiation of self evident in physiological reactivity between family members, and (3) the Observations of Change Project, which documents changes in physiology and functioning associated with work on differentiation of self.

Writing projects include: The Dance of Life, a survey of emotional systems along the human phylogenetic lineage, and articles based on research projects. She is also the author of My Family My Self: A Journal of Discovery, which is used for research and self-study based on Bowen theory, and The Family Diagram and Family Research.

Contact Information: vaharrison@csnsf.org and 713-790-0226