One of the things that lit my fire for teaching the Solution Focused Approach are the many myths that exist about this approach amongst people in the helping professions. From the very beginning of my journey towards doing Solution Focused […]
It has often been said that the Solution Focused Approach is easy to learn but hard to do; this was certainly the case for me. Even though the approach made instantaneous sense to me from the moment I was introduced […]
Let me tell you quick story. This past weekend I was scheduled to lecture about the Solution Focused Approach at a large national conference. Leading up to this event I was very excited. I was going to be teaching with one […]
A few months ago, I received what I thought was a very unusual email from a person that lived in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the email, the person asked if they could study Solution Focused Brief Therapy with me by literally […]
The Solution Focused Approach is very different from traditional forms of more problem focused psychotherapy and often does not fit with our original training in this field. As a result, this approach can be hard to learn and even harder […]
I have made no secret about it, my childhood years were not easy. When I look back on those years what was most difficult is not what most people would think. It was not the many punches I took from […]
First, a good question is one that produces a useful response from the client. As I travel and teach clinicians to use Solution Focused language in their work it has been made clear to me how hard this approach is […]
People often ask me what drives me and how I keep moving forward. I never really know how to explain what drives me. However, I can say that a few of the things that keeps me going is focusing on […]
In the past few years, as I have pursued my professional goals, I have written many blogs, books, book chapters, articles and so on. However, this one is one of the most emotional I have ever written. This because, this […]
Traveling around the world teaching professionals to use the Solution Focused Approach has taught me a few things, perhaps even more than I have taught. One such thing is there are some people that have an initial response to the […]
