Solution focused counselling
Improve your counselling skills, invest in Solution Focused training. Today the book is a special price of only $14.99 and start to have conversations of Hope!
Resources:
Stephanie Johnson’s latest book is available, Solution focused counselling…Keeping it Real; The art of helpful conversations, available here! Awesome book focusing on the practical elements of this framework, makes the principles easy to understand and apply in practice.
This is an ebook however if you wish to obtain a Hard copy version at same price contact Stephaniej@solutionfocusedcounselling.com to purchase hard copy. Really easy!
Charities:
All proceeds of the sale of the book goes to charities that Stephanie is committed to, orphans in Burundi and East Timor. Lets make a difference together today!
Workshops, training, seminars, in house workshops and clinical supervision now available through out Australia: Contact Stephanie today on 0402371448 for more information.
Stephanie is now available in Australia for personalised workshops and training in solution focused, strengths based, behaviour management, trauma and team work building, contact Stephanie now for more information, give your team refocus with one of Stephanie’s dynamic workshops!
Ring Stephanie today for more information and make a booking for training and one day workshop near you, on 0402371448.
Special discount until 10/5/13 all workshops booked before this date will attract a 10% discount, training is now affordable to all NGO’s and charities.
What is Solution Focused Counselling?
Solution focused counselling focuses on solutions rather than the problems themselves. As such it highlights people’s strengths and competences instead of their perceived deficits, weaknesses and limitations.
This shift in paradigm is dramatically different from previous counselling techniques that concentrated on identifying problems and trying to explain their origins. Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg were the founders of solution focused therapy in the 1980′s both were based in USA. Sadly both have pass away recently.
There are several assumptions that provide the framework of solution focused counselling.
- All people have strengths and inner resources to solve life’s challenges.
- “Change is one of life’s constants”. Not only is change possible it is always happening.
- The counsellor’s role in the therapy session is to help each client identify the change that is occurring and to help them increase that level of change.
- We do not need to know what caused a problem to be able to solve it.
- Change begins with small steps
- The client is the expert in their life.
- The person is not the problem, the problem is the problem
- If its not working, do something different
What are the benefits and potential risks of Solution Focused Counselling?
The primary benefit of solution focused counselling is that the client finds solutions to their problems. This can result in a reduction in the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression and interpersonal
relationships may improve. Another benefit of solution focused counselling is that the client and counsellor identify clear goals at the start. As a result of this the client and counsellor will both know what success looks like and therefore can easily identify when counselling is no longer required.
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Stephanie Johnson is a former Lecturer in Social Work at Charles Sturt University, Australia and a trained counsellor. Previously, Stephanie has had lecturing positions with Liverpool John Moore University, England, MCI Innsbruck, Austria and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia. Stephanie has had over fourteen years experience in the field of social work and solution focussed counselling in Australia and England. 
