Beautiful souls. Here's a preview from this episode's interview was the first time I was introduced to this thing called solution focus brief therapy and it's a kind of therapy that's about the outcomes the client has for the the outcomes the client wants to achieve in their life and the hope they have for their future and it just made complete and total sense to me and I knew this is the the way I wanted to work.

This was how I wanted to talk to people. This is how I wanted to base my work and I have not really turned back.

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Hello beautiful souls welcome back to the angels and awakening podcast and your host and author Julie Jansis and friends today we have Elliott Connie on the podcast to talk about his book the solution focused brief therapy diamond it's a new approach to SFBT that will empower both practitioner and client to achieve the best outcomes Elliott welcome to the show thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. Yes, so I want to start out here because I know that there is just so much that our listeners are going to gain from this conversation today.

solution based solution focus brief therapy you say is a therapeutic therapeutic approach that focuses on the clients hope for the future instead of their ongoing problems this is different from anything else that I've even seen when it comes to therapy.

How does this help how did you even find this I want to know everything.

Yeah, so I guess I'll start with how I found it I'll take you back to the beginning solution for the brief therapy has been around since the late 70s and I was in graduate school in the early 2000s and really just wanted to learn how to help people and how to do therapy in an effective way.

I don't feel like graduate school teaches you that graduate school teaches you about theory it teaches you about history of things and it teaches you techniques and I come from a real I mean there's some really difficult things in my in my childhood associated with an abusive father and anger in my home and feeling unsafe and all those things.

I was really I remember being really like disappointed that I wasn't learning how to like do therapy.

I was just learning about all these theories and most of them if not all of them were problem focused and I couldn't imagine sitting in an office for an hour talking to someone about the worst parts of my childhood and not being affected negatively.

And consequence of that I also couldn't imagine putting other people in that position where they had to talk about their most difficult moments and experiences negatively so it was a struggle for me was a massive struggle for me and then one day man I was reading this book and it was a kind of book that had a whole bunch of theories in it.

And one small part of that book really resonated with me and it was the first time I was introduced to this thing called solution focus brief therapy and it's a kind of therapy that's about the outcomes the client has for the the outcomes the client wants to achieve in their life and the hope they have for their future and it just made complete and total sense to me and I knew this is the way I wanted to work.

This was how I wanted to talk to people this is how I wanted to base my work and I have not really turned back it's amazing okay so I want to break this down even more for people because I've been going to a counselor often on my entire life since my parents went through a divorce and I was young and I remember not knowing how to do therapy but when you're young you don't understand what it is that you're even.

I'm saying retrospect nobody comes in and says how to do therapy and so many of them are really focused on talking about your issues or what had happened when it's different and it is this new way of focusing on hope and your future what does that actually look like when you're in the session.

It looks like me asking you about it like most people come to therapy prepared to be asked like what brings you into therapy and then you talk about your problem i'm depressed i'm anxious my in using your example you just gave my parents went through divorce so on and so on.

That wasn't that's not necessarily trying to think how to word this that's not what we do when we use solution focus brief therapy and that's not necessarily the most helpful.

In efficient way of going about it what we ask our clients when we first meet them is what outcome are you hoping to achieve for being in therapy and by asking that question.

We start talking immediately about hoped for futures.

As opposed to the problem and the power of talking about a hope for future is inspiration happens motivation happens.

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