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Digital Seminar

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Creating Lasting Change Rapidly

Faculty:
Elliott Connie, MA, LPC
Duration:
2 Hours
Copyright:
10 Oct, 2025
Product Code:
POS150456
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.

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Description

The Solution Focused Approach is often misconstrued as being focused on positivity instead of presenting problems. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While the work does center around moving toward a client’s positive hope for the future, it doesn’t ignore the problem at hand. In this workshop, you’ll explore how to use the Solution Focused approach to respectfully address clinical issues—from depression and trauma to anxiety and relationship issues—and guide clients toward a place of well-being and healing. You'll discover: 

  • A new perspective on trauma work that integrates a strong focus on outcome   
  • How to help clients quickly achieve goals by accessing often buried, positive aspects of their wider experience  
  • How to help clients internalize their own strengths & access them in their own inner language 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Faculty

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC's Profile

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Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, is a Texas-based psychotherapist in private practice and the founder/director of The Solution-Focused University, an online learning community that trains and provides resources for professionals who want to master the Solution Focused approach in their work. Over the course of his 15-year clinical career, Elliott has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families using a solution-focused model to help them achieve their desired outcomes. He is an experienced speaker who has gained international recognition for training hundreds of practitioners throughout the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia on the solution-focused treatment model. Elliott is the author/co-author of four books, including Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Solution focused Marriage: 5 Simple Habits That Will Bring Out the Best in Your Relationship (The Connie Institute, 2012), Solution Building in Couples Therapy (Springer, 2012), and The Art of Solution Focused Therapy (Springer, 2009).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Elliott Connie is the founder of The Solution Focused Universe and maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as a published author. Elliott Connie receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ellicott Connie is a member of the American Counselor Association and the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Demonstrate three core interventions used in SFBT.
  2. Utilize the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Approach as a single session intervention.
  3. Propose the common mechanisms of change in the Solution Focused Brief Therapy approach as it relates to traumatic stress.

Outline

  • Why a solutions focused approach doesn’t mean ignoring problems  
  • The core principles of clinical psychotherapy using SFBT 
  • Demonstrating SFBT in a real single-session 
  • Current research, including the strengths and limitations of this approach. 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counsellors

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