Solution Based Counselling Practitioner Cert (ACCREDITED)

Explore traditional counseling, its highs, lows, and perils. Introduce the SBC framework, ethical framework, three helping models, the six-step process, and client prerequisites.

Explore traditional counseling as a non-judgemental, relationship-based process that emphasizes emotional health, holistic care, and client empowerment, while contrasting with solutions-based approaches.

Explore how solution based counselling shifts the goal from solving clients' problems to helping them discover their own solutions, blending Carl Rogers' client-centered framework with other approaches for change.

Solution based counselling blends client-centered therapy with insights from Ellis on rapid change and other models to enable lasting change through language, intuition, and a six-step framework.

Explore the Albert Ellis ABC model—from activating events to beliefs and consequences—and how disturbing beliefs support change within the solution based counselling framework. Preview the Gerard Egan model for change.

Compare counselling models, emphasize problem solving, exploring the person, client-centered approach, challenging beliefs, and planning for improvement, with a note on emotional intelligence.

Explore the emotional intelligence framework by Daniel Goleman to enhance self-awareness, self-management, resilience, empathy, and relationships in solution based counseling for practitioner and client.

Explore the six-step solution based counselling framework that builds trust, relates to the client and issue, disrupts the core problem, fosters client-created solutions, and plans, executes, and reviews progress.

Explore the SBC prerequisites by showing that clients are not their emotions or behaviors, change requires personal responsibility, and emotions and behaviors are choices.

Create a safe, confidential space and stay present to foster change; guide clients to look inward, practice non-judgemental listening, and expand their choices to transform lives.

Explore the shift from traditional to solution based counselling, outline SBC's six-step framework, and integrate CBT, Gerald Egan, and EQ five-step models with BACP ethical considerations and prerequisites.

Discover the core skills for solution based counseling, including seven basic counseling skills, transference, therapeutic efficiency, avoiding reliance, intuition, and conversational shifts to empower clients.

Explore the seven core SBC skills: presence, silence, reflection, rapport, focused thinking, clarity, and concise session summaries, and learn practical exercises to master them in client counseling.

Explore core counseling practices rooted in Carl Rogers' unconditional positive regard, congruence, and empathy, and learn how a practitioner's authentic presence fosters client change.

Enforce time boundaries with a 50-minute timer, maintain a handshake-only physical boundary, guard emotional boundaries between empathy and attachment, and require payment before sessions.

Identify how emotionally charged sessions trigger transference, transferring past feelings into present, and how countertransference requires ending the relationship or referring clients to others with empathy and unconditional positive regard.

Therapeutic efficiency, coined by Albert Ellis, champions rapid, solution-based counseling that targets the root cause, promotes prevention and lasting happiness, and maintains progress between sessions.

Learn how to prevent client reliance by fostering progress maintenance, empowerment, and self-responsibility. Use tools, tasks, and self-education to help clients change their lives and celebrate small successes.

Develop intuition-based counseling within solution based practice by creating an intuitive space, practicing breathing and meditation, and trusting the higher self to guide client solutions.

Learn how conversational shifts empower clients in solution-based counselling to find their own solutions by creating a trusted space, asking pointed questions, and listening deeply.

This section reviews core counseling skills, including unconditional positive regard, empathy, boundaries, and transference. It summarizes the six-step solution based framework, therapeutic efficiency, and strategies for client empowerment.

Explore how solution dynamics drive change in clients and practitioners, review Cole Rogers' six conditions for therapeutic change, and examine Freud and Ellis models, defence mechanisms, and levels of consciousness.

Rogers' six conditions for change require two people in psychological contact to achieve congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathetic understanding, and clear communication of that understanding to facilitate change.

Identify the base area of change—situational, emotional, behavioral, educational, or physical—and use targeted tools and techniques to help clients find solutions in a supportive space.

Explore how clients move from their current state to a desired state through disruption, then gain intellectual and emotional insight, leading to cognitive and emotional integration and lasting change.

Explore the non-linear change model in counselling, where progress includes dips and crashes rather than a smooth trajectory, and learn to stay calm while guiding cognitive and emotional insight.

Explore Freud's three-part mind model, where the ego is the decision-making center, the idea mind drives desires, and the super I.D. imposes morals, aiming for balanced decisions.

Explore how the intelligent mind integrates emotional and analytical inputs to guide decisions. Learn to connect heart and mind, move beyond paralysis of analysis, and enable change.

Explore defense mechanisms—denial, repression, projection, regression, rationalization, and reaction—and how they hinder change. Break through defenses to reveal root causes and promote change through responsibility.

Dig beyond the safe problem to reach the quality problem, the root cause behind clients' stories. Apply solution-based counseling to help clients free themselves from recurring narratives and hidden patterns.

examine ellis's two domains of disturbance: ego and discomfort, focusing on boosting self-worth and belief of being good enough to reduce clients' emotional distress.

Explore the four levels of consciousness, life happens to me, life happens for me, and life happens through me, and the role of responsibility in empowering clients to change.

Review the six conditions of change from Carl Rogers, and explore emotional, physical, situational, and educational domains within the transitional, nonlinear change process.

Build a strong helping relationship in solution-based counseling by establishing rapid rapport, fostering trust, and applying empathy, intuition, and modality awareness to understand and connect with clients.

Build an effective helping relationship through rapport, trust, openness, and unconditional positive regard; practice empathy, warmth, and appropriate informality while defining responsibilities and maintaining confidentiality.

Build rapport in solution based counseling by showing warmth from the first moment, mirroring posture and breathing, and paraphrasing to show genuine listening.

This lecture explains that being heard and understood builds trust in solution based counseling by listening deeply, communicating understanding, showing compassion, and practicing honesty and authenticity.

Practice heart activation breathing to cultivate empathy and compassion. Learn to connect heart to heart, paraphrase feelings, and convey understanding while maintaining professional balance.

Explore the three modalities—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic—and learn how language patterns reveal clients' predominant experiences. Practice tailoring explanations and exercises to each sense in sessions.

Learn solution based counseling through the listening therapy, mastering active listening to understand clients, build trust, and achieve presence beyond passive listening.

We review the relate section of the six-step framework, detailing building the helping relationship, rapport, empathy, modalities, and active listening to understand clients.

Explore the client’s reference framework and personal storylines, identifying CBT negative patterns and meta emotional disturbance. Integrate Maslow and Tony Robbins emotional needs, and examine thoughts, values, emotions, and beliefs.

Explore internal and external referencing frameworks, their roots in childhood, and how to adapt practice with clients by using feedback, avoiding overreliance, and guiding self-validation.

Explore clients' personal storylines within their internal and external referencing frameworks, tracing a life timeline to identify past points shaping present anxiety and inform solution-based counseling.

Identify and dissect common negative thinking patterns such as all-or-nothing thinking, mental filtering, jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, and labeling to guide clients toward healthier beliefs.

identify and challenge common negative thinking patterns like overgeneralization, disqualifying the positive, magnifying or minimizing, shoulds, and personalization. learn to recognize them consciously and guide clients toward more constructive thinking.

Explore meta emotional disturbance, a thinking glitch where fear becomes disturbance about the disturbance, revealing layers from fear to frustration in helping practitioners.

Apply the hierarchy of ideas to thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, expanding to uncover purpose and intention, or condensing to analyze specifics with Socratic questioning.

Discover how the hierarchy of fears exercise uncovers the emotional disturbance behind fears, like starting a business, using a five-item worksheet to identify fears and deeper worries.

Explore the hierarchy of fears and the two core beliefs—being not enough and not being worthy—that fuel fear of failure or success, and recognize patterns to begin changing your life.

Explore Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from physiological and safety needs to love, belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, and see how these levels inform solution-based counseling practice.

Explore Tony Robbins's emotional needs framework, focusing on certainty, uncertainty, significance, and love, plus growth and contribution, and learn to help clients shift focus to healthier balances.

Explore modal operators to uncover clients' language, listening deeply and asking open questions that shift momentum and reveal underlying beliefs in counseling practice.

Explore how to spot incongruence in clients and maintain congruence as a practitioner by analyzing language, tonality, and body language, asking open questions, and practicing observational skills.

Use deliberate silence in solution-based counseling to give clients time and space to think, draw out honest insights, and discover their own answers.

Learn to apply solution-based counseling by guiding clients to understand their inner selves, uncover authenticity, and journal daily reflections on what they learned about themselves.

Explore how values shape behavior, uncover unconscious core values and how they shift through life with four categories—lifelong, age-related, condition-related, and incident-related values—through a solution-based value solicitation exercise.

Explore a values exercise that guides you to identify core values through past, present, and lifetime reflections, connecting thoughts, feelings, and what they give you to build client rapport.

Guide clients to complete daily thought records, identifying top thoughts, their feelings, and choices, to reveal patterns and empower disruption with solution based counseling.

Explore how self-talk and language shape thoughts, feelings, and actions by examining the meanings clients assign to life, questions, and outcomes to guide counselling.

Explore how emotions arise from four factors in the palm emotions framework, linking physical association, attention, language, and meaning to conscious mood shifts.

Identify and explore clients' beliefs about the world, others, and themselves; use targeted questions to uncover and disrupt these beliefs and replace them with empowering ones in solution-based counselling.

Frame a belief as a bounded picture and guide clients through questions on world, self, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Use disruption to break the frame and reveal a broader life.

Explore reference frameworks, personal stories, core fears, human needs, language, and self-understanding to disrupt limiting beliefs and guide clients toward their own solutions.

The disruption section explores the cognitive tug of war, teaching how to disrupt thoughts, emotions, language, beliefs, and values through self-learning, reflection, and journaling.

Explore the cognitive tug of war between the new desired state and old patterns, guiding clients with space, support, and practical tools to break recurring beliefs and behaviors.

Learn two disruption methods in solution based counselling: direct disruption, challenging beliefs with statements, and reflective disruption, guiding clients to examine thoughts and feelings through targeted questions.

Disrupt automatic thinking by identifying the primary thought and its language, then generate 2–4 alternative thoughts while tracking feelings to foster conscious choice and a shift in thought and emotion.

Disrupt an emotion by applying the PDA model—physical association, attention, language, and meaning. Guide clients to conscious pattern changes through new physical, attentional, linguistic, and meaning constructs.

Learn to disrupt limiting beliefs in solution-based counselling by guiding clients through questions that test truth, explore feelings, generate alternative beliefs, and establish commitment to change.

Explore self-learning through a socratic questionnaire that guides clients to pause, answer, and feel, disrupting beliefs, thoughts, and emotions at a conscious level.

Practice daily self-disruption through journaling to reveal and change beliefs, thoughts, and emotional reactions, keeping learning alive between sessions and guiding client growth.

Disrupt old thought, emotion, and belief patterns through cognitive dissonance, palm method, and Socratic questioning, plus journaling to help clients discover their own solutions.

Explore the counselling section on creating and updating clients, from establishing a creative space to thought association, emotional choice, belief creation, and value reassessment.

Create a creative space by guiding clients through breathing and heart-centered visualization to connect truth with analysis, locate a creative center, and generate multiple ideas to change beliefs or behaviors.

Explore a thought association exercise that helps replace old beliefs and emotions with a new creative way, using deep breathing, visualization, and sensory cues to align with your authentic self.

Explore solution based counselling through an emotional choice grid that helps clients identify three emotional codes: happy, joy, and relax, and create conscious, autonomous choices.

learn how beliefs form from experiences, language, and questions, then replace disempowering questions with empowering how-to prompts to update beliefs through repetition.

Apply strategies to perpetuate a new belief in clients by keeping reminders visible—home screens, sticky notes, or car mirrors—creating emotional attachment and replacing the old belief through repetition and questioning.

Reassess clients' values to ensure new beliefs, emotions, and behaviors align with what matters most, using value solicitation to confirm alignment and prevent derailment.

Practice creative space and breathing exercises to access your creative center, then apply thought association and emotional choice to reshape beliefs, emotions, and values for client alignment.

Plan and execute goals for improvement in solution based counselling, guiding clients from short-term beliefs toward life goals, actions, and a compelling future between sessions.

Collaborate with clients to set between-session goals using the SMART model—specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound—and track progress with the SUV scale across two-week intervals.

Explore life goals using the smart framework, including engaging, growth‑oriented aims that connect, contribute, and fulfill through journaling and purposeful action.

Guide clients in counselling through a compelling future exercise using guided imagery, breathing, and timeline visualization to envision a future life on their terms and cultivate gratitude, joy, and fulfillment.

Discover how to turn goals into concrete actions by applying the smart model, defining specific steps, timelines, and needed support, while assessing commitment to ensure progress.

Start a 90-day challenge by taking at least one action every day toward your goals, moving from emotional distress and old beliefs toward new solutions through solution-based counseling.

Explore the whole being connection in solution based counselling, using ecology checks to ensure every part of the client (mind, body, soul, spirit, and energy) aligns with the goal.

Apply smart goals for improvement and life, use a compelling future exercise to energize clients, and set daily actions and a 90-day challenge that align mind–body for buy-in.

Learn to review and update clients' improvement goals between sessions, using a one-goal-per-sheet approach, guided reflections, and emotional connections to drive ongoing progress.