Solution Based Counselling Practitioner Cert (ACCREDITED)

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.