My paper has been accepted

Coming soon to the Journal of Solution Focused Practices

Over the last 18months I have had a private client in the USA who has been seeing me for counselling. Hers is a pretty unique story, and I have been amazed at both the work she has done and the progress she has made.

Maggie and her family have agreed for her story to be shared with the hope that it inspires people who are in similar circumstances, as well as the clinicians who are supporting them.

My co-author was Kate Kowalski, Maggie's mother. Kate is very well known in SFBT having been a member of the Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee in the early days of SFBT being developed. Kate writes from a dual perspective, as a mother and as a clinician with 40+ years of SFBT experience. Both of Maggie's parents sat in on all of the sessions.

Working with Maggie, and writing this paper with her and Kate, has been one of the biggest highlights of my career.

We received some really positive feedback from friends and colleagues including:

Eve Lipchik: "I read your case study last night and it is just superb. I'm saying this without exaggerating. There is nothing I would change about it."

Michael Durrant "I agree with Eve … don’t change a single word! It is a wonderful paper, incredibly useful and contributes things that are completely new."

Blind Reviewer No.1: "A key strength of this paper and a major reason for its acceptance, is the emphasis on the importance of the therapeutic relationship ... Another related strength is the difference between a client simply being listened to and their feeling heard and understood by the therapist."

Blind Reviewer No.2: "This article would be useful for any solution-focused or healthcare practitioner wishing to be inspired about ways to co-create progress towards desired change, with people dealing with lifelong chronic health and developmental issues. ... The newness and difference brought by the authors’ phenomenal honesty is profound because it gives permission to all of us to be unsure, make mistakes, commit to noticing and always be led by what the clients we interact with show and tell us."

I hope you enjoy reading this paper which will be published in the 2nd half of the year. Watch this space, and I will provide a link to the paper when it is published.