Ali Berquez and Martha Jeffery will describe the application of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to clinical supervision. They will describe the principles and practice of SFBT in brief; discuss a Solution Focused Mindset and its core components; focus on exploring a supervisee’s best hopes from clinical supervision including the use of scaling; and then describe how to discuss work that’s going well and work that’s not going so well; concluding with a discussion of complimenting and ending clinical supervision sessions. Video examples will be shared. 


Learning Objectives: Participants will: 1. Understand the guiding principles of SFBT. 2. Be able to describe how to explore a supervisee’s best hopes. 3. Understand the process of scaling in clinical supervision. 4. Have a range of questions to use in exploring work that’s going well and work that’s not going so well. 5. Know how to include complimenting and how to end clinical supervision sessions.



Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, Students


Ali Berquez is Clinical Lead at the Michael Palin Centre in London. She works clinically with clients of all ages who stammer and/ or clutter, including adults. As a qualified practitioner in SFBT and CBT, Ali integrates these methods into her clinical work. Ali is an experienced teacher and trainer who regularly delivers courses in the UK and internationally (including the Stuttering Foundation’s annual Eastern Workshop in Boston). She is involved in writing, offering clinical supervision, and contributing to research projects. Ali is Chair of the UK’s National Stammering Clinical Excellence Network, part of the scientific committee for the Oxford Dysfluency Conference and a certified European Stuttering Specialist and recently published a book about SFBT Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents: A Practical Guide from the Michael Palin Centre (2024) with her co-presenter, Martha Jeffery. 

Martha Jeffery is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at the Michael Palin Centre (MPC) in London.  She works with children and young people who stammer and their families – in 1:1 therapy and in groups – and with adults who stammer.  She contributes to the MPC’s research programme (most recently she co-presented a poster about ‘What do people want from stammering therapy?’).  She also delivers MPC’s teaching and training programme – most recently on using SFBT in stammering therapy, and soon on using Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with children under 7 years old who stammer, which will be simultaneously translated into Turkish to a large group of Turkish SLTs and SLT students.  Martha has attended additional training in CBT, and has an Advanced Certificate in SBFT from BRIEF (London)’s year-long programme.  She is co-author of Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents: A Practical Guide from the Michael Palin Centre(2024) with Ali Berquez.