Ali Berquez, MSc, PG Dip CT (Oxon), BRIEF Cert. SF Practice

Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a short-term psychotherapeutic approach. It supports clients and clinicians to pay attention to a client’s strengths and resources, helps them to focus on what is going well and frames conversations in a positive direction. The session will give participants a taster of its application to work with children and young people who stutter and their parents. We will explore how to identify what clients want from the therapy process, and what helps them move towards their desired outcomes. The webinar will include video examples.

Bio: Ali Berquez is Clinical Lead for Children at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering in London, UK, where she has worked since 2000. Her role includes working with clients of all ages including adults who stutter; teaching nationally and internationally (including the Stuttering Foundation’s annual Eastern Workshop in Boston), writing, offering clinical supervision and contributing to research projects. She has collaborated with Professor Patricia Zebrowski and her team in the USA over the past few years to explore the expectations of young people and parents from therapy using Solution Focused principles. Ali is a Study Day Coordinator for the UK’s National Clinical Excellence Network in Dysfluency and a certified European Fluency Specialist.