Tara Gretton
Accredited Advanced Solution Focused Practitioner and Therapeutic Social Worker
Email: taragrettonsolutions@gmail.com
Phone: 07780711797
The Solution Focused Approach: Dwelling in Possibility.
"Tara is brilliant at working with young people, gaining their trust and helping them to build their self confidence, happiness and resilience."
The Solution Focused Approach
The solution focused (SF) approach is compassionate, powerful, hopeful
and effective. It works with people to achieve their hoped-for change.
It places people as experts in their own their life's, whilst allowing them
to build on their existing strengths and capabilities. It helps them to
achieve their desired outcomes.
The SF approach works with people to invites them to have a clear vision of how they want their life to be, how they would like things to be different. It's about noticing the presence of what's wanted, rather than the absence of what's not wanted. The SF approach also invites people to notice what’s working already, about amplifying that and building on it, and not about focusing on or analysing the problem.
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Developed in the 1980’s in Milwaukee, USA, the SF approach was developed as a model of therapy. However, it is now widely applied across, health, social care, and educational settings. The SF approach can be applied in any setting, whether it be an organisation, a community, a group, a family, parents, or individuals. One of SF’s keys strengths is its focus on simplicity, which makes it so accessible as well as applicable in so many settings.
Vickie Wood, Parent
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About Me
As the founder of Solution Revolution, I am passionate in my belief that the solution focused approach can help anyone.
I am a qualified accredited and certified Solution Focused (SF) Practitioner, Coach, Trainer and Consultant and Registered Therapeutic Social Worker, and I've seen first hand how the SF approach can be used effectively with adults, children, young people, families, leaders, teams and organisations to support meaningful change, no matter how complex the situation.
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I work with adults as a coach to support them to manage the complexities of everyday life in personal and work settings. I work with leaders, to utilise the solution focused approach to lead with their heart in a collaborative and co-constructed manner. Working together with their teams to be at their collective best.
For children and young people, it can be applied at all levels of education, and it can enhance the education experience of every child and their teachers. As Solution Revolution, I am immensely proud to have worked with most of the primary and secondary schools across Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire. This work has ranged from hugely successful one-to-one work, group work, and staff training.
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I work with children and young people in school setting providing 1:1 solution focused therapy and coaching. I also provide this in my private practice, alongside working with the whole family. Solution focused takes a systemic perspective, where we notice that we can work together to co-create hoped for change.
In my practice I specialise in embodiment in therapy and coaching. Drawing on my Certification in Human Physiology, I use my knowledge to support people who have experienced trauma, anxieties in everyday living and the complexities of everyday life to be invited to understand their nervous systems and brains and to reflect on how this understanding might make to their self talk and interactions with the world and the people around them better.
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I am passionate about my work and the impact the SF approach can bring about in people's lives. If you'd like to chat to me about this work, do get in touch!
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