FOUNDATIONS OF
SOLUTION FOCUSED
NARRATIVE THERAPY

Learn Solution Focused Narrative Therapy (SFNT), the model created by Dr. Linda Metcalf that combines solution focused brief therapy and narrative therapy into a practical approach for today's most challenging mental health cases. SFNT has been used globally with clinical cases including:

  • Trauma

  • Addiction

  • Infidelity

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Sexual Abuse Recovery

  • Cancer Patients and Survivors

  • Family Conflict

  • Relationship Challenges

  • Bi-cultural Challenges

IN THIS 3-HOUR SEMINAR YOU WILL LEARN:

  • The core principles of SFNT
  • How to externalize problems
  • The SFNT mindset behind the model
  • Questions that uncover strengths and possibilities
  • How to keep problems from entering the conversation so solutions can develop
  • Ways to engage clients that other approaches haven't reached
  • How to reach clients with complex, debilitating situations
Featuring real cases, video demonstrations and spontaneous role plays

PART 1 - AUGUST 14, 2026

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

LIVE ONLINE TRAINING

No matter how painful the story, change begins when clients reauthor the future.

ABOUT THIS TRAINING

Course Overview

This training is designed for licensed professional counselors who want a practical way to work with the cases that don't respond to problem-focused approaches. Part 1 teaches the constructs of Solution Focused Narrative Therapy — how the model thinks, how it sounds in conversation, and how it invites clients to step out of a problem-saturated story and into one they would rather live.

Through videos, exercises, and spontaneous role plays, you will see the model at work with real clinical situations. You will leave with questions you can use in your very next session — and a new way of joining with clients in re-storying their lives, honoring their values, and taking new actions.

  • Built by a practitioner: Dr. Metcalf created SFNT across thirty-five years of clinical work

  • Used globally with clinical mental health cases, from trauma to relationship challenges

  • A 3-hour live session with practice woven throughout — not a lecture

  • The session recording is yours to revisit after the training

  • Part 2 continues the series with practice on your own cases

Solution Focused Narrative Therapy model Solution Focused Brief Therapy plus Narrative Therapy combine into Solution Focused Narrative Therapy, created by Dr. Linda Metcalf. Solution Focused Brief Therapy Precise, solution-building questions + Narrative Therapy Story depth and re-authoring Solution Focused Narrative Therapy One brief, practical model Created by Dr. Linda Metcalf

AGENDA

Schedule

Part 1: Fundamentals

Friday, August 14, 2026

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST · Live online

  • 9:00 – 10:30 AM : The core ideas and mindset of the SFNT model, taught through videos, role plays, and exercises

  • 10:30 – 10:45 AM : Break

  • 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM : The model at work — application through videos, exercises, and spontaneous role plays

    To take with you : Practice assignments to try in your own sessions

Part 2: Advanced Practice

Dates will be announced

Part 1 participants can add Part 2 for $70

  • 9:00 – 10:30 AM : Discussion of the practice assignments and the outcomes participants experienced using SFNT

  • 10:30 – 10:45 AM : Break

  • 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM : Practice exercises built on participants' own clinical cases — bring a case you'd like to conceptualize through SFNT

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Meet Your Instructor

Dr. Linda Metcalf

PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S / Professor of Graduate Counseling Programs, Texas Wesleyan University

"Empowering professionals through solution focused narrative therapy that guides clients into re-storying their lives, reclaiming their values and creating the change they desire."

Dr. Linda Metcalf is the creator of Solution Focused Narrative Therapy. She is the author of twelve books, including numerous foundational texts in solution focused counseling, and a dedicated educator. Drawing upon decades of rich clinical and academic experience, she translates how to work with complex cases into simpler, doable conversational ways that engage even the clients other approaches haven't reached.

Her teaching philosophy combines rigorous academic standards with compassionate, real-world application, ensuring that professionals leave her courses equipped to use what they've learned in their very next session.

Certificate of Attendance

  • Certificate of Attendance — issued to every participant who attends the live session

  • 3 contact hours for Part 1 — completing both parts of the series brings your total to 6

  • Session recording — shared with all participants for their own use only; no reproduction permitted

Continuing education requirements vary by state and licensing board. Participants who wish to claim hours toward licensure renewal should confirm with their own board whether independently provided training is accepted.

EVENT INFORMATION

Part 1 takes place live online on Friday, August 14, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST. The session is recorded, and the recording is shared with every participant for their own use — so if you need to step away, you won't miss anything. Join us.

PRICING & POLICIES

  • Part 1 Registration: $129 — includes the 3-hour live training, the session recording, and a Certificate of Attendance (3 contact hours)

  • Part 2: completes the Foundations series. Dates will be announced — Part 1 participants can add Part 2 for $70, the full two-part series for $199

  • Refund Policy: Full refund for cancellations made on or before 14 days before the event (July 31, 2026)

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Contact Information
Email: [email protected]

Continuing education requirements vary by state and licensing board. Participants who wish to claim hours toward licensure renewal should confirm with their own board whether independently provided training is accepted.

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