Dr Dean-David Holyoake
Founder and Consultant
Dean-David Holyoake has worked in a variety of settings with mentally ill young people and their families. Having trained in various psychotherapeutic approaches, Dean specialised in the solution focused approach for the past 25 years. Since receiving his PhD over 20 years ago from Central University, he has lectured and presented at conferences (both UK and Internationally), published widely in the speciality and supervised hundreds of postgraduate students. He worked for ten years as the course and year lead in the MA Solution Focused Brief Therapy at the University of Birmingham. Dean is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and continues his ethnographic research into all things solution focused.
Dr Anita Z Goldschmied
Policy and Research
Anita Z Goldschmied is a dually qualified learning disability nurse and social worker trained at Sheffield Hallam University. Anita has extensive experience using solution focused approaches in the business, public, health and social care sectors. Before entering academia, Anita has spent 15 years in various business and not for profit organisations including running her own company. She has a Master and a PhD in Contemporary Research and Practice. In her doctoral work, Anita has developed a novel approach, 6D solution focused practice to explore mundane and ordinary events. As a senior lecturer and researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, Anita continues to evolve and apply 6D approach to everyday issues, currently to the transformational dynamics of JOY.
SF Practice
Solution Focused Life is the trademark of our work connected to real life events as we believe life and research happen in the streets, pubs and homes, and not in laboratories and the rooms of the clinicians.
We believe in pragmatism and that there is a solution for everything. Our work put the client at the centre. We trust they know their life better than anyone else. And they are the best to find the solution. Our aim is to provide a range of tools that clients can continue to sharpen to suit their needs and help achieve the goals they have.
Whether you need direction, are struggling with academic work or are looking for the next challenge, solution focused life has something to offer.
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