Solution-Focused Practice Taster

Naomi Whitehead

Naomi Whitehead (she/her) is a Solution-Focused practitioner accredited by the International Alliance of Solution-Focused Training Institutes. Naomi works online, in Sheffield, across the UK, and internationally, as a Solution-Focused coach, therapist and trainer.

Naomi’s background is in working with and coordinating services for adults facing multiple and complex challenges. This includes people who have experienced homelessness, the criminal justice system and substance misuse. Managing voluntary sector projects informs the structured yet playful, curious, and deeply respectful stance she brings to all her work.

Naomi discovered the Solution-Focused approach in 2003 and was inspired by its potential three years later when volunteering in young people’s prisons in Bolivia, South America. In 2015 She became a freelance practitioner. Naomi works in trauma therapy, executive and young women’s coaching, and reflective practice facilitation. She also delivers international training around current approaches and innovations. Naomi Whitehead represents the UK on the European Brief Therapy Association (EBTA) and is a full member of UKASFP and SFiO.

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Tara Gretton

Solution-Focused Practice Consultant

Tara Gretton (she/her) has a background in social work and was introduced to the Solution-Focused approach in 2002. Prior to that, Tara was an aspiring actor working in Fringe theatre in Dublin. Tara worked with adults with learning difficulties until 2010 and then made the transition to Children’s Services in Bath. She worked in a social work team that used Solution-Focused Practice with adolescents and their families to prevent family breakdown and reduce the number of young people coming into care.

Tara has extensive experience in using the Solution-Focused approach with young people and their families. Since becoming a freelance Solution-Focused practitioner in 2014, Tara now works in many schools in her local area as a freelance Solution-Focused practitioner carrying out 1:1 work and group work with children and young people.

Tara is also a Solution-Focused consultant to schools and trains all staff within schools in the Solution-Focused approach. Tara has recently worked with a school that now calls itself a Solution-Focused school.

Tara Gretton runs an international Solution-Focused school network with a German colleague and delivers workshops internationally. Tara also runs a private practice from her family home in Bath.

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