Adam Froerer, PhD, LMFT

Adam Froerer, Ph.D., LMFT is the Director of Research and Training for the Solution Focused Universe (SFU). Adam previously worked for 11 years as a university professor, teaching and training students to be Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Psychologists. After leaving academia, Adam shifted his focus to teaching and training professionals from around the world on how to study and master Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Adam's research has focused on how change happens in therapeutic conversations and on broadening the evidence-base of SFBT. Adam has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and is the first-editor of “Solution Focused Brief Therapy With Client’s Managing Trauma,” a book published by Oxford University Press. Adam's most important roles are being a husband to Becca, and a father to three wonderful kids.

Adam’s courses

Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Cultural Humility

In this course, we explore cultural humility practices in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Dr. Adam Froerer, LMFT and Cecil Walker, LMFT give us actionable steps to integrating these two practices in our work with clients. In particular, they discuss ways clinicians can consider large social contexts in their work, while ‘making themselves small’ in pursuit of building therapeutic relationships that foster change.

On demand

2 credits

Examining White Privilege in Pursuit of Cultural Humility

Conversations about racial privilege are integral to developing a clinical practice of cultural humility. This course talks about the intention of acknowledging this privilege daily in order to ignite change. We will learn how to address privilege and talk about it in a clinical setting as well as model for our supervisees.

On demand

1.5 credits

Cultural Humility & Social Justice in Clinical Practice

In this course we discuss the values embedded in using a framework of cultural humility in mental health clinical practices. We explore the value of leading with curiosity and the benefits of ‘not knowing’. This conversation helps to make sense of terms, along with practice of cultural humility that lead to social justice through mental healthcare.

On demand

1.5 credits