Joel Simon LCSW, ACSW, BCD Joel Simon, LCSW, ACSW, BCD has over 30 years’ experience as a therapist, clinical program supervisor, presenter and trainer. For the past 17 years, he has practiced and taught solution-focused brief therapy. Joel completed advanced training and training of trainers at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with the co-developers of the approach, Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer.