Solution Focused Brief Therapy

I trained extensively in solution focused brief therapy and bring the skills and positive strengths based nature of this treatment modality to each of my clients.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a commonly used and effective treatment to help clients struggling with stress and more serious mental health issues. It is a collaborative, strength-based, goal-directed, present and future-oriented, and inclusive approach. In SFBT, you identify your goals for therapy, focus on exceptions and coping strategies/solutions to the problem, and move forward one step at a time on your path to achieving them.

This approach focuses on solutions that point out what is working and possible areas where things could be done differently to help. With this approach, we do not concentrate or spend sessions discussing what brought you in, but rather what life will be like for you once therapy has worked for you.

It's hard to see clear when we strong emotions but there is always a solution and always a path. Think of me as your knowledgable and objective teammate. Together we will figure out how to get you for where you are to where you want to be.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) concentrates on finding solutions in the present time and exploring one’s hope for the future to find quicker resolution of one’s problems. This method takes the approach that you know what you need to do to improve your own life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is another "post-modern" approach. The core insight is simple, though: People have more control over what they already know how to do and have found valuable to them. SFBT connects people with the solutions they already have in hand but may not be using in other areas of their life. We visualize concrete positive outcomes you want, mine past successes for clues, identify the most plausible and actionable solutions, and apply what we learn.

This is a forward-looking, goal-oriented approach. By focusing on clients' strengths and resources, SFBT fosters empowerment and encourages them to envision their desired future. Collaboratively developing practical steps helps clients feel more engaged and motivated in their journey. Additionally, examining problematic situations in relationships can be an effective tool. It allows clients to identify specific areas for improvement and solutions vs dwelling on the past issues.

I believe that it is important to work through identification of an issue and a solution that produces the quickest result in the safest way.

A basic tenant of SFBT is figuring out what works and doing more of it. It utilizes optimism, logic facts and actions to help us navigate through challenges. SFBT emphasizes that people already possess the resources they need to change; we just need to get back in contact with them.

I am SFBT Certified and am unique in applying this strategy to my work with couples.

I have graduate-level education in SFBT, and have utilized techniques associated with this modality throughout my professional career.

I try to get a future picture of life without the problem or when you are handling it better. Trying to identify the actions that a person does during non problematic times are also identified.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.

In London, she participated in an intensive Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy training at the Brief Institute.

Working with client on coming up with solutions.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is based on a simple insight about making positive change. Easy mode: Do what you already know how to do to reach an outcome you have clearly defined. Hard mode: Learn new skills and expectations for a problem you don't understand. SFBT chooses therapy easy mode because life is hard enough. We visualize concrete positive outcomes you want, mine past successes for clues, identify the most plausible and actionable solutions, and apply what we learn. Repeat.