Solution Focused Brief Therapy

I believe that every client has what it takes to heal. You made it this far and can achieve your goals even if you have lost your way. You are the only one who can do the healing and I can guide you in that process. You are incredible.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach that incorporates positive principles, which help you change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In therapy, we will focus briefly on your situation; but stress and highlight the critical answers. Therefore, we won't spend session after session on the problems but instead, create tools for your issues and concerns to bring relief.

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.

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.

Brief Therapy focuses on a specific present day problem and works on creating direct interventions to help create direct resolution.

What is the problem? How is it a problem? What have you been trying to do to solve it? Imagine if the problem was already solved, what is the first thing that you would notice? These questions form the basis of the solution-focused brief therapy model. The art is in how the questions are asked. Instead feeling like an interview, I ask them in the form of a conversation. It is through this conversation that I will pull on your inner resources for change.

This approach comes from a place of curiosity and focuses on your best hopes for therapy. I pose questions that serve as invitations. Even if you don't answer out loud, some helpful shift has occurred within you because of the question I asked. I find this approach helpful with more concrete thinking couples. You can expect me to ask about what was right between you in the beginning and what your life was like before or without the problem. We work on creating your preferred future.

Having a hard time deciding if it's time to move mom into memory care? Let alone which one? I have so many resources, checklists, information, and strategies to help you. Stuck on trying to decide if you want resuscitation and need to complete your advanced directive before an upcoming surgery? Let's talk about the pros and cons. Therapy doesn't have to go on and on and on. Sometimes we can together identify exactly what you need and do that. You are always welcome to come back as needed.

I am committed to helping clients improve their well being and gain self knowledge and awareness in order to create meaningful, joyful, lives. Each person's therapy is individualized collaborative and strength based.

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.

Solution focused therapy are techniques to find the exception to the rule. I lean on the strength Of you to identify how you’ve solved problems or struggles in the past. I call upon your resilience to better understand the ways you cope.

It can often be helpful to explore past wounds that have left their scars as far back as our childhoods. However, sometimes the goal of therapy is to solve an immediate problem. If you prefer, I can work with you in a brief, solution-focused approach that gathers your strengths to overcome obstacles in your life.

I have been practicing this technique since 2010 and continue to attend ongoing trainings regarding this approach to ensure my skills remain sharp and effective.

SFBT helps clients identify their strengths and envision solutions rather than dwelling on problems. Our sessions will involve highlighting your past successes and setting small, achievable goals, to help you build confidence and momentum for positive change. Focusing on times you’ve succeeded, even when things felt tough, will help you recover your independence and reconnect with your optimism for better days ahead.

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.

SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.

Feeling empowered to solve your problems is one of the key benefits of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. I have experience offering this treatment intervention in individual therapy sessions.