Solution Focused Brief Therapy

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

Focused on finding practical solutions, I have found that this approach empowers clients to envision their desired future and take actionable steps toward their goals. Together, we create concrete, achievable strategies tailored to their needs. Using visuals for clarity, I ensure these strategies are accessible and effective, helping clients confidently move toward their desired outcomes.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a therapeutic modality that seeks to internalize solution-based thinking regarding the problems we face currently in our lives. SFBT utilizes a variety of tools to help individuals call upon strengths and useful skills used in the past and present to overcome challenges.

Solution Focused Therapy is similar to Reality Therapy, and one that I love to use for individuals who are utilizing therapy on a short term basis. For example, people who are only provided a few sessions through their insurance plan. This therapy focuses more on the future than the past and reminds one that they have control over their actions, thoughts, and reactions. I have used this throughout my career in a short term hospital setting and with clients who have limited insurance.

Solution-focused therapy is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients' responses to a series of precisely constructed questions.

I am often solution focused and direct.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) in collaboration with their colleagues at the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center beginning in the late 1970s. As the name suggests, SFBT is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy.

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.

I practice Solution Focused Therapy by providing structure; developing specific and attainable goals, bridging from previous sessions, setting agenda's together, assigning HW, and reviewing progress along the way.

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

Solution Focus Brief Therapy or SFBT is a 'solution' focused therapy instead of 'problem focused'. This therapy modality has proven to provide positive results with healthier emotional and behavioral responses by focusing on what is going well in your life. I typically begin with CBT and move to SFBT after current problems have been addressed. This is a perfect approach towards the end of therapy for greater success in positive outcomes moving forward.

I integrate SFBT by focusing on what’s already within you, helping you shift from feeling stuck to finding what’s possible. We won’t get lost in the past, but instead, we’ll look at your strengths, resources, and small victories to build momentum for change. Together, we’ll create a roadmap to help you move toward the life you want—focusing on the practical steps you can take right now to start healing, creating healthier relationships, and breaking free from old patterns.

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.

At Rising Perspective Counseling, we offer Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help you discover practical strategies and move toward your goals. Whether you work with our experienced licensed professionals (self-pay/insurance) or our affordable student interns ($35/session), we focus on your strengths, solutions, and what’s working—so you can take small, meaningful steps toward positive change. Your goals. Your progress. Your path forward. Let’s find what works for you. ✨

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.

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.

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.

Together, we will explore potential solutions to your problems. All potential solutions that I discuss with you will be evidenced based. This means that various scientific studies on the “solution” have taken place making it scientifically proven to work for most people. If whatever we come up with doesn’t work for you, we’ll discuss other potential evidence based solutions so that you have an array of coping skills you can use to deal with life’s stressors.