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.

In my current position outside of private practice, I use SFBT as the treatment modality as the setting I work in allows only up to eight sessions. This has allowed my clients and I to create short-term attainable goals that have long-term implicatations as to how they percieve and interact with the world around them.

Places the focus of treatment on present & future circumstances and goals. Aims to identify tools for more immediate improvement in handling emotions & coping with obstacles. Problem solving perspective and techniques are utilized when applicable.

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 help clients identify their strengths and find solutions.

I am often solution focused and direct.

Using SFBT techniques I help client's navigate through life's transitions and struggles and help highlight areas in their life where something IS going right to help increase the opportunities for even more positive outcomes.

I will lend my support and begin where you want to start. Together, we will Discover your strengths, resources and what is truly important to you. I will help you get Clarity on what you need and want for acceptance and change to happen. I take a collaborative approach in creating your goals and how you can overcome any obstacles. You might feel stuck. I can help you think outside the box and integrate your resilience and wisdom with new ways and directions to live out your best life.

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.

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.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a goal-oriented, strengths-based approach that focuses on identifying and amplifying clients' existing resources and abilities to create positive change

Do you have big feelings that make it difficult for you to handle stress? Would you like to feel more trust with yourself and others, and less stuck? Solution Focused Brief treatment allows for a dynamic model of change where you are in control and are empowered.

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.

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a future-oriented, goal-directed approach to solving human problems of living. The focus is on the client's health rather than the problem, on strengths rather than weaknesses or deficits, and on skills, resources, and coping abilities that would help in reaching future goals

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is one of the most widely used therapeutic treatments. Unlike traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyze problems, pathology, and past life events, SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future in order to find a quick and lasting resolution of one’s problems. I will help you explore solutions through the resources you already have.

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.

My approach focuses on client strengths as I assist clients with utilizing these strengths to overcome problems. I was trained in systems theory and utilized SFBT in my residencies and throughout my career. I also received extensive training in this model while obtaining the Master's degree in marriage and family therapy.