Solution Focused Therapy
Solution focused therapy 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 the problems. Many times, what we focus on tends to get bigger. Solution focused therapy is a positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
How does it work?
Solution focused therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. SFT begins first by generating a detailed description of how life will be different when the problem is gone or the situation is improved. Then your therapist and you will carefully search through your life experience and behavioral repertoire to discover the necessary resources needed to co-construct a practical and sustainable solution that can easily be implemented. This can look like exploring times when you have successfully coped with or addressed previous difficulties and challenges.
