Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Solution Focused Therapy emphasizes your strengths and resources as well as specific goals for therapy. We will work collaboratively to develop your strengths and sources of joy, utilize your strengths, and call on your sources of support to achieve your specific goals.

SFBT focuses on positive solutions for issues that contribute to anxiety and depression making daily life a struggle.

Especially helpful when the problem defies easy definition or resolution.

Another theory that I have studied in the course of my graduate work. I also work to active incorporate this theory into my practice with my clients by focusing on solutions and seeking to highlight the strengths and positive attributes of my clients.

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

I have experience utilizing this treatment approach with adolescents and adults. I appreciate the use of this approach as therapy is often short term for a variety of reasons. This approach offers an opportunity to focus on the reason a client was initially motivated to come to therapy and acknowledge the barriers they have encountered as well as success they have had.

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 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.

Solution-focused narrative therapy is a modality that believes that you, the client, know your strengths and resilience. You've just lost sight of them and have become saturated in a problem-focused narrative or story. Often we begin to feel that we are the problem! However, with SFNT, we will help you put on a new pair of glasses that will not only address the issues but help you derive a new story that focuses on your strengths and your ability to cope and thrive.

We don’t focus on the problems, rather we stick to finding the solutions to them. The future is our focus and it is my goal to help you envision one where your challenges are resolved. We work on making achievable goals and develop the steps together in order to reach that goal. All of this in a short amount of sessions necessary as it’s my hope that by the end we will develop the tools necessary for you to carry out any future solutions on your own.

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.

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.

Hi! We all want solutions, right? I like to make sure that we are on the right track by testing options for new patterns and routines. We keep what works and ditch the rest. Building a new lifestyle is hard. It's so easy to just fall back into old patterns. Step by step we can integrate our behaviors into a whole new way of being if we just practice what works.

We know what we know… well, most of the time. But translating knowledge into action for change is something else. Sure, we will talk about your issues, but talk only goes so far. We will work on actionable processes to help you get past thoughts, behaviors and feelings that contribute to anxiety, depression, PTSD, BiPolar Disorder, and chronic debilitating daily stress. A change in thoughts, brings about change in feelings and results in changed behavior.