What Is Solution-Focused Therapy?
Traditional psychotherapy methods often involve exploration of past issues and relationships as well as current situations, and evolve slowly towards an often undefined goal. Solution-focused therapy, also called solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), is a streamlined form of psychotherapy that focuses on current problems and solutions. This type of therapy tends to be brief, and can even conclude within three to six sessions. Conventional psychotherapies may take a variety of forms, depending on the individual therapist’s style. Central to the process, in many cases, is an in-depth examination of the past, analysis, diagnosis, and treatment. Often the term “counseling” is used interchangeably with psychotherapy.
