Solution-focused brief therapy

You walked into a solution-focused brief therapy class, and this completely changed your trajectory in some way.

You work in a solution-focused way, I suppose.

I was curious to ask, what would you say the essence of the solution focus is? What's the essence?

That's a very big question.

I love it.

So instead of assuming internal psychological process, we will be looking at interactional social construction of how people make meaning together, for example.

So that's the process.

Now, Solution Focus is a misleading name because people are like, oh, yeah, we focus on solutions.

And let's say our client says, every time my wife criticizes me, I shut down.

Now a therapist with solution-focused therapy might say something like, every time? Well, okay, almost every time.

All right, tell me about a time you didn't shut down.

And now just like that, we're doing something completely different.