Solution-focused brief therapy avoids lengthy discussions about problems and instead focuses conversations on identifying solutions. Therapists help clients recognize positive behaviors, thoughts, and periods of calm that contribute to solutions or goal achievement. This encourages clients to build on their own experiences and strengths to develop solutions rather than relying on externally-prescribed behaviors. Lisa Ann Sisson utilizes solution-focused brief therapy among other approaches in her private practice.

1. Lisa Ann Sisson Explains Solution-
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• Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) avoids endless
discussion and analysis of client problems and instead
redirects that energy into the discussion of solutions.
• For instance, even clients with severe or chronic challenges
undergo periods of relative calm.

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• Using SFBT, professionals help clients understand the positive
factors, behaviors, and patterns of thought that give rise to
these periods of calm.
• In this way, clients begin to notice their positive behaviors and
build those behaviors toward a solution to the problem at hand
or the attainment of a desired goal.

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• In turn, this encourages a more hopeful and confident outlook
for clients who respond well to SFBT.
• Rather than applying a set of solutions devised by someone
else, this method’s solutions spring from the client’s own
experience, meaning he or she need not learn a whole new set
of behaviors.

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• A Marriage and Family Therapist, Lisa Ann Sisson uses
solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,
and Bowen’s family systems theory to assist clients at her
private practice in Agoura, California.

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• A Marriage and Family Therapist, Lisa Ann Sisson uses
solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,
and Bowen’s family systems theory to assist clients at her
private practice in Agoura, California.