Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Articles on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): building on your strengths and preferred future to create change.

Unlock Your Potential with Personal Growth Counselling

Ruku I'Anson / November 18, 2025

This is the first in a series focussed around goal setting, planning, maintenance/achievement with the view to living a life that embodies wellness and success. Using contemporary and holistic methods to connect real everyday needs with our inner-self, we are better able to achieve our goals, support our families and the life we want.

Calm room with a whiteboard listing strengths, solutions and goals

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

Hamish Webb / September 30, 2024

Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) was developed in the 1980s by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg.

The approach, as the name suggests, emphasises solutions, not problems. In this article, I discuss the 12 core assumptions that SFT makes and cover the techniques involved.