Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy uses the most efficient methods available for helping clients to overcome specific well-defined problems such as fear and anxiety, depression, excessive anger, and compulsions.
The usual approach is first to teach clients how to gain control of their own emotional arousal. Once the client is able to calm their own emotions, they are immediately better able to think clearly, and to consider possible solutions to whatever issues have distressed them.
Typically I find that if a problem is serious enough to need therapy, there is usually a "vicious circle" involved- that is, a network of problems feeding into one another. By analysing these networks, I can suggest the easiest and simplest ways in which the "vicious circle" can be broken.
I work on the assumption that the human mind is basically healthy, and has a natural tendency towards health, just as a plant has a natural tendency to grow up towards the light. Problems arise when the natural healthy tendencies of the mind are obstructed or distorted in some way. Once these obstructions are removed, the client can continue to develop without further assistance from a therapist.
Solution-focused Brief Therapy typically takes six sessions or less to achieve its original objectives.