SFBT skips the long history-taking. It asks where you want to go, what you are already doing that works, and how to do more of it. Most courses are 3–8 sessions.
What SFBT helps with
- Stuck life situations
- Workplace stress
- Couples & family disputes
- Mild–moderate depression
- Goal setting
- Coaching contexts
How SFBT works
- 1Define the preferred future in concrete behavioural terms — the 'miracle' description.
- 2Find recent exceptions when the problem was less severe and study what was different.
- 3Use scaling (0–10) to make tiny progress visible and protect it.
- 4Build the smallest next step you would notice working before the next session.
Core techniques
- The miracle question
- Exception finding
- Scaling questions
- Coping questions
- Compliments & affirmations
- Pre-session change
SFBT FAQs
Is SFBT really enough on its own?
For many goal-shaped problems — career stuckness, parenting friction, mild–moderate mood issues — yes. For severe trauma or complex personality patterns, a deeper modality is usually a better fit.
How is SFBT different from coaching?
Solution-focused coaching grew directly out of SFBT, so the techniques overlap heavily. SFBT is delivered by clinicians and stays inside clinical scope; coaching does not.
Start SFBT today — three ways
- · Free 24×7 AI Psychologist — practise SFBT techniques anonymously, in 100+ languages.
- · SFBT Mastery in 30 Days — for clinicians, counsellors and trainees, with AI mock-client sessions and a capstone certificate.
- · Book Dr. Nitnem Singh Sodhi for an online or in-person consult at Apollo Clinics, Lucknow / Gorakhpur.