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Why become a single session therapist?

As already mentioned in the previous article the Italian Center for Single Session therapy was born mainly with the aim of training psychologists and psychotherapists in the method of Single Session Therapy and more generally with the intention of providing tools of innovative intervention close to people’s requests.

The objective of today’s article will, in fact, be to illustrate the new world trends in terms of needs , costs and interventions in the field of mental health and the professional challenges that the psychologist will have to face, finally answering the precise question that many psychologists in these years have placed us during the workshops , namely “Why become a single session therapist?”

How to introduce a single session therapy

Imagine that you are a Walk-In therapist offering a Single Session Therapy service without an appointment . Surely you will find yourself faced with the possibility of welcoming people who will turn to you for advice, expecting to solve their problem or achieve their goal in the shortest possible time.

At this point it will be of fundamental importance to set up the interview in such a way that the psychologist and the client can immediately make the most of the time available to them.

The aim of this article, therefore, will be to focus on the way to introduce Single Session Therapy and to maximize the counseling session from the very first moment .

How to conduct a SST: the Canadian – Texan model

The Canadian-Texan Model is represented by the work of Arnold Slive and Monte Bobele : the first launched the Eastside Family Center in Calgary (Canada), integrating the logic of TSS into a walk-in service , and the second created a similar service at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio (Texas), after a meeting with Slive.

A Single Session Therapy Service for couples: Interview with Martin Soderquist

How does Single Session Therapy work with couples?

Some time ago we translated an article by Martin Soderquist , director of a counseling center for couples in Sweden and author of a chapter on the subject in the book Single-session therapy by walk-in or appointment (Hoyt et al. , 2018).

The very interesting article presented the project and research data collected by the group headed by Soderquist .

The topic is very interesting, because it shows a very useful declination of TSS: work with couples, in fact. In particular, then, it shows how a counseling center for couples can organize itself around the idea of Single Session Therapy – and how this is greatly appreciated.

So we decided to have a chat with Soderquist , interviewing him to ask him to tell us more about his experience. The result is an interesting interview of about twenty minutes , which we propose below.

Good vision!

Flavio Cannistrà
Psychologist, Psychotherapist
Founder of the Italian Center
for Single Session Therapy

How to attract patients with Single Session Therapy

How to attract patients with Single Session Therapy

In this article we will see how to attract patients to your office or to the facility that hosts us through the use of TSS.

For many therapists, especially beginners, clinical activity can be difficult , to the point of not guaranteeing sufficient income for their economic subsistence. Not infrequently the psychotherapist (even an expert) is “forced” to integrate with other activities, sometimes quite distant from the area in question.

The Single Session for transgender and gender variant children and teenagers

As awareness of gender diversity increases, the number of children and adolescents presenting to gender variance services in Australia and overseas increases (Chen et al., 2016; Wren et al., 2016), with a consequent increase in waiting times to access the necessary assessment for medical transition paths (hormonal and / or surgical therapy).

Innovative approaches are needed to reduce waiting times, enable timely clinical support and provide education to patients and their families.

A SST service for families for ludopathy

In this article we present a service created in Australia by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation that deals with the intervention of people with gambling addiction problems .

The goal is to find out how the Single Session Therapy method is applied in the context of counseling services for people with gambling problems and in particular for their families, offered by the foundation in collaboration with the Bouverie Center.

Walkin-in services vs traditional approaches: what are the benefits

As already written in other articles all over the world, walk-in services are becoming more and more popular .

The logic that characterizes walk-in services, as anticipated in a previous article, can be summarized in 3 points:

receive a visit without an appointment , simply by entering the Center, clinical study or web page;
receive the service usually in a short time (not waiting hours);
cheapness , and in some cases free of charge, of the services

SST for people already included in a course

As already discussed above, the therapist who wants to start using the Single Session Therapy method in his professional activity will not necessarily have to change his therapeutic approach or learn a new one, just as he will not have to abandon the use of techniques. consolidated or even change their professional structure.

In this regard, we have already suggested some ways through which the therapist can experiment with the application of TSS , using it as an alternative to the free interview , as a second consultation or as an online intervention .

Reduce waiting list with Single Session Therapy

Carlo, not his real name, contacts us about a problem: he absolutely has to solve his panic attacks. He has a family, children, and the situation has become serious: he no longer drives due to anxiety and his wife does not have a driving license, so he had to take sick leave from work (which is more than 70 kilometers from his home).