ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that Single-Session Therapy (SST) is a fusion of client and therapist factors, and while the therapist helping the client to use extant strengths which is a key idea. There is nothing to stop the therapist offering the client something new so long as this is done in a way that empowers rather than disempowers the client. The chapter discusses the idea that SST is a fusion between what clients bring to the process and what therapists bring to the process. Part of the therapist’s SST mindset is the view that all clients have internal strengths that they have either overlooked or lost touch with, which potentially they can bring to the SST process. When people are connected to their values, that is, their judgments of what is important to them in their lives, then this can have a profound effect on what they can achieve from SST.
