ABSTRACT
When the therapist incorporates a pre-session contact into their way of practising Single-Session Therapy (SST), the gap between the pre-session contact and the face-to-face session should be very small. Given their perspective on time, SST therapists tend to see the period between the pre-session contact and the face-to-face session as time to be used effectively. As such, the therapist may suggest that the person does something between these two points of contact. Moshe Talmon was initially wary of making suggestions to his clients over the phone in his pre-session contacts for fear of making mistakes. As he gained confidence and experience as an SST therapist, he began to offer suggestions that he term 'notice what you would like to happen' suggestions. Such a suggestion communicates a number of things: The client can spend the time between the pre-session contact and the session in a way that facilitates change. The focus is on the transition from the present to the future.
