ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses those features that comprise the single-session mindset and contrast them, whenever possible, with their conventional clinical mindset counterparts. One of the most important elements of the single-session mindset pertains to how practitioners, as a Single-Session Integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (SSI-CBT) therapist, think about time concerning their work. Walk-in single-session therapists have much to teach therapists who offer SSI-CBT by scheduled appointment. Like other SST therapists, as an SSI-CBT therapist, practitioners approach the session they will have with the client knowing that it could be the only session their will have. From a conventional clinical perspective, a CBT therapist would approach the first session expecting it to be the first of a series of sessions. Like other SST therapists, when bringing a single-session mindset to the work, practitioners place the client at the centre of the therapeutic process as an SSI-CBT practitioner.
