ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that we can change quickly if the conditions are right for it to happen. It discusses the importance of privileging practitioners' client’s viewpoint in single-session integrated cognitive behaviour therapy (SSI-CBT). While such change rarely happens within an SSI-CBT context, it demonstrates our capability as humans to make profound changes quickly. Before Vera made a very rapid change after her company announced the change of their office suite, practitioners might be forgiven for thinking that she was not capable of helping herself in a short space of time with her elevator problem. However, it transpired that Vera did have that capability but only decided to use it under a particular set of circumstances. Before the office suite move, Vera claimed that she wanted to tackle her elevator phobia, but her actions belied her words. Some might say that before she learned of the office move, Vera lacked sufficient motivation to change.
