Solution Focused Therapy was developed in the late 1970’s by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and their contemporaries at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee. Solution focused therapy appeared as an abrupt parting from the brief therapy practice in which it began. Therapist theorized that difficulties seemed to arise when clients reacted to natural life difficulties in behaviors which made them poorer, which in turn made daily life experiences appear to be even more difficult. Therapists were tasked with helping clients discover the things that were not working and assist them with finding new approaches and solutions. Steve de Shazer, Insoo Berg, and their contemporaries, were influenced by way of the Mental Research Institute model
