Solution-focused counseling is a brief, goal-oriented counseling approach that emphasizes solutions rather than problems. It focuses on the client’s desired future, existing strengths, resources, abilities, and previous successes. Instead of spending extensive time exploring the causes, history, or details of a problem, the counselor helps the client identify what they want to change and discover practical ways to achieve that change. The approach is closely associated with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and is based on the belief that clients possess useful resources for dealing with their difficulties. The central meaning of solution-focused counseling is that counseling should help clients move from their current problematic situation toward a preferred future. The counselor does not assume the role of an expert who provides direct solutions. Rather, the counselor collaborates with the client and asks purposeful questions that help the client recognize possibilities and develop achievable goals. Attention is given to exceptions, or occasions when the problem is absent or less severe, because these situations can reveal strategies that the client can repeat in the future. Several important