Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy: Working with Emotions and the Therapeutic Relationship

Highly recommended! Lipchik has an understanding of Solution-Focused Therapy that soars above that of most contemporary writers. She somehow manages to rise above the minutiae of therapeutic "tricks" while avoiding the trap of getting herself and her readers lost in dense theoretical analyses. As a therapist, I keep this book within arms' length always, and consult it frequently. Amazingly, I never put the book down without having experienced some sort of epiphany -- sometimes small and sometimes of great importance. My only wish is that I had a dozen more books as helpful as this one. David L. Ransen, Ph.D. [...]

Used this book as a supplemental text for a Solution Focused Brief Therapy class and I found it very useful.