Brief Therapy Unit

                                                          Coordinator – Moti Kellner, M.S.W.

Our Solution Focused Brief Therapy Unit has been working under the guidance of staff therapist Moti Kellner.  “Therapists as well as their clients often make the assumption that a complicated problem needs a complicated solution and that its duration is directly related to its severity and intractability….  But brief therapists think differently.  No matter how complicated the description of the problem or the (apparent) duration, they believe that a small and simple difference that is noticed will often lead to unpredictably large changes. …A simple difference, often just some doubt, can be enough to begin changing a life long pattern or way of thinking.”(de Shazer, Networker 9-10/1987)  Given this approach, the Brief Therapy Unit invests much time and effort in identifying ways of talking with clients that encourage them in creating their own solutions. The Brief Therapy Unit was created in 1996.  Its staff consists of Moti Kellner and Miriam Weinberger-Timsit.