Special Section: Walk-In Single Session Therapy

… most therapy is de facto brief, by default or design, meaning a few sessions, weeks to months. As Budman and Gurman (1988) and others (Bloom, 1992; Garfield, 1986; Koss & Butcher, 1986; Messer & Warren, 1995) have noted, numerous studies have reported the average length of treatment to be three to eight sessions. The modal or most common length of treatment is actually only one session. Even with this “briefest of brief” duration, many successful outcomes are reported (Bloom, 1992; Hoyt, 1994, 2000; Hoyt, et al., 1992; Rosenbaum, et al., 1990; Slive, et al., 2009; Talmon, 1990, 1993). (Hoyt, 2009)