Steve de Shazer (June 25, 1940, Milwaukee – September 11, 2005, Vienna) was a psychotherapist, author, and developer and pioneer of solution focused brief therapy.
In 1978, he founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Insoo Kim Berg.
[3] In 1978, de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg co-founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee.
[5][6] BFTC served as a research center to study, develop, and test techniques of psychotherapy to find those that are most efficient and effective with clients.
[8] Alongside the popular development of the practical application of solution-focused therapy, its theoretic foundation has been the topic of research in an academic context.