Single Session Narrative Therapy Study

Single-session interventions are designed to address barriers to engaging in care and address the issues of long waitlists and limited provider availability. Offering a single session intervention soon after a referral is made is a strategy on a stepped-care continuum model that has been found to be an effective approach to manage population mental health needs. This study aims to 1) pre-pilot a single-session narrative therapy intervention with patients currently on the waitlist for psychotherapy services at an HIV primary care clinic to evaluate the acceptability of this treatment option for patients and the feasibility of proposed data collection followed by 2) a 6-month pilot study of the same intervention to evaluate intervention acceptability, fit, and impact on service and clinical outcomes. At the end of this study, patient and provider-level data on the utility of integrating a single-session psychotherapy service as part of the continuum of behavioral health services in an integrated care setting will be obtained, which the investigators can utilize to design a larger implementation-effectiveness trial.