This article describes the use of solution-focused and narrative family therapy techniques with a woman and her young children who were suffering from family violence, poverty, and disability. Over the course of 17 sessions, the therapist emphasized the mothers strengths, successful experiences, and problem-solving ability, and externalized her problems. By the end, tension between the mother and daughter had improved, and the mother changed from feeling like a victim, powerless to stop her husbands violence, to a positive mother who could take good care of her children and effectively respond to the violence. As a result, the frequency and the intensity of the violence diminished. The success of the case underscores the effectiveness of non-pathologizing, strength-based approaches such as solution-focused and narrative family therapy, even with families who are struggling with such complicated problems as poverty, violence, alcoholism, and disability.