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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Help clients move forward - by focusing on what’s already working.

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About Your Online Training Course

Start date
Starts 03 November 2026
Length
8 Hours | 12 months access
Who this course is for
For Mental Health & Health Professionals, Coaches
Accreditation
8 CE/CME CreditsSee all accreditation details

Help your clients move beyond problems and towards meaningful change. This engaging and practical online course brings Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to life through expert teaching, detailed therapy demonstrations, plus simple yet powerful techniques you can apply straight away.

Practical, hopeful and deeply respectful of the client’s own expertise, SFBT can transform the way you approach therapeutic conversations. You’ll discover how to use a focused, collaborative approach that shifts the emphasis from analyzing problems to building solutions, helping clients explore what’s already working, set clear goals, and move toward a preferred future.

Whether you use SFBT as a complete therapeutic approach or integrate it into your existing practice, you’ll develop practical ways to make sessions more focused, purposeful, and collaborative.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Adopt a solution-focused mindset and use language intentionally to build hope, agency, and possibility.

  • Structure purposeful SFBT sessions, from getting to know the client and developing meaningful goals through to identifying next steps and ending therapy.

  • Use core SFBT techniques with confidence, including the Miracle Question, scaling, exception, coping, relationship, and future-oriented questions.

  • Adapt SFBT to different clients and contexts, including unclear or unrealistic goals, clients who feel stuck, and those who are mandated to attend therapy.

  • Integrate SFBT into your own practice, whether as a complete approach or alongside other ways of working.

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Learn From Leading Experts in SFBT

You’ll be learning from Dr. Johnny Kim, Dr. Stephen Langer and Dr. Cynthia Franklin, some of the most widely published authors in the field of SFBT, bringing together extensive expertise in research, clinical practice and professional training.

  • Johnny Kim, PhD, LCSW -  is a professor at the University of Denver and a leading educator in SFBT. He has worked extensively with youth, schools, and families and is a key contributor to the latest SFBT treatment manual.

  • Stephen Langer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Northwest Brief Therapy Training Center, where he has provided training, consultation and supervision in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for more than 30 years. His work spans clinical practice and the training of professionals across a wide range of settings and client populations.

  • Cynthia Franklin, PhD, LCSW - is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin and author of hundreds of studies on SFBT. Her work has shaped the application of SFBT in integrated care, education, and mental health systems, and she has contributed to recent advances in applying SFBT with neurodiverse clients, including autistic adults.

Together, they bring deep expertise, real-world experience, and a strong commitment to evidence-based practice, offering you clear guidance grounded in decades of clinical application and research.

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Using SFBT in Clinical Practice

SFBT gives clinicians a practical framework for supporting change across a wide range of clients and settings. Designed for social workers, counsellors, psychologists, therapists, and other helping professionals at all levels of experience, this course takes you from the foundations of solution-focused practice through to the subtle conversational techniques that make it so powerful. 
This approach is especially useful when:

  • Clients feel stuck, overwhelmed, or demoralized

  • Time is limited, as in schools, healthcare, or brief intervention settings

  • Clients are mandated, disengaged, or not well-suited to traditional therapy

  • You need a flexible model that works across cultures, systems, and modalities

SFBT is widely used and effective across diverse settings, including schools, community mental health, behavioral health, private practice, and government services such as child protection and welfare settings. You’ll gain the structure, techniques, and practical guidance to use SFBT confidently with individuals, families, adolescents, couples, and mandated clients.

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Your Learning Experience Includes

This on-demand course is designed to fit your schedule. You’ll get:

  • Step-by-step video lessons with clear teaching points

  • Filmed roleplays with diverse client examples

  • Clinical commentary that connects theory to practice

  • Downloadable tools and resources for use in sessions - yours to keep

New to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy? Explore a Q&A with Cynthia Franklin Understanding Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.

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Continuing Education & Professional Development (CE/CME/CPD)

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is designed for mental health professionals worldwide. On completion, you’ll receive an official certificate of completion, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

This course offers up to 8 CE/CME credit hours for US licensed professionals:

  • Psychologists – 8 CE hours, co-sponsored with Amedco, an APA-approved sponsor.

  • Social workers – 8 CE credits, ASWB ACE.

  • Physicians – 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, through Amedco’s ACCME joint accreditation.

  • Nurses – 8 ANCC contact hours.

  • Counselors, MFTs & addiction professionals – 8 hours, accepted by many US state boards via APA and ASWB ACE credit. See the state-by-state acceptance lists.

  • New York professionals – 8 hours through Amedco’s provider approvals for Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage & Family Therapy.

Credit acceptance varies by profession and state. Please check your licensing board’s requirements.

View the full learner notification for this course (PDF) — includes complete accreditation statements, state board acceptance lists, learning objectives and faculty disclosures.

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How Your Course Works

On-Demand Learning

Our beautiful, on-demand lessons are designed to fit into your schedule. Choose how much or how little to do, whenever it suits you.

Access Anytime for 12 months

You’ll have a full 12 months to explore the entire course, return to key ideas, and learn at your own pace. There's no set time to be online.

Build Practical Skills

Designed for real-world practice, this course help you build skills that translate directly into better sessions.

Explore Bonus Content

Your course includes optional bonus content, so you can dig deeper into topics that matter most to you.

Download Free Digital Library

Download a library of extra tools and resources to enrich your learning and support your practice.

Receive a Certificate

Receive a certificate and the option to earn CE / CME credits upon completion of your course.

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