Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Help clients move forward - by focusing on what’s already working.
About the course
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8 Hours | 12 months accessWho this course is for
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Find out moreHelp 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.
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.
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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Course Overview
Course Sections
Build the foundations for thinking and working in a solution-focused way. Explore the mindset and principles behind SFBT, including hope, agency, collaboration, and the power of language, while seeing how these ideas shape real therapeutic conversations.
Learn how an SFBT session comes together from beginning to end. Through practical teaching and demonstrations, you’ll see how to get to know the person beyond the problem, uncover strengths and resources, and create a collaborative foundation for solution-building.
Go deeper into the questions and conversational techniques at the heart of SFBT. Learn how to formulate meaningful goals and skilfully use Miracle, scaling, exception, coping, relationship, and future-oriented questions, with detailed demonstrations showing how to adapt and combine them in practice.
Develop your skills for some of the more nuanced moments in SFBT. Learn how to end sessions in ways that reinforce progress and meaningful next steps, alongside practical strategies for working collaboratively with mandated clients and people who may not have chosen to attend therapy.
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Self-directed courses are available immediately - you don't need to wait for a start date! You can log in and begin learning at a time that suits you, progressing through the course at your own pace.
You'll have access to a library packed with downloadable resources, and each course contains bonus 'dig deeper' content designed to enrich your learning experience.
Throughout the course you can log into your Psychwire account from anywhere - at any time - and there's no need to be online at a specific time.
Certificates will be available for download in 'My Dashboard' after all content has been completed, and for CE Certificates, if all requirements have been met.
If you complete the full course, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion.
If you complete at least 75%, you’ll receive a Letter of Participation.
To earn a CE/CME Certificate, you’ll need to:
Score at least 80% overall on the course quizzes.
- All quiz questions (except any pre-test questions) count toward your score.
- You have up to three attempts to answer each multiple choice question correctly.
Complete the full course.
Pay the $20 USD CE/CME processing fee before you finish the course.
Submit the post-course evaluation form.
All certificates will be available for download in 'My Dashboard' - please allow at least seven days for processing.
You don't need to be online at a specific time! You can log in and out at a time that suits you and learn at your own pace.
If your course has a forum, trainers will be online throughout the week to answer questions, but please allow a couple of days for your questions to be answered.