Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D.
Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D., is a physician, educator, former nurse, and author with over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience. She works with hundreds of organizations across mental health, schools, healthcare, and community systems, helping professionals bring hope, agency, and dignity into conversations that shape meaningful change.
Trained directly by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer, the founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Dr. Lutz has dedicated her career to advancing and teaching solution-focused practices. Her work spans organizations, community mental health, schools, colleges, residential treatment programs, and military settings, including work with chaplains and military families, as well as adolescents and families navigating trauma, substance use, and co-occurring challenges.
Dr. Lutz teaches organizations, clinicians, educators, healthcare practitioners, and transdisciplinary teams through training, workshops, and clinical supervision. Her work emphasizes practical, evidence-based, strengths-focused approaches that professionals can use immediately in real-world settings—one conversation at a time.
She is the author of Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide, which includes over 30 video demonstrations and extensive case examples, and The Solution-Focused Mindset for Anxiety and Depression, a practical workbook that fosters hope, resilience, and emotional well-being. She also authored the first chapter on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy included in the 11th edition of Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, marking a significant milestone for the field.
In addition, Dr. Lutz has developed and authored multiple continuing education courses through the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, including:
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: An Introduction to Clinical Practice
- Engaging Youth and Families Impacted by Substance Use: A Solution-Focused Approach
- Foundations of Solution-Focused Practices Online Intensive
- Solution-Focused Crisis and Trauma Interventions
- Clients Experiencing Grief: A Solution-Focused Approach
- Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Health
Her mission is to cultivate hope in individuals and systems by equipping professionals with practical, evidence-based, strengths-focused tools that foster resilience, restore dignity, and support meaningful change through a solution-focused approach.
Contact Anne: anne@solutionfocused.net