Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D.

Anne Bodmer Lutz, MD, is a physician, former nurse, educator, author, and Executive Director of the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy. With more than 30 years of clinical, teaching, and workforce development experience, she partners with organizations across behavioral health, education, healthcare, and community systems to help professionals build hope, agency, and dignity through solution-focused practice.

Dr. Lutz trained directly with Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer, the founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and has dedicated her career to advancing evidence-based solution-focused practice through teaching, consultation, research, and continuing education. Through the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, she provides live training, customized workforce development initiatives, clinical supervision, and self-paced continuing education.

She is the author of Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide, featuring more than 30 video demonstrations and extensive case examples, and The Solution-Focused Mindset for Anxiety and Depression, a practical workbook that helps readers apply solution-focused language and practices to strengthen hope, resilience, and emotional well-being. She also authored the first chapter on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in the 11th edition of Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, helping bring SFBT into one of psychiatry’s leading reference texts.

Dr. Lutz has also developed continuing education courses and advanced certificate programs that support the implementation of solution-focused practice across behavioral health, education, healthcare, and community settings.

Her mission is to cultivate hope by equipping professionals with practical, evidence-based solution-focused skills that strengthen relationships, restore dignity, and create meaningful change—one conversation at a time.

Contact: anne@solutionfocused.net