Solution-Focused Therapy Online Self-Paced Courses
The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy provides self-paced and live training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) for professionals across disciplines. Courses emphasize practical skills for immediate use and integrate video demonstrations, lectures, guided practice, and written materials within our online training platform, with continued access to course materials as participants integrate learning into everyday practice. Our instructors are experienced SFBT leaders trained by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer. Many courses offer accredited continuing education for select professions.
- Learn by watching: extensive video demonstrations of solution-focused conversations
- Deepen understanding with in-depth lectures and written course materials
- Practice skills using structured exercises you can return to over time
- Earn accredited continuing education for select professions
Self -Paced Courses
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: An Introduction to Clinical Practice
5 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $125
This 5-hour continuing education course offers an introduction to the clinical practice of solution-focused brief therapy and is structured as an online, self-paced, text materials and lecture-based course with exam. Areas covered include key components of SFBT in clinical practice, SFBT major tenets, SFBT evidence, and research. The lecture includes numerous demonstration videos.
Engaging Youth and Families Impacted by Substance Use: A Solution-Focused Approach
12 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $300
This 12-hour continuing education course provides clinically practical, skill-based training in engaging youth and families impacted by substance use using a Solution-focused brief therapy approach. The course integrates written instructional materials, 8 didactic lectures, 23 video-based clinical demonstrations, and structured practice exercises to illustrate how solution-focused conversations are applied in substance use treatment settings.
Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Health
19 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $450
This 19-hour continuing education course offers a comprehensive solution-focused brief conversational skills tailored for educational settings across the developmental spectrum. Solution-focused brief therapy equips transdisciplinary teams with solution-focused social-emotional learning techniques that can seamlessly integrate into school curricula and educational settings. The course structure includes an online self-paced, text-based, lecture-based course with exams. It has 34 video demonstrations.
Foundations of Solution-Focused Practices Online Intensive
19.5 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $495
This 19.5-hour continuing education course is our most complete and comprehensive self-paced, online program and includes a ten-part video lecture series, an electronic version of the book Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide, video demonstrations, case studies, and clinical practice exercises. This course provides an intensive investigation of the foundational knowledge, training, and practice in the Solution-Focused approach.
Solution-Focused Brief Crisis and Trauma Interventions
8.5 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $225.00
This 8.5-hour continuing education course offers providers the guidance and tools they need to address trauma in crisis situations with innovative solution-focused skills and interventions designed to stabilize and support clients through their darkest moments. It is structured as an online self-paced, text, and lecture-based course with exams. Areas covered include fundamental components of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), clinical interventions, and techniques applied in the context of crisis and trauma. The course also includes numerous case examples, over 2 hours of demonstration videos, and current SFBT evidence and research in the context of crisis and trauma.
Clients Experiencing Grief: A Solution-Focused Approach
5 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $125
This 5-hour continuing education course provides an application of the evidence-based Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Approach to counseling people in the aftermath of loss. This self-paced course offers a framework and practical techniques with reading material, text transcripts, video lecture, and a video case demonstration.
The Solution-Focused Mindset for Anxiety and Depression
6 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $125
This 6-hour continuing education self-paced, book-based course introduces an evidence-based, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach to managing anxiety and depression. Based on The Solution-Focused Mindset for Anxiety and Depression: A Workbook to Manage Emotions, Harness Your Strengths, and Feel Better Now, the course guides learners through structured chapters with practical, experiential exercises. Participants will build skills to activate agency, calm emotional distress, reframe with positive language, strengthen relationships, use scaling tools, and develop action plans, offering a hopeful, strengths-based path grounded in research and practice. Book sold separately.
Solution-Focused Well-Being Self-Help Techniques
Not eligible for continuing education credits – $20
This course is suitable for those seeking to improve their overall quality of life by envisioning, refining, pursuing and achieving practical goals reflective of their best hopes and aspirations. Students will discover their own best coping strategies, develop and implement their own uniquely effective solutions to everyday challenges and problems.