Solution-Focused Therapy Online Self-Paced Courses
The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy offers self-paced courses you can complete on your own schedule, designed for professionals across disciplines who want to ask questions that help people shape what happens next through evidence-based and trauma-informed solution-focused practice.
All courses include accredited continuing education for eligible professionals and provide ongoing access to course materials so you can revisit key concepts and continue refining your skills over time.
You can start anywhere and choose the path that works best for you, whether you are building foundational skills, deepening advanced practice, or applying solution-focused conversations within your own professional setting.
Each course centers on video demonstrations of real sessions, paired with focused lectures, guided practice, and in-depth written materials, including chapter-length content and full-length books authored within the Institute, providing practical tools you can use right away.
Self -Paced Courses
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Core Skills
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.
Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused Practice
22 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $495
This 22-hour Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused Practice provides in-depth, skill-based training in how to ask questions, respond, and guide conversations toward solutions and clear next steps. Designed for professionals across disciplines, with no prior training required. Includes comprehensive materials, video lectures, over 50 demonstrations, and structured practice.
Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused School-Based Practice
19 CE Credit/Clock Hours – $450
This course offers 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, and lecture-based course with exams. It has 34 video demonstrations.
Solution-Focused Practice in Crisis and Trauma
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.
Solution-Focused Practice in Substance Use Care
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 Practice in Grief and Loss
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.
Solution-Focused Practice in 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.