- Future-focused: Supports clients to move forward rather than revisiting the same difficulties repeatedly.
- Evidence-based: Supported by decades of outcome research and systematic reviews, with success rates averaging around 60%.
- Collaborative and respectful: Centres the client’s perception, language, and goals regardless of diagnosis.
- Time efficient: Typically delivered in 4–5 sessions, helping reduce waitlists and caseload pressure.
- Builds staff morale: Enhances confidence, reduces burnout, and improves satisfaction for practitioners.
- Contemporary: Aligns with strengths-based practice, positive psychology, recovery models, and commitment therapy.
- Wide application: Effective across therapy, supervision, leadership, education, and youth services.
- Simple and practical: Clear key concepts that clients report “make sense” and translate into everyday life.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy Courses
Discover the evolution of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in our dynamic new two-day workshop, packed with 100% fresh content. From the foundational work of early pioneers to contemporary SFBT 2.0 approaches, this immersive experience is designed for both returning participants and newcomers who want a detailed, practical understanding of this highly effective therapy.
SFBT is a user-friendly and evidence-based practice that supports positive change across a wide range of mental health and wellbeing presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and crisis intervention. Its future orientation and emphasis on strengths make it particularly effective in settings requiring rapid engagement, collaboration, and hope-inspiring conversations.
Rather than analysing problems in depth, practitioners work with the client’s perspective to identify preferred outcomes, previous successes, and practical steps toward change. Join us to deepen your practice and apply techniques that strengthen the therapeutic relationship and improve outcomes across diverse settings.
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A strengths-based and future-oriented approach
This model is grounded in the belief that most clients already possess the resources needed to improve their situation. By focusing on what is working, even in small ways, therapists help clients build solutions that fit their everyday life, values, and goals. It is especially effective for clients managing trauma, navigating crisis situations, or experiencing conditions such as major depressive disorder, substance use disorders, and complex life stressors.
Evidence-based techniques that support change
The approach draws on outcome research, systematic reviews, and comparative meta-analysis demonstrating that meaningful results can be achieved in fewer sessions than many traditional methods. Techniques such as the miracle question, scaling questions, and solution talk help clients clarify preferred outcomes and strengthen commitment to change. This supports a collaborative process where the therapist believes in the client’s capacity to find solutions, rather than positioning themselves as the expert on the client’s life.
Application across family, clinical, and community settings
In family and marital therapy contexts, this practice supports healthy processes by helping clients identify what works within their relationships and build on existing strengths. The approach is widely used across youth services, clinical psychology, psychiatric treatment settings, schools, and brief family therapy centres, where time-efficient and evidence-based practice is essential.
Developing confident and effective practitioners
Training in this framework equips mental health professionals with tools for clear treatment planning, effective crisis intervention, and meaningful engagement without unnecessary complexity. By investigating solutions rather than problems, practitioners help clients move toward positive change while maintaining dignity, autonomy, and hope.
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