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Digital Seminar

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Crash Course

Fast-Acting Tools from SFBT for Anxiety, Stress, Relationship Issues and More

Speaker:
Corey Pitts, LCMHC
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Jun 15, 2026
Product Code:
POS150703
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

This Training Helps You Give Clients What They Want Most: Progress They Can Feel --Fast

  • Learn a proven approach trusted by clinicians
  • Simple techniques you can apply immediately
  • Learn the best questions to spark change
  • Create client-driven goals that feel achievable and motivating
  • Includes scripts, case studies and demonstrations

 

When clients come to you looking for relief they need to feel progress fast.

But so many therapies take so much time. Weeks, months, years. Digging into root causes. Analyzing the past. Focusing on problems.

And clients? They quickly feel overwhelmed and buried under their struggles. 15 sessions deep, they feel worse than when they started …

… and they start to think “therapy doesn’t work” or “this therapist can’t help me.”

That’s why you need Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).

Because SFBT doesn’t rely on finding root causes or over-analysis, and instead asks “what’s already working and how do you do more of that?”

Its simple yet powerful tools create momentum fast … with clients often seeing progress in just a session or two. Best of all, this evidence-based treatment allows you to work from a positive, strengths-based approach that feels better for clients and for you.

Now in this one-day training you can learn to start using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy skills and tools in your own practice to bring rapid change to clients facing anxiety, stress, relationship issues and more.

You’ll join Corey Pitts, a licensed therapist with over a decade of experience using SFBT with clients in a variety of settings.

Whether you’re working in private practice, community mental health, schools, EAP programs or anywhere clients need quick results, he’ll make using SFBT feel easy with step-by-step instruction, real-world case studies, scripting you can use with your clients, and much more.

When every session counts, having the right tools matters.

Don’t miss this chance to add the evidence-based power of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to your clinical toolbox.

Register now!

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Speaker

Corey Pitts, LCMHC's Profile

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Corey Pitts, LCMHC, is a mental health therapist and clinical supervisor working in private practice. Corey has been a therapist for close to ten years and is an adjunct instructor with the Division of Mental Health Counseling at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment and management of co-occurring disorders such as trauma, anxiety/depression, substance use, as well as aspects of various mood and personality disorders. He uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has several years of experience implementing it in a wide array of treatment settings including community outreach models as well as Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in a rural community that was once fifth in the nation for opioid-related overdoses. Corey also holds tenure in providing DBT within co-morbid hospital-based intensive outpatient (IOP) settings (primarily substance use disorders/borderline personality disorder) holding both skills-based DBT groups and individual DBT therapy interventions. Corey is known for a teaching style that makes vague concepts seem simple to grasp and use.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Corey Pitts has employment relationships with BetterHelp.com, UNC School of Medicine, Teladoc Health, and E-Care Behavioral Health Institute. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Corey Pitts has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Analyze the core principles of solution-focused brief therapy and its application to clinical practice.
  2. Identify contradictions, potential risk factors and variable considerations in the use of solution-focused brief therapy.
  3. Evaluate the benefits and limitations of SFBT in the treatment of varying mental health disorders.
  4. Utilize three SFBT questioning techniques (Miracle Question, Scaling, Exception Questions) with clients.
  5. Integrate strategies and tools from solution-focused brief therapy into clinical practice in the management of anxiety, stress and depression.
  6. Utilize SFBT strategies to identify and amplify strengths and resources to facilitate positive change in relationships.

Outline

SFBT Overview and Core Concepts: Move Clients Away from Problems to Focus on What Works

  • Why brevity matters
  • “Present-oriented” approaches
  • Core principles: future-focused, strengths-based, and goal-oriented
  • Focus on “what works”
  • Strategies to aid clients with autonomy
  • Research, risks and limitations

The “How To’s” of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Strategies to Build Rapport, Instill Hope and Empower Your Clients

  • Move from “problem expert” to “solution facilitator”
  • Build rapid rapport and instilling hope
  • Language that empowers clients
  • Develop strategies to assist with goal-orientation (via SMART goals)
  • Emphasis on collaborative partnership

Simple SFBT Techniques for Your Next Session: Use Questions to Unlock Solutions and Spark Change

  • Motivation: how to work with the “visitor, complainant, and customer”
  • How SFBT questioning enhances treatment
  • The Miracle Question: Creating a vision for change
  • Exception Questions: The key to identifying what already works
  • Use Scaling Questions to measure progress and motivation
  • Sequence questions for flow and impact

Structure Brief Sessions for Maximum Impact

  • First-session strategies for immediate progress
  • Keep therapy focused and time-efficient
  • Manage setbacks and maintain momentum
  • Indicators for when SFBT is (or isn’t) the right fit

Apply Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to Common Clinical Issues: SFBT in Action with Anxiety, Stress, Depression and Relationship Challenges

  • Scale questions to break anxiety down into manageable steps
  • Interrupt worry loops by identifying exceptions
  • Reframe stress as manageable by emphasizing strengths and resources
  • Shift relationship conversations from problems to possibilities
  • Build trust through strengths-based language
  • Cultural considerations and diverse client needs
  • Scripts and language you can use tomorrow
  • Case examples and role-play demonstrations
  • Integrate SFBT with other modalities

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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