Therapy is not about understanding. It's about change.

The Institute

The Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy

iAST was established to advance the practice of strategic and Ericksonian therapy through education, certification, and practitioner tools. It publishes clinical resources, training programs, and methodology grounded in the Haley and Erickson traditions.

The Institute's work spans individual practitioners, training programs, and professional associations. Its flagship resources include Pain Resolution Therapy — a full practitioner certification in treating psychosomatic pain — and Rapport7, the clinical resource library you are using now.

Rapport7 is organized so you can use it in the session you are preparing for right now, without committing to a new theoretical framework first.

Learn more about the Institute at appliedstrategictherapy.com.

The Tradition

Jay Haley changed what therapy could be. He rejected the idea that understanding a problem is the same as solving it. Instead, he asked a harder question: what will actually move this person?

Milton Erickson showed that change doesn't require the client to understand what's happening. It requires the therapist to understand the client. Their language, their resistance, their readiness.

Abraham Twerski was a psychiatrist, rabbi, and one of the most widely read voices in clinical practice of the last century. His work on self-esteem, addiction, and the mechanics of human behavior reflected a belief shared by the strategic tradition: that insight alone does not produce change. The therapist's job is to guide it.

Rapport7 carries that tradition forward. Every guide, every directive, every case analysis on this site starts from the same premise: the test of good clinical work is whether something actually changed.