Issues | iAST

Strategic therapy treats the function of the problem, not the diagnosis. The directories below are organized by the pattern that holds the problem in place. Each hub leads to a clinical explanation and to the specific presentations within that pattern.

Anxiety Anxiety is a decision your mind makes about uncertainty. Once that decision is locked in, everything else follows. Read → I can't focus The list never gets done and the day is full of starting things and not finishing them and you've started to suspect it's not just laziness. Read → I feel lost You can't tell what you want or who you are anymore and the question has been getting louder. Read → I hate myself The voice in your head has been telling you you're not enough for years and you can't tell anymore whether it's right or just loud. Read → I have a habit I can't break You promised yourself you'd stop and you didn't, and you're tired of having the same fight with yourself. Read → I have a phobia You've arranged your life around avoiding the thing and the avoiding is what makes the fear worse every year. Read → I have a sexual problem The sex isn't working and the trying to fix it is what's been keeping it broken. Read → I have an addiction The thing started as a coping tool and it stopped being a tool a long time ago and you can't tell anymore who you'd be without it. Read → I have an eating problem Food has stopped being food and the rules around it have taken over more of your life every year. Read → I have anger problems You explode at the wrong things and you're tired of apologizing for the same thing every week. Read → I have family conflict Old patterns and old wounds and the role you were assigned still follows you when you walk into the room. Read → I have money anxiety The money in your account doesn't change how you feel about money and the anxiety has been there at every income level. Read → I have OCD Every ritual gives you a few minutes of relief and the next intrusive thought arrives sooner. Read → I have psychosomatic symptoms Your doctors can't find anything wrong, and you're left with a real symptom they can't explain. Read → I have relationship problems The fights keep happening and the patterns keep repeating no matter who you're with. Read → I have trauma Something happened and you survived it and the surviving has been costing you ever since. Read → I'm depressed Depression is what's left after every standard fix has failed and you've started to wonder if the problem is you. Read → I'm grieving You lost someone or something and the grief has become a place you live and you don't know how to leave it without losing them again. Read → I'm lonely And the loneliness has been here long enough that you've stopped expecting it to lift on its own. Read → I'm struggling as a parent Every step you take to fix it makes it worse and the steps that keep the problem alive feel like the only options you have. Read → I'm stuck in my career You've been about to make a move for years and you haven't made it, and you're starting to live inside the not-moving. Read → Our marriage is in trouble It used to feel like a partnership and now it feels like cohabitation and you can't name the day it became this. Read → Therapy isn't working for me You've been showing up and talking and you don't know whether you're getting better and you can't tell anymore if therapy is the answer. Read →

Issues | iAST

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Addiction

Anger

Anxiety

Career

Couple

Depression

Eating

Family

Focus

Grief

Habit

Identity

Loneliness

Money

OCD

Parenting

Phobia

Psychosomatic

Relationship

Self

Sex

Sleep

Therapy

Trauma