Welcome to Pain Resolution Therapy

You want to become
the therapist that solves
chronic pain.

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1,800,000,000

people living with chronic pain that medicine cannot explain.

Look around you. One in four adults. Nearly two billion people are suffering from pain medicine cannot explain. Almost no practitioner was trained to resolve it.

The pain no diagnosis could explain

There is a type of person medicine has no answer for. We teach you how to help them.

Psychosomatic pain is real pain. Your future clients feel every bit of it. They have already been to every specialist, and every specialist has given them the same defeated answer: "Learn to live with it." Would you accept that? Of course not. We all deserve to live pain free.

That refusal is the whole point. There are too many people around us carrying pain they could fully resolve, and we consider it a duty to give them that option. Whether you are just starting out or have years of practice behind you, this is a skill worth having. See the full curriculum →

Find your path

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Are you currently practicing as a therapist or coach?

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When a client with unexplained chronic pain lands in your practice, what happens?

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What matters most to you as you build your practice?

Your path

You're already making the right call. What's been missing is the framework.

Psychosomatic pain has recognizable patterns: pain with no corresponding structural findings, often shifting location or intensifying under emotional pressure. Once you can identify it confidently, you can work with it.

PRT builds that recognition skill in Module 1, before any of the resolution work begins. Most practitioners refer these clients out because the framework is missing, not because the cases can't be resolved. They can be resolved. Consistently, in four to six sessions — and the clients they help become the most reliable source of referrals in any practice.

Where to go next

Apply to the program

Your path

Inconsistent results on psychosomatic cases almost always trace back to the same thing: the symptom is being addressed, but its function is not.

Jay Haley put it plainly: every symptom has a function. It persists for as long as that function remains unaddressed. PRT gives you a structured method for identifying and resolving that function directly, in most cases within four to six sessions.

If you're already developing instinct with these clients, you're further along than you think. What PRT adds is reproducibility: the same outcome, with every client who fits the profile. Module 3 is typically where practitioners describe the shift from managing to resolving.

Where to go next

Apply to the program

Your path

This is exactly what PRT is built for. And it works from day one.

Psychosomatic pain is one of the most underserved areas in all of therapy. Almost every practitioner encounters it. Almost none know how to resolve it. Practitioners who can become the person everyone in their network refers to — without advertising, without outreach, without competing on price.

Several practitioners in the PRT program came in with no prior professional background in therapy. The program is structured so that the methodology comes first: you build the framework as you learn, with a certified trainer alongside you through every module and every case. The certification establishes your scope before you see your first client.

Where to go next

Apply to the program

Your path

Fair question. Effective here means resolution, not management.

Psychosomatic pain carries a psychological function. When that function goes unaddressed, the symptom persists. Strategic brief therapy, the lineage PRT is built on, addresses the function directly. When the function is resolved, the symptom has no remaining purpose.

Most PRT practitioners resolve cases that conventional therapy has been managing for months or years, inside four to six sessions. The approach has roots in fifty years of research from Jay Haley, Milton Erickson, and the strategic brief therapy tradition. The PRT curriculum teaches that approach in a structured, step-by-step program, with a certified trainer reviewing your cases alongside you.

Where to go next

Apply to the program

What changes when you can resolve it

When you resolve what everyone else sent away,
your clients become your entire marketing department.

A client whose chronic chest pain resolves in two sessions tells their doctor, their spouse, and every person they know who has the same problem. You do not find these referrals. They arrive on their own, already convinced.

Every symptom has a function. It will persist for as long as that function remains unaddressed. Jay Haley · Problem-Solving Therapy
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I had a client with fibromyalgia who had seen three therapists before me. In our fourth session, she called to say the pain was gone. She had sent two colleagues by the following month. That was eighteen months ago. I have not taken a new client from advertising since.

Sarah M. · Licensed Therapist, New York · PRT Certified 2023

The Haley framework clicked for me in Module 3. I realized I had been managing these clients, not resolving anything. Six months later I had a two-month waitlist. For the first time in twelve years of practice.

David K. · Psychotherapist, London · PRT Certified 2022

I came in as a career changer with no background in therapy at all. The trainer stayed with me through every case. I now run a full-time practice built entirely around this specialty. The referrals come without any effort on my part.

Rachel T. · PRT Practitioner, Toronto · Certified 2024

The program

This is a certification program.
Our focus is on practical application.

Pain Resolution Therapy is an 8-module training program built in the Jay Haley tradition. You work through the full method with a certified trainer alongside you: reviewing your cases, answering your questions, keeping you moving. When you complete the program, you graduate as a credentialed PRT Practitioner, certified by the Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy.

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Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy · Jay Haley tradition · 25 years of practice

Build the practice that fills itself.

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PRT founders

Pain Resolution Therapy is a program of the Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy.

iAST was founded to carry forward the tradition of Jay Haley and Milton Erickson. Brief, strategic work that produces results. PRT applies that methodology to one of the most underserved problems in therapy: pain that medicine cannot explain and most practitioners cannot resolve.

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Lineage Jay Haley and Milton Erickson. The tradition of brief, directive therapy that measures success by outcomes, not duration.
Practice 25 years of practice. PRT emerged from cases that conventional therapy could not resolve.
Methodology PRT is built on strategic brief therapy. Cases are resolved in sessions, not years. The methodology measures itself by outcomes.
Credential PRT Practitioner certification is issued by the Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy, the institution that developed the methodology and trains every practitioner it certifies.

Institute for Applied Strategic Therapy

You know what pain feels like.
Now you learn to resolve it.

Apply to receive the full curriculum, enrollment details, and a sample lesson from the program. No price is published until you apply.

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