Transforming Lives Through Strategic Therapy
Strategic Therapy Europe is the hub for everything strategic therapy. We’re a passionate community dedicated to empowering therapists worldwide with transformative tools to create lasting change for their clients.
Strategic Therapy: A Powerful Approach
Strategic therapy is an evidence-based approach that equips therapists with effective and efficient techniques. Unlike traditional methods, it focuses on the present dynamics maintaining problems, not dwelling on the past. By disrupting these patterns, therapists help clients to achieve lasting improvements.
Empowering Patients
Thanks to a constructivist approach, ST equips individuals and families with practical skills they can utilize throughout their lives, fostering self-reliance and long-term well-being.
High Effectiveness
A proven method to help clients overcome challenges and achieve lasting change. Science-backed techniques to empower individuals and families to thrive.
High Efficacy
Achieve significant progress in fewer sessions, leading to faster patient improvement and increased therapist effectiveness.
Your Gateway to Strategic Therapy Expertise
- Comprehensive Training Programs: Develop your skills through our world-class training programs, led by renowned strategic therapy experts.
- Cutting-Edge Resources: Access a wealth of materials, research, and ongoing support to stay at the forefront of the field.
- Global Network: Connect with a vibrant community of therapists worldwide, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.
- Become a Leader: Contribute to the advancement of strategic therapy by sharing your expertise and shaping the future of the field.
“By sharing the transformative power of strategic therapy, we can create positive change, empowering individuals and families everywhere to overcome challenges and thrive without wasting any time.”
dr. Maurizio Iengo
Founder of strategictherapy.eu
Maurizio Iengo is an Italian psychologist dedicated to practice and promoting strategic therapy. Recognizing its profound potential to transform lives, Maurizio has embarked on a mission to revitalize this therapeutic approach and make it renowned across the globe.
Despite its origins in the United States, strategic therapy has largely been forgotten outside of Italy, where it continues to flourish. This disparity inspired Maurizio to establish this website, aiming to bridge the gap and restore strategic therapy to its rightful place in the global therapeutic landscape.
Through his efforts, he seeks to ensure that individuals and families worldwide can benefit from the powerful techniques and insights of strategic therapy.
To find out more about his work, you can visit www.maurizioiengo.it (in Italian)
Blog Posts
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How to train in strategic therapy: skills, supervision and what to look for in a course
Reading the founding texts gives you the theory. The skill comes from supervised practice against real session tape, and from programs that show you the failures.
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Case study: one session, one shift. A single-session intervention with three-month follow-up
A composite case showing what one strategic session can do when the problem is narrow enough for one meeting to be the whole plan.
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Case study: breaking an OCD checking ritual with a paradoxical prescription
A published case from the strategic literature: a ten-year-old’s reassurance ritual broken with a symptom prescription and a transitional object.
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Case study: a couple caught in a pursue-withdraw loop
A composite case showing how a demand-withdraw sequence can be interrupted by two small agreed changes, without settling whose complaint was more legitimate.
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Case study: ending panic attacks in five sessions with brief strategic therapy
A composite case, built from typical presentations and published protocols, showing a favourable five-session course and why five is not the average.
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Single session therapy: how to make one meeting count
Most clients who see a therapist once did not drop out. For a real share of them, one session was always the plan.
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Parents who try too hard: strategic work with families of anxious children
An anxious child rarely maintains the fear alone. A parent’s reassurance, and an imbalance in who is involved, usually does half the work.
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Couples stuck in escalation: strategic interventions for the therapy room
In an escalating couple each partner’s response is also their attempted solution, and it is precisely what keeps the other’s behaviour running.
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OCD and reassurance seeking: blocking the attempted solution
Checking and asking don’t settle an obsessive doubt. They train the mind to treat doubt as intolerable. How to interrupt that training.
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Panic attacks: a strategic protocol for the first three sessions
In panic disorder the client’s effort to prevent the next attack is usually what keeps the alarm primed. A three-session structure, and what three sessions can’t do.
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