The Institute for Substance-Assisted Therapy does not follow any established school of therapy, but rather sees itself as a powerful agent in the development of its own therapy, which may develop into a separate school—which is not the primary concern of the IST—or more into a range of possible applications that exist side by side on equal footing. Accordingly, the IST experiments with the use of tools and methods from various therapeutic schools to explore which of them are beneficial to the client’s therapeutic process before, during, or after the substance’s effects.
Furthermore, the Institute for Substance-Assisted Therapy is politically, religiously, and ideologically neutral and independent.