RapidChange Therapy (RCT) is a goal-oriented, brief therapeutic approach that uses Cognitive Behavioral and Solutions Focused Therapy techniques and strategies. RCT assists individuals in achieving behavioral change by helping them accept and actualize their potential for articulating goals, overcoming obstacles, and achieving positive outcomes.

RapidChange Therapy is particularly suited to therapeutic work with "at-risk" youth and adults. These individuals have histories of behavioral disturbance, school failure, violations of societal rules, and frequent contacts with law enforcement and mental health professionals.

Such individuals have been the focus of multiple attempts by others to change their behavior and by others' unrelenting insistence that they "need" to change. At-risk individuals see this "need" as the "need" of others, not theirs. Consequently, at-risk reflexively reject advice, suggestions, direction, or any other type of intervention aimed at changing their behavior, especially interventions from those at-risk individuals regard as authority figures - parents, probation officers, police officers, school teachers, therapists, social workers, etc. At-risk individuals see authority figures as having little interest in them as individuals except as problems to be solved.

Additionally, because at-risk individuals are usually not self-referred, but referred by an authority figure or an organization, they are usually unwilling clients. They did not ask to be "fixed" and they did not ask for someone to impose themselves into their lives. It follows then that the RapidChange therapists' initial task is to transform the at-risk individual from client as object of change, to co-therapist assisting in the process of change.