|
|
|
<>
Coherence therapy was developed over the last 20 years by psychotherapists Bruce Ecker, LMFT
and Laurel Hulley, MA. They micro-examined many hundreds of deep change
events of their clients, identifying the details of the inner and outer
processes that had occurred. The aim was to cleanly recognize the
brain's and mind's own built-in rules of change, and then to form a
psychotherapy made up of nothing but methods tailored to those
powerful, native processes.
|
|
"Depth oriented brief
therapy" (DOBT) was the name used from 1993, when the first training workshop was held, until
2005. Ecker and Hulley have changed the moniker to coherence therapy in
order to more clearly reflect the central principle of the approach,
which is the complete coherence
of the unconscious schemas that
maintain unwanted patterns of experience.
|
A
major neuroscience
discovery
in 2000 has
provided strong
support for coherence
therapy. The specific steps that Ecker and Hulley
identified as the
built-in process of deep change correspond point-for-point with the steps that
neuroscientists have now identified as bringing about an
unexpectedly
powerful type of synapse change -- so powerful that it can actually
erase the subcortical, neural circuits of long-standing emotional
conditioning. More...
|
|
|
Online
Course
Descriptions
CE credit for Psychologists,
LMFTs, LCSWs, Counselors
---------------------------------
|
|
---------------------------------
|
"It is a bold vision...
as
conceptually strong as it
is compassionate...
I wholeheartedly recommend coherence therapy as
the
most compelling incarnation of clinical constructivism on the
contemporary scene."
--Robert A.
Neimeyer, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Constructivist Psychology |
|
|
"This is a brilliant
break- through... Accessible,
nonpathologizing language, sophisticated yet profoundly simple theory,
and powerful therapeutic process combine to make this work of the
highest significance. I have rarely been this impressed."
--Stephen M. Johnson, Ph.D., author of Character
Styles, Characterological Transform- ation and other titles |
|
|
"A
challenging,
precise, and exciting approach...
combine[s] a thoughtful attention to the unconscious with a commitment
to
making every session count. Gutsy, convincing and powerful!"
--David
B. Waters, Ph.D., Professor of Family Practice & Psychiatry,
University of Virginia, author of Competence, Courage and Change |
|
|
