Coherence Therapy Workshop: An Evidence-Based Framework for Memory Reconsolidation and Lasting Transformational Change

1. List the steps of the methodology of coherence therapy that directly carry out the memory reconsolidation process of unlearning.
2. Define the principle of symptom coherence that illuminates both symptom production and symptom cessation, guiding coherence therapy’s process.
3. Define the structure of symptom-generating emotional schemas, and mental models as conceptualized in coherence therapy for keeping the therapist focused on the optimal targets of change.

Introduction to Coherence Therapy

• Essential methodology and guiding principles
• The distinct markers of deep, transformational change
• Demystify the hidden emotional logic generating client’s symptoms
• Traumatic vs. non traumatic suffering and how both form long-term emotional patterns

How Coherence Therapy Reaches the Core of Symptom Production

• Focused prompts that move clients from “talking about” to embodied emotional experience
• Methods of exploration that reveal the implicit emotional learnings driving symptoms
• Recognize the markers that tell you you’ve reached full discovery of schema content
• Research counter-indications: when not to use coherence therapy
• Risks and Limitations

Using Memory Reconsolidation for Enhanced Therapeutic Effectiveness

• Understand what MR is and how it works
• Key aspects all therapists need to know about the neuroscience research findings
• Create the juxtaposition experience that induces deep unlearning and transformation change
• How the therapeutic reconsolidation process serves as a transtheoretical map guiding your use of MR within your preferred systems of therapy
• Video demonstration of a real session of coherence therapy

• Counselors
• Therapists
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Behavioral Health Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals