Empowerment Based Cognitive Therapy

Clients universally seek treatment when they experience an intolerable loss of power. They feel overwhelmed by out of control moods, impulses, relationships and life situations. Empowerment based cognitive therapy restores the client's sense of power and agency to make their lives better or meaningful.

In this workshop we will

• Cover the theoretical basics of empowerment and disempowerment.
• Examine how clients' power is taken from them.
• Consider cognitive therapy techniques to 'disempower' the forces of disempowerment and to strengthen the client's abilities to thrive.
• Learn how these techniques can be integrated into the treatment of a variety of clinical challenges and can be integrated into various approaches of analytic and client centered psychotherapies.
• With the use of role plays and in-vivo experiments, we will reveal how true personal empowerment can transform the lives of our clients.