Coherence Therapy


The art & science of lasting change




 

Coherence Therapy Milestones
 
1993 First workshop conducted in Tucson, Arizona.
1996 Publication of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy by Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley (Jossey-Bass)
2001 Included in the Handbook of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (K. S. Dobson, Ed., pp. 407-411, Guilford Press).
2003 Included in Essential Psychotherapies, 2nd Ed. (A. S. Gurman & S. B. Messer, Eds., pp. 290-292, Guilford Press).
2006 First of Ecker's presentations of the neuroscience of reconsolidation to clinical and academic psychologists and psychotherapists. Conference keynote address at the University of California describes matching steps of Coherence Therapy and reconsolidation and hypothesizes that Coherence Therapy deletes emotional implicit memory by inducing reconsolidation.
2007 Publication of the first of three peer-reviewed journal articles on the neuroscience of Coherence Therapy; second article published in 2008, third in 2009.
2007 University of Florida researchers initiate the first outcome study (randomized controlled trial) of Coherence Therapy.
2008 Founding of the Coherence Psychology Institute by Bruce Ecker and Sara K. Bridges; launch of the Coherence Therapy Training and Certification Program.
2008 Coherence Therapy workshop included in the CE program of the American Psychological Association’s annual convention, and again in 2009.
2009 The Online Academy of the American Psychological Association adds a course on Coherence Therapy.
2009 University of Florida researchers report favorable results of the first outcome study of Coherence Therapy at the APA annual convention in Toronto.