Welcome - Deane Shapiro, Jr.
Description: Control Therapy is based on the belief that all of us want to have a positive sense of control about our lives and that we feel happier and healthier when we do. Yet, each of us—client, student, teacher—also knows from first-hand experience that we receive assaults to our sense of control as we go through life.
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Helping Individuals Gain a Positive Sense of Control In their Lives
Control Therapy is based on the belief that all of us want to have a positive sense of control about our lives and that we feel happier and healthier when we do. Yet, each of us—client, student, teacher—also knows from first-hand experience that we receive assaults to our sense of control as we go through life. Some of these are the result of inevitable existential suffering inherent in being alive. Others are what we might call “unnecessary suffering” brought about by poor choices, lack of skillful respons
Based on an educational model, CT is a short term therapeutic approach that provides a systematic way of helping individuals learn about their own unique “Control Profile”, examine their control stories and dynamics and assaults to their sense of control, and then determine when to use which types of control enhancing strategies to address their concerns and develop a positive sense of control in their lives.
Welcome - Deane Shapiro, Jr.