Empowerment Therapy Book

In this major new book, Myra Walden makes a brilliant and original contribution to psychotherapy practice.

Empowerment Therapy aids clients in identifying their experienced needs and helps them articulate them in a nonviolent way. […]

They become more able to articulate their needs, and they communicate more effectively with greater self-acceptance and self-respect.

Walden makes a particularly important contribution by explicating how societal systems of domination and oppression tend to invalidate and suppress our real needs. This lack of confidence in our own lived experience and obfuscation of our genuine needs for respect, equality, and connection with others manifests in addictions, anxiety, and depression. By contrast, as we are more aware, direct, open, and honest about our real needs, we gain more self-respect and fulfillment, and are empowered to seek higher levels of functioning and joy in life.

- Marge Witty, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Illinois School of Professional Psychology