Neurobiological research on memory reconsolidation has revealed the brain's only known process for actually unlocking and rewriting the neural encoding of emotional learnings, which are responsible for clinical symptoms of many kinds, behavioral, emotional, cognitive and somatic. The specific, behavioral process identified by neuroscientists for neurologically eliminating an underlying, target emotional learning is exactly the process of Coherence Therapy. Likewise, clinical observations of profound change in Coherence Therapy exactly match the characteristics of change observed by neuroscientists in laboratory studies of the "erasure" of emotional learnings by the reconsolidation process.

These definite correspondences between research and therapeutic process, described more fully in the articles listed and linked below, strongly support the hypothesis that Coherence Therapy achieves profound change by inducing reconsolidation and neurologically nullifying problematic emotional learnings. This would be consistent also with the fact that in Coherence Therapy, symptoms are observed to cease with no use of counteractive methods aimed at building up preferred responses –the strategy of most psychotherapies in widespread use.

It is particularly noteworthy that the first article listed below—the memory reconsolidation research review by Ecker (2024)—shows explicitly and unambiguously that in each of the first 20 laboratory neuroscience studies that successfully nullified an acquired emotional response with behavioral unlearning, the same set of distinct experiences was created; and also that Coherence Therapy consists of creating exactly that set of experiences. Thus Coherence Therapy is the direct translation into psychotherapy of an empirically well-established process of profound unlearning of emotional memory, which is why it has the clinical field’s worldwide interest and respect.  

The moment-to-moment process of facilitating those experiences, producing prompt transformational change, is documented meticulously in numerous published cases of Coherence Therapy, showing the complete long-term cessation of many different symptoms, including post-traumatic symptoms (for a complete list of which, see https://bit.ly/2tKXdyX ).  Coherence Therapy practitioners work to create the critical set of experiences using any of the therapy field’s vast array of experiential techniques for doing so. That free hand on the level of techniques means Coherence Therapy is not manualizable in the manner required for adherence to be confirmable in randomized controlled trials. Specialized study design is necessary (such as that described in the fifth reference listed below, Ecker and Vaz, 2022), which is under active development in the Coherence Psychology Institute at the present time.