This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
When clients appear “high functioning” yet quietly remain in survival mode, traditional approaches often miss the hidden wounds that block true healing. The Empowerment Curriculum Model reframes the help-seeking relationship, equipping clinicians to foster real empowerment—not just symptom management.
Through this course, you’ll be invited to step beyond standard evaluation frameworks and into a model that minimizes barriers to engagement, strengthens the practitioner–client partnership, and leads to sustainable wellness outcomes.
Dr. Rosenna Bakari, PhD, is a psychologist and empowerment expert whose career spans drug recovery counseling, counselor education, and international advocacy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She developed her eight-week empowerment curriculum to reimagine the client’s role in healing and has presented on these approaches at national conferences, including the American Counseling Association.
Dr. Bakari’s approach is both practical and deeply client-centered: she blends structured curriculum with flexible attunement, guiding clients to depersonalize pain, uncover hidden narratives, and design their own blueprint for empowered living. Clinicians will walk away with a replicable model they can apply across diverse client populations.
In this 1.5-hour self-study course, you’ll explore the structure and philosophy of the Empowerment Curriculum Model. Topics include: barriers to traditional counseling and how to reduce them; reframing the practitioner’s role from expert evaluator to collaborative partner; defense mechanisms and attachment as gateways to empowerment; strategies for depersonalization and building self-awareness; integration of compatible wellness practices; and practical ways to adapt the eight modules of the curriculum into your own clinical setting.
Key Takeaways:
Practical framework: Learn a structured eight-module curriculum you can apply with clients to deepen healing.
Reframed practitioner role: Discover how to minimize barriers and increase client completion rates through a partnership approach.
Wellness integration: Gain tools for incorporating research-supported wellness strategies that align with empowerment-based care.
Why This Course?
Higher impact with clients: Move beyond helping clients simply “cope” by equipping them to live empowered, not just functional, lives.
Expert guidance: Learn directly from Dr. Bakari, an authority in empowerment psychology and international survivor advocacy.
Distinct advantage: While other trainings focus narrowly on treatment protocols, this course equips you to reimagine client healing with a scalable, holistic model.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the Empowerment Curriculum Module and its eight modules
Explain how barriers to traditional mental health counseling access and completion can be minimized by using the Empowerment Curriculum Model
Explain how reframing the role of behavioral health practitioner can enhance mental wellness
Identify three research-supported wellness approaches that are compatible with the model
Healing doesn’t have to stop at reducing symptoms—clients can be empowered to redefine their narratives, build resilience, and claim their full potential.
Enroll today in Applying the Empowerment Curriculum Model to Benefit Clients and bring a transformative framework into your practice.
Format and Access
This is a non-interactive, self-study program and consists of an hour and a half of video instruction and an evaluation.
Availability:
From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend:
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods:
This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend:
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Instructor
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About Dr. Rosenna Bakari, PhD
Dr. Rosenna Bakari, a Philadelphia native, is an empowerment expert psychologist. Her professional background varies from working as a drug recovery counselor to training preservice teachers and counselors. In 2010, she founded Talking Trees, Inc., the only international organization that focuses exclusively on empowering adults who experienced sexual abuse before the age of 18. She developed the Living Openly Model of Advocacy and Support based on her work with survivors worldwide. In a world that requires survivors’ silence, the model supports survivors who choose to heal by living openly.
One of Dr. Bakari’s goals is to support the shift of psychology from a focus on mental illness to mental wellness and break down barriers to wellness resources. As an empowerment coach, she works with clients worldwide using online one-on-one and group platforms to support life changes, help resolve trauma, and reset healthy life narratives. She bases her practice on her 8-week empowerment curriculum that restructures power in the help-seeking relationship.
Dr. Bakari graduated from Cornell University in 1984 and went on to earn her Master’s degree from SUNY at the age of 22. She later earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Northern Colorado. Her most recent professional presentation was for the 2021 American Counseling Association Conference, where she presented on Online Advocacy.
In addition to her professional endeavors, she promotes mental wellness through transformational poetry. This year, she also published her sixth book related to empowerment. Her latest book, The Healing Journey: Relationships Health and Wellness, is a radical new book on healing intended to meet people where they are on their healing journey with such topics as “How to heal childhood trauma without forgiving the person who caused it.”
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Disclosure Statement:
The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.
The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.
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