Dr. Joshua L. Cohen, Ph.D., has spent 30+ years developing Film/Video-Based Therapy into a credentialed, evidence-based interdisciplinary framework — with three Routledge/Taylor & Francis books, including a volume cataloged in the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Now he's teaching it directly.
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Methodology guides, session frameworks, and clinical resources drawn directly from Dr. Cohen's published research and 30 years of practice.
A structured route toward FVBT certification — currently in development. Community members get early access and input into the curriculum as it's built.
Dr. Cohen is the pioneer of Film/Video-Based Therapy — a broad interdisciplinary framework spanning how watching films, creating films, narrative construction, identity formation, symbolic processing, embodiment, audience engagement, media technology, virtual reality, collaborative filmmaking, and cultural storytelling can contribute to healing, insight, post-traumatic growth, education, and human development. He holds a Ph.D. and is the only published author on FVBT methodology, with three Routledge/Taylor & Francis books that serve as the field's foundational texts.
His first book, Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy, is cataloged in the U.S. National Library of Medicine — with a foreword by Dr. Cathy Malchiodi, a leading international authority in art therapy, trauma, and expressive arts, and colleague of Bessel van der Kolk. Benjamin Patton — grandson of General George S. Patton Jr. — contributed a chapter, and subsequently conducted peer-reviewed clinical trials with veterans that cited Dr. Cohen's work. PattonVets.org features the book as foundational to their clinical research program.
Books 2 and 3 both carry forewords by Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality at USC ICT and a world leader in VR for clinical treatment and rehabilitation. This is not a certification mill or a curated course library. You're learning directly from the clinician who built the methodology.
The foundational interdisciplinary text establishing FVBT as a named clinical and scholarly framework — cataloged in the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM ID: 101641447). Chapter by Benjamin Patton (grandson of General George S. Patton Jr.); cited in veteran peer-reviewed clinical research. Featured on PattonVets.org.
Advanced trauma-informed clinical framework for FVBT applications across populations, with case material, outcome frameworks, and practitioner guidance for complex presentations. Foreword by Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo (USC ICT), world leader in VR for clinical rehabilitation.
Integrates post-traumatic growth theory with FVBT methodology. Includes updated clinical research and expanded application protocols across individual, group, and community settings.
"One person's kind words and reassurance could change another person's life, which could have a ripple effect on the world."
— Dr. Joshua L. Cohen
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What FVBT actually is — and why it's a broader framework than cinematherapy, therapeutic filmmaking, or expressive arts. The clinical mechanisms, the 3 Routledge books, and how to get trained. Written for licensed clinicians evaluating the modality.
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