False advertising from Empowering Circle

 

Sept. 7, 2021

Empowering Circle is a self-described spiritual healing/coaching corporation apparently based in Munich, which is a stronghold for Psychology of Vision. The CEO is a self-professed student of Chuck Spezzano. Like many other POV-inspired New Age peddlers their guru is erroneously elevated to the status of "psychologist," a description he does not deserve--

Forgiveness is a timeless tool - emotions, thoughts and inner images work at any age - as the American psychologist Chuck Spezzano explains: "It is never too late to have had a happy childhood".

https://empowering-circle.org/erfullt-leben/

Like most of those who grant this occupational title to Chuck without investigation, I'm sure they didn't know they were spreading a falsehood that seems to be echoed mostly in Europe. We are especially interested why so many followers of POV come away believing Chuck is really a professional psychologist, sometimes he is even called a "clinical psychologist." Who told them these lies?

Spezzano's 1977 Ph.D. was apparently in something exotic called "Professional Psychology" and unique to his now extinct school. One could argue it was about one notch up from a mail-order degree. It was not accredited by the APA, which means his diploma bypassed any sort of national standard. Even in Europe this should disqualify him from being called a "psychologist." Both of the Spezzanos are on record saying Chuck is not a "psychologist."

In addition, Spezzano was fined by the State of Hawaii in 2004 for impersonating a professional. He is not licensed and is not even remotely qualified to practice professional psychology even if he applied. He has NEVER worked as a licensed "psychologist" or published any research in peer-reviewed journals that we can locate. His credentials have been inflated and falsified for decades, starting with his own newspaper advertisements in the 1980s. Here are some links to some primary sources of interest so you can see the evidence:

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/charles-lee-spezzano-ph-d-in_28.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/state-of-hawaii-v-charles-l-spezzano.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/10/honolulu-advertising-clips-from-1980s.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-newspaper-potpourri.html