Schema Therapy

This is my passion! I have developed curriculum using Schema interventions in multiple treatment centers and my courses are still being used years later because they work! I've extensively studied this modality and have trained many others on how to understand the Schemas. Everyone can benefit from understanding how they view the world, and I'll assist you with understanding your own schemas and how they may be helping or harming you.

Schema therapy helps clients identify what thoughts and beliefs they have that are helpful, and unhelpful, and might be negatively affecting their life. This approach helps clients work with their strengths and accept the things they can control and change.

I am extensively trained in Schema Therapy, which has been shown to be effective with personality disorders and chronic emotional disorders. Schema Therapy involves looking at unmet needs in early childhood that led to maladaptive core beliefs, and how those core beliefs are negatively impacting the present. Schema Therapy aims to change core beliefs into more effective ones to accomplish current goals and enjoy life in general.

Schema therapy goes beyond surface-level symptoms to uncover the root causes of your struggles. It helps you identify deeply ingrained negative patterns that have been holding you back, often since childhood. By understanding where these patterns originate, you gain insights that empower you to create lasting change.

With the application of Schema Therapy, one can help to better understand the "frame of lens" through which the see the world. Part of treatment will be to identify what specific schema(s) you have developed and how they impact your day to day functioning. This form of therapeutic intervention gives you the ability to build better insight and understanding about yourself and the way you interact with your environment. Which in turns helps you to approach life challenges more effectively.

Schema therapy integrates elements of cognitive-behavioral, attachment, and emotion-focused approaches to help clients identify and heal deep-rooted patterns, or schemas, formed early in life. These schemas often arise from unmet emotional needs and can influence self-perception and relationships. I use this approach to help clients recognize these patterns, understand their origins, and develop healthier coping strategies. If you’re ready to break free from these cycles, I’m here to guide you.

The aim of Schema Therapy is to help people develop healthy ways of getting needs met. It is an integrative therapy and highly personalized. Schema therapy focuses on identifying and changing deeply ingrained negative patterns of thinking and behavior that lead to difficulties in relationships and emotional well-being. It combines third wave behavior therapies, attachment therapy, gestalt work, and developmental psychology.

Schema therapy has fast become my favorite method of understanding and working through problem areas. Generally speaking, schema therapy provides us a framework for understanding how early life experiences influence the beliefs we carry about ourselves, our relationships and the world. Most often we're dealing with the schemas that have become rigid, distorted and maladaptive over time, and are getting in the way of feeling happy, safe and satisfied with our lives. Check out schematherapy.com!

I am trained in Schema Therapy and help people do the deep experiential work to heal their schemas and modes. Schema Therapy is depth therapy that was developed for people who didn't respond to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and needed something deeper and more effective.