Schema Therapy

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.

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.

I practice Schema Therapy to supplement CBT with a focus on attachment-based theory and experiential Gestalt theory.

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!

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 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.

We learn rules for how the world works when we're young. These rules (schemas) help to keep us safe as we navigate the world. The trouble is, schemas don't update easily. We learned that someone's anger was dangerous, when we were little and know that anger won't hurt us as an adult. A deep, essential part of us holds on to the original lesson and we react as if we were still quite young. Schema therapy helps to update the very old beliefs that we have about what's safe and what isn't.

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.

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 is a Cognitive Behavioral Model that focuses on helping client meet their psychological needs. As children, when our needs go unmet, we experience pain. We then develop ways of coping with that pain that can last throughout our lives. Schema Therapy helps clients understand their needs, pain, and coping patterns. This healing allows for new ways of being that get our needs met.

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.