Healing the Roots of Long-Standing Patterns

Schema Therapy combines elements of CBT, Gestalt, person-centred, and psychoanalytic approaches. At its core, it focuses on identifying and transforming early maladaptive schemas—deep emotional patterns and beliefs that develop during childhood or adolescence and continue to shape how we view ourselves, others, and the world.

These schemas often operate beneath the surface, triggering overwhelming emotions, negative thoughts, and unhelpful coping strategies. Schema Therapy brings these patterns into awareness and offers a clear, structured path toward emotional healing and lasting change.

Key Features of Schema Therapy

Schema Identification
Together, we uncover the core emotional themes and beliefs, such as abandonment, mistrust, defectiveness, failure, or emotional deprivation, that have shaped your experiences.

Mode Work
We work with schema modes, the moment-to-moment emotional states and coping responses that can include avoidance, people-pleasing, detachment, self-criticism, or child-like vulnerability. Understanding and transforming these modes, while at the same time strengthening  the wise, resilient, and compassionate part of you, is a central part of the process.

Corrective Emotional Experiences
The therapeutic relationship provides a reparative space where unmet emotional needs from early life can finally be recognised and met, offering new experiences of safety, trust, and acceptance.

Schema Therapy can be helpful for

Originally developed to treat personality disorders, such as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), Schema Therapy has since been shown to be effective for a wide range of issues, including:

• Chronic anxiety or depression
• Relationship difficulties and insecure attachment
• Low self-esteem and perfectionism
• Emotional dysregulation
• Unresolved childhood trauma