Schema therapy is an integrative evidence based psychological approach for working with longstanding and complex mental health problems arising from difficult childhood experiences. It integrates theory and techniques from other therapeutic approaches, including person-centred, emotion-focused, object relations, gestalt, psychodrama, and psychodynamic modalities.

Schema therapy is a needs based model which highlights that every child has a set of emotional needs that need to be met in order for them to go on to develop as psychologically healthy adults. If these needs are not met, the child may develop maladaptive ways of relating to the self, others and the world. Schema therapy aims to support clients from an attuned and warm therapeutic stance offering a range of cognitive, relational and experiential interventions.

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