Schema Therapy

About this event

Dr Susan Simpson presents 12 hours of live in-person online training in Schema Therapy via Zoom

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This training will provide an opportunity to learn powerful techniques for working with people with eating disorders including those with high complexity and comorbidity (e.g. OCD, rigid personality traits, PTSD). This workshop will provide training in implementing techniques for working with entrenched early maladaptive schemas (including core beliefs) with individuals with eating disorders and comorbidity.

The workshop will provide participants with practical experience and guidance in the use of imagery, chair work and other techniques for change. Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate experiential change techniques. Training will specifically include working with vulnerable [child] modes, limited reparenting skills, bypassing avoidant or over-compensatory coping modes, and fighting punitive (self-critical) or guilt inducing thinking patterns that drive eating disorder behaviours.

Learning outcomes:

• How to recognise and work with schema modes relevant to people with eating disorders.

• How to conceptualise clients’ eating disorder symptoms & comorbidities using a schema mode map

• How to apply cognitive, experiential, and interpersonal strategies for change, including chairwork and Imagery Rescripting, with an emphasis on deeper level change with core beliefs/schemas