Do you..
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Start to panic when someone you love leaves, or threaten to leave?
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Find that no one truly understands or gets you?
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Often feel out of place even when you are in a room full of people you love?
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Stop having hope that you will overcome your mental illness one day?
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Find that no matter what achievements you have, you still feel emptiness, loneliness and not good enough?
What is Schema Therapy?
Schemas are an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, behaving and body sensations that shapes how we view ourselves, our loved ones, and the view of the world around us. Chronic frustration of our core emotional needs through absence of nurturance, presence of abuse, trauma, or a lack of limits would potentially cause harm to our mental and emotional well-being.
Schema Therapy aims to meet the core emotional needs of clients in healthy ways through the reparative relationship with the therapist aka ‘Limited Reparenting’ process. The goal is for you to eventually have your emotional needs met both in and outside therapy.
Your therapist will help you to identify unhealthy schemas and coping methods, replace them with healthier patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
Research has found that it is used for the treatment of personality and mood disorders, and particularly useful for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.
