WORKING WITH SHAME AND GUILT FROM A SCHEMA THERAPY PERSPECTIVE by Dr Helen Startup and Janis Briedis

WORKING WITH SHAME AND GUILT
FROM A SCHEMA THERAPY PERSPECTIVE

Two-day workshop: 6-7^th November, 2019
The BPS, 30 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4UE, United Kingdom

with Dr Helen Startup and Janis Briedis, Applied Psychologists

Guilt and shame are complex emotional reactions associated with a wide range of presentations, notably depression, eating disorders, complex grief, anxiety, obsessionality, complex trauma, dissociation and personality disorder.  Schema therapy is an integrative, person-centred approach that offers a way of conceptualising and working with these complex emotions that is containing and yet effective at evoking relatively quick change at an emotional level. 

During this two-day workshop we will support delegates to identify and conceptualise guilt and shame within the framework of a schema mode formulation, drawing on multiple clinical case examples. We will guide delegates to practice imagery re-scripting, chair work and other specific techniques tailored to address guilt and shame.  We will consider the role of guilt and shame in complex trauma, including the integration of body-focused techniques to identify and target trauma reactions encoded at a non-verbal level.  We will also draw on compassion-focused methods to compliment the standard schema therapy approach. This is a highly experiential workshop, brought to life by live role play demonstrations and original video materials.

Workshop Aims:

• To recognise shame and guilt reactions and to conceptualise them via a schema mode formulation, focusing largely on the relationships between Punitive, Guilt-inducing and Invalidating Critic modes, in relation to Coping modes and Child mode.
• To consider specifically the differing conceptualisations of shame and guilt across presentations of: depression, eating disorders, anxiety, obsessionality, complex trauma, dissociation and personality disorder.
• To learn about chair techniques and imagery methods to directly target shame and guilt.
• To integrate body-focussed techniques drawing on strategies from sensorimotor psychotherapy  as well as compassion-focused methods to support the development of a strong, compassionate and assertive Healthy Adult mode

TRAINERS:

Dr Helen Startup is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.  She is co-lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies for the Sussex Eating Disorders Service. She is a founder and co-director of the Sussex Parenting Clinic which is a recently commissioned service set up to support the parenting needs of adults who are seeking help for their own mental health difficulties.  Helen is an accredited CBT therapist/supervisor and Schema Therapy Supervisor and Trainer, and is passionate about improving outcomes for those with complex mental health needs. 

Janis Briedis is a Counselling Psychologist and Schema Therapy Supervisor and Trainer, working in private practice in London and having worked in a complex case service in the NHS for over a decade. He is a trained CBT, EMDR, compassion-focussed and sensorimotor therapist working with complex cases. Janis has taught Schema Therapy, CBT, trauma-focussed approaches and mindfulness in the NHS as well as the academic setting, and is a visiting lecturer at a number of universities in the UK.

For more details see: www.schematherapyschool.co.uk

Email: info@schematherapyschool.co.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 77 3493 1562 (Janis Briedis)