Schema Therapy for Shame and Guild Based Difficulties

Schema Therapy for Shame and Guild Based Difficulties 

By: Janis Briedis and Helen Startup
Online - Zoom

9:30am - 4:30pm (UK Time) on 27th & 28th March 2025

Registration - Website: www.schematherapyschool.co.uk

Workshop Description:

Individuals who endure early life trauma may go on to experience disruption in the coherence and continuity of their sense of self, and may have shame and guilt at the core of their selves. In Schema Therapy we conceptualize these clients via a mode map as having overpowering Punitive, Guilt-inducing and Invalidating Critic modes. For these clients’ their Vulnerable Child part may be ‘fused’ to a highly forceful inner Critic, giving rise to a core sense of defectiveness, dissociated states, and a tendency to switch between harmful coping strategies, leaving basic emotional needs unmet at core level. This workshop is designed for therapists with knowledge of schema theory and therapy and experience of working therapeutically with clients who have endured trauma. This workshop is highly specialised and aims to support therapists to conceptualise shame and guilt in the context of complex trauma presentations and to support these individuals to safely and effectively engage in the therapeutic process.

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Fee: £290.00 (TIER 1), EUR240.00 (TIER 2)