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Strengthening Healthy Adult in Schema Therapy

  • 11 Apr 2025
  • 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Online - Zoom

Strengthening Healthy Adult

in Schema Therapy  

By: Helen Startup and Janis Briedis
Online - Zoom

9:30am - 4:30pm (UK Time) on 11th April 2025


Registration - Website: www.schematherapyschool.co.uk


Workshop Description:

The Healthy Adult is often positioned as an ‘essential’ feature of the self with its development being a principal goal of Schema Therapy. However, in many ways the Healthy Adult is poorly articulated and understood both in terms of its content and process features. This workshop will focus on elaborating a clear working definition of the Healthy Adult in schema therapy, that is contrasted with overlapping constructs across other therapies (such as the Wise Mind in DBT, Compassionate Self in CFT). We will then propose methods to build and harness this essential part of the self to support maximum growth through schema therapy.


During this one day masterclass, delegates will:

  • Learn about the critical importance or ‘meta’ role of the Healthy Adult in managing and overseeing self-organisation.
  • Creatively use imagery and body-focused strategies to build the Heathy Adult where there may have been little chance for Healthy Adult development.
  • Use Chair work to place the Healthy Adult in the ‘driving seat’ and to ‘dial down’ reliance on coping modes and the influence of the Critic.
  • Explore the use of Positive Schemas in the development of the Healthy Adult mode.
  • Discover cognitive techniques to bolster a Healthy Adult and to support mentalisation where there is fragmentation of the self.
  • Use somatic techniques and transitional objects to foster a deeper connection between the Healthy Adult and the needs of a fragile Vulnerable Child part.
  • Learn how to integrate creative methods such as the use of toys, puppets and craft to support playful development and integration of a Healthy Adult.
  • Therapists will learn about their own contribution to ‘schema chemistry’ and will learn strategies for staying within their own Healthy Adult at times of clinical challenge and rupture.

This will be a lively and experiential workshop with video demonstrations of techniques and opportunities to practice under supervision


Fee: £160.00 (TIER 1), EUR120 (TIER 2)

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International Society of Schema Therapy e.V. is a not-for-profit organization, Germany


Why Schema Therapy?

Schema therapy has been extensively researched to effectively treat a wide variety of typically treatment resistant conditions, including Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Read our summary of the latest research comparing the dramatic results of schema therapy compared to other standard models of psychotherapy.

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