Working with Anger from a Schema Therapy Perspective During the Perinatal Period

Working with Anger from a Schema Therapy Perspective During the Perinatal Period

By: Dr. Helen Startup and Dr. Cathy Green

16th - 17th October, 2025 (Online)
(9:30am - 4:00pm UK Time)

Registration - To book please email: ljvirtual@laurasoffice.co.uk
Or for further information visit: www.schematherapyschool.co.uk

Workshop Description:

The transition to parenthood is emotionally charged and can dysregulate even the most emotionally resilient of individuals. Feelings of anger and rage are a common experience as people attempt to navigate the intense demands of their new role, relationships and responsibilities. Yet because these feelings clash with society’s idealised vision of the ‘all and only loving’ parent they can be difficult to tolerate and manage.

Schema therapy acknowledges the richness of anger, its multifaceted functions and origins, and its enormous healing potential. In schema therapy terms anger can emanate from several different ‘modes’, most notably: the bully attack, angry protector, and angry child modes. Working with anger requires the therapist to first make an accurate assessment of the ‘mode in action’, as well as to identify and attune to the unmet need unpinning the mode. The therapist might then work directly with a ‘part of the self’ that is either overwhelmed by anger or overshadowed by anger.

During this highly interactive workshop participants will learn how to disentangle the various expressions of anger within a perinatal context, to link these to core modes and schemas, convert unproductive or destructive anger to constructive assertiveness and support seeking, as well as to use their own emotional reactions to their clients’ anger to hone the conceptualisation.

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For details please see: Working with Anger from a Schema Therapy Perspective During the Perinatal Period - Schema Therapy School