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Workshop 1: The Model, Method & Techniques

  • 19 Mar 2026
  • 8:00 AM
  • 27 Mar 2026
  • 12:00 PM
  • Zoom Online

Part 1: Introduction to Schema Therapy

Core Concepts: Understanding Schema Modes, Coping Behaviours, and Schemas. Application: Conceptualizing Problems and defining Therapeutic Goals using Mode Mapping.

Day 1 : 19/03/26
Day 2 : 20/03/26
Time (UK) : 8am to 12 noon each morning

Part 2: The Therapeutic Relationship: Utilizing Limited Reparenting and Empathic Confrontation.
Mode Work: Addressing Unhealthy Coping Modes.
Working specifically with the Critic Mode.
Day 1: 26/03/26
Day 2: 27/03/26
Time (UK) : 8am to 12 noon each morning

This 16 Hour Workshop made up of 4 mornings, will help participants gain a good working knowledge of both the Schema Model and Mode Model.

The workshop contributes 16 hours towards Schema Certification for those wishing to pursue this route. ( NB: Criteria apply for certification - please contact us)

Book this workshop - https://schematherapywales.co.uk/product/workshop-1-the-model-method-techniques-full-course/


Learning Outcomes and objectives:
Participants will be able to:

  • Convey the schema approach to clients
  • Identify and educate the client about their central life problems and unmet core needs
  • Formulate and conceptualise complex cases in terms of schema activation (including coping styles and responses) and schema modes.
  • Utilise the Young Schema Questionnaire, Young Parenting inventory, Young Compensatory Inventory & the Schema Mode Inventory
  • Work meaningfully within the therapeutic relationship during both the assessment and change phases.
  • Understand and apply the key components of schema therapies such as limited reparenting and empathic confrontation in order to heal schemas.
  • Use chair work and imagery experiential strategies for assessment and change
  • Use mode work to bypass unhealthy coping modes
  • Use mode work to tackle the Punitive Critic and Demanding Critic Modes
  • Use mode work to identify and provide limited reparenting to the vulnerable child mode
  • Know their own schemas and their influence in treatment, as well as ways to respond to one’s own schema activation during the therapeutic encounter.
  • Understand and utilise cognitive (flashcards & diary cards) and behavioural components in effective treatments
  • Apply pattern breaking techniques

Schema Therapy Wales is an ISST approved certification training program in Individual Schema Therapy. It provides workshops for anyone wishing to gain schema certification as well as stand alone workshops for all mental health professionals wishing to learn more about schema therapy.

Schema Training Director: Mandy Walsh (Schema Therapy Wales)
Schema Trainer: Dr Anastasiya Lovegrove

Please feel free to contact Mandy Walsh on 07846972824 or Anastasiya on 07778268172 if you have any questions 
or email Mandy Walsh

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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