Schema Therapy

Schema therapy (schema-focused cognitive therapy) works on the principal that long-standing negative patterns or beliefs or themes ‘schemas’ often begin early in our life. Examples of negative patterns or beliefs that individuals often live with from an early age are feelings of abandonment, underdevelopment or pessimism.

Schema therapy combines elements of cognitive, behavioural, attachment, psychodynamic and gestalt models, making it an integrative mechanism of assisting these individuals.