Schema Therapy 2-Practitioner Course

Explore psychotherapy, coaching, counseling, and self-improvement to understand differences in seriousness of illness, therapy duration, and the role of personal growth and self-help.

Cultivate personal growth by directing time, resources, and information, applying techniques suited to you, whether in therapy, coaching, or self-help, for lasting change.

Explore how the therapist–client relationship drives therapy success, including working alliance, here-and-now awareness, and client-directed dynamics. See how schema therapy integrates cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, and phenomenological techniques.

Learn how internal factors such as intelligence, motivation, personality, and placebo shape self-improvement, including emotional and social intelligence, while recognizing external heritage, environment, and resources.

Explore how heritage, environment, and resources shape self-improvement, and trace cognitive therapy from behaviorism to schema therapy and third-wave approaches like psychodynamic, spirituality, and Gestalt.

Join the practicum for chapter two of schema therapy to rate internal and external factors, compare psychotherapy and self-help, and apply cognitive restructuring with actionable steps and follow-up.

Explore the abc's of schema therapy, including schemas, modes, and needs, and how unmet childhood needs trigger cognitive and emotional patterns, self-defeating behaviors, and maladaptive coping.

Explore schema therapy's three coping modes—surrender, avoidance, and overcompensation—and learn how they map to schema modes through real-life stories and exercises for recognition and change.

Identify coping mechanisms: avoidance, surrender, and overcompensation, with self-reflective questions and worksheets to understand feelings, behaviors, and how to address them.

Identify and change coping modes—overcompensation, surrender, and avoidance—through a simple worksheet and self-reflective questions. Explore triggers and origins, then choose healthy alternatives and practice the empty chair and psychodrama.

Identify unhealthy coping mechanisms—surrender, avoidance, overcompensation—and build healthier alternatives through awareness and interventions like flashcards and psychodrama.

Explore the disconnection and rejection domain, focusing on the four live traps and their roots from birth to 18 months, shaping early trust and bonding.

Explore the impaired autonomy domain in schema therapy, detailing traps of dependency, incompetence, vulnerability to harm, and undeveloped self shaped by a critical, guilt-inducing environment.

Explore the domain of impaired limits in schema therapy, including entitlement, grandiosity, lifetrap, and lack of self-control, and how poor boundaries shape narcissistic tendencies.

Explore the other directedness domain in schema therapy, detailing live traps like subjugation, self-sacrifice, and approval seeking shaped by authoritarian parenting and the need for approval.

Examine hypervigilance and inhibition as life traps rooted in prenatal influences, map nervous system patterns, and outline body-oriented psychotherapy to reduce these traits to a manageable level.

Examine how unmet childhood needs form early maladaptive schemas across five domains, including disconnection and rejection and impaired autonomy, with living traps like abandonment, mistrust, and emotional deprivation.

Identify live traps and coping modes in schema therapy through Tommy's self-sacrifice and surrender. Analyze life traps and determine central therapeutic focus and self-improvement steps.

Explore coping mechanisms beyond surrender and avoidance, identify life traps like emotional inhibition, self-sacrifice, and emotional deprivation, and apply cognitive restructuring and Gestalt self-dialogue.

Explore how schemas are stable, lifelong patterns shaping perception, motivation, and emotion as internal maps of reality. Examine life traps tied to unmet developmental needs (care, autonomy, limits, freedom, spontaneity).

Explore five lifetraps in the disconnection and rejection domain—abandonment, emotional deprivation, mistrust and abuse, social isolation, and defectiveness or shame—and how early needs influence perceived instability, emptiness, and alienation.

Explore impaired autonomy lifetraps, including dependency or incompetency, vulnerability, undeveloped self (enmeshment), and failure, and learn how beliefs shape daily responsibilities and self-worth.

Explore impaired limits lifetraps, focusing on entitlement and its subtypes—impulsive, spoiled, and dependent—and how lack of self-control and self-discipline drives overindulgence.

This lesson explains the fourth cluster of other-directed schemas: subjugation, self-sacrifice, and approval seeking, with subtypes of needs and emotions, and how guilt from controlling parents shapes behavior.

Examine hypervigilance and inhibition lifetraps—punitiveness, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards, and pessimism—and how childhood dynamics shape harsh self-criticism, perfectionism, and chronic worry.

Practicum five guides students through the 18 life traps across five childhood needs domains, using a detailed questionnaire to form core beliefs and rational responses for healthier relationships.

Explore dysfunctional parent and child modes in schema therapy, tracing origins from developmental and psychodynamic influences. Use CBT techniques and self-reflecting questions to examine states and body sensations for change.

Examine dysfunctional parent modes—guilt induced, punitive, demanding, and mixed—linked to the superego, scripts, life traps, and triggers from parental demands and vicarious learning.

Explore the dysfunctional child modes, including the vulnerable child and impulsive child, their live traps, triggering dynamics, associated emotions, and the development of a happy, balanced child for treatment planning.

Explore modes flipping among child modes, coping modes, critic mode, and parent mode, and learn to replace maladaptive coping by nurturing the happy child and expressing emotions healthily.

Outline a road map for changing dysfunctional modes in schema therapy. Identify parental messages, replace maladaptive coping, and use reparenting, cognitive disputation, and imagery to cultivate the happy child.

Identify and change dysfunctional coping modes—surrender, avoidance, or overcompensation—through self-reflection, feedback, exposure to new contexts, and a five-column worksheet, then apply active bridge and imagery to build healthy adult responses.

Master anger management by observing early signals, identifying trigger points, and postponing automatic reactions to express calmly; use breaks, anger jars, calming symbols, and guided imagination.

Explore anger management and changing the vulnerable child mode by identifying unmet needs, setting boundaries, and using psychodrama, imagery, and body-based therapies to heal the inner child.

strengthen your inner child through self-dialogue, mirror work, guided imagery, journaling, and self-inquiry, while learning awareness, body-emotion reconnection, and nourishing inner child healing.

Explore six criteria that distinguish a healthy adult from an unhealthy one, including self-discipline, motivation and task completion, balanced self-criticism, measured pleasure, assertive expression, and emotional control.

Identify the features of a healthy adult, including healthy ego functioning, realistic judgment, assertive emotion expression, balanced needs, and reliable commitments, with rational problem solving and emotional stability.

Strengthen the happy child and healthy adult together through integrative schema therapy, balancing past inner child, present adult, and future super-ego, using behavior experiments, imaginative exercises, and smart goals.

Explore primarily cognitive interventions in schema therapy to recognize dysfunctional beliefs fueling anger and vulnerability, use abc analysis and disputation to reform core beliefs, life traps, and schemas.

Apply behavioral pattern breaking interventions to recognize choices and develop healthy actions, balancing freedom with responsibility through reparenting, role play, empty chair, and behavioral experiments to transform dysfunctional child modes.

Explore emotionally focused interventions to heal the angry child through anger venting, limited reparenting, and warm social support. Practice imagery rescripting, Gestalt techniques, and journaling tools like the critique jar.

Explore emotional alchemy and mindfulness in schema therapy by practicing awareness, observing actions, and staying present with intense emotions to observe the observer within and transform patterns.

Explore emotional alchemy through mindfulness, recognize the root of suffering, and transmute emotional frequencies to free yourself from pain; cultivate reflective awareness to choose actions.

Explore three mode types, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral, and three patterns of mode flipping, plus a five-column worksheet to connect triggers and unmet childhood needs to healthier adult responses.

Connect trigger points to unmet needs to deepen self-work beyond the ABC model of REBT, using awareness to shift beliefs and prepare for behavioral experiments.

Learn practical behavioral experiments in schema therapy, including the exaggeration technique, mirror and psychodrama exercises, guided imagery, and absolute acceptance principles to observe and reshape emotional responses.

Heal vulnerable child using guided imagination, inner-child visualization, and letter writing, including rescripting options, room-based visualization, dominant emotion awareness, and empty-chair techniques.

Promote and strengthen the healthy adult by guiding learners to set smart goals using specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound criteria, plus priority quadrants and meaningful measurements.

Examine the change exercise by describing the target change in smart terms, reviewing feedback, and deciding what can be changed versus accepted to guide intrinsic motivation and therapy.

Apply this final lesson’s schema therapy map: reparent the vulnerable child, recognize dysfunctional coping, and use behavioral modification. Cognitive interventions and boundary setting help cultivate a healthy adult.

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