Schema Therapy

Schema therapy integrates chair work,imagery, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma processing and the psychoanalytic focus on the client's emotional experiences during therapy. Schemas are 'life patterns' based on limiting and trauma-driven beliefs. Schemas often originated in traumatic or painful early life experiences and were a way for a person to make sense of what was happening.at the time. These negative belief systems, originally designed to be protective, end up holding people back from positive experiences and can result in repeating cycles of trauma and dysfunction.