This approach focuses on understanding and addressing negative life schemas and beliefs that develop in early childhood and affect the client’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is an evidence-based protocol gaining increasing use in modern times. Contemporary schema therapy incorporates elements of cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, emotion-focused, psychodynamic approaches, creative therapy, and attachment theory.
Cases in which it is used/effective:
Depression, anxiety disorders,
Personality disorders
Other chronic psychological problems.
Specialists working with this method: