My practice
Schema therapy explores long-standing patterns that still shape emotions, behaviour and relationships. Understanding their origins and present impact helps outdated responses evolve and new ways of responding take shape.
A visual guide
An old schema can shape how we read a current situation and keep a pattern going.
My needs
Recognising and responding to them
An event touches a sensitive point.
An old belief about myself or others returns.
Fear, shame, sadness or anger may emerge.
I give in, avoid or try to control everything.
My response can leave my needs unmet.
The experience seems to confirm the original belief.
An everyday example
Someone close is less available. An abandonment schema may be activated: “People always leave me.” Fear may lead to repeated reassurance-seeking or withdrawing before being hurt.
We explore the schema, the situations that activate it and the needs it reveals. This helps develop responses that take account of the actual situation, rather than only an old fear.
Schema therapy
Schema therapy explores the patterns that form over the course of a life, particularly in childhood, and that continue to influence emotions, behaviours or relationships. By identifying their origin and their impact in the present, it allows outdated patterns to evolve and new, more adapted bearings to gradually take hold.
First step
The first session is a meeting: understanding what brings you here, answering your questions and deciding together whether this is the right fit.
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