What is schema therapy?
Schema therapy focuses on identifying and changing deeply ingrained patterns or "schemas" that develop early in life and influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors throughout adulthood.
Schema therapy enables changes when you feel hopeless about your self-destructive patterns, beliefs, because these problematic behaviors, beliefs seem so entrenched that they appear to be part of your very identity.
Learn to recognize which schemas and problematic coping styles affect you the most, understand where these schemas originated and learn how to make lasting changes.
What are schemas?
Schemas are enduring negative patterns, beliefs, feelings about oneself that developed during childhood, adolescence and continue throughout a person’s life. One views the world through one’s schemas. Schemas are so firmly rooted that the person accepts them without question.
Schemas can lead to low self-esteem, difficulties connecting to others, problems expressing needs, unsatisfying life choices.
Why use Schema Therapy?