Schema therapy

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Do you find that you may overact to a situation often within a relationship?

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Have you pushed people away, avoided others in close relationships or have you been unable to contain your emotions when you have felt hurt, let down or rejected?

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Have you noticed a pattern of behaviour in relationships and how you might surrender your needs to appease others?

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Do you find yourself acting superior or overcompensating putting on a front to protect how you really feel?

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Have you used unhelpful ways to cope and detach yourself from your feelings such as binge eating, gambling or drinking?

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Schema therapy is an integrative approach to working with long term patterns of behaviour that have been learnt often from difficult childhood experiences. Schema's being an emotional blueprint how we might view the world learnt from these early experiences when some of our basic childhood needs were not met. These early maladaptive schema's can be triggered by seemingly trivial but related events as an adult, that can make us resort to unhelpful ways of coping to manage these difficult feelings and thus a pattern of behaviour. In this approach we will help you emotional heal the past events, recognise the patterns of behaviour and work towards getting your needs met as a healthy adult and not like a vulnerable child.

This is a long term approach for clients who have had long standing difficulties and often complex pasts, please inquire for more information.

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