What is Individual Schema Therapy?
Individual schema therapy is an integrative, evidence-based approach that combines cognitive-behavioral, attachment, psychodynamic, and experiential elements to treat long-standing emotional difficulties and deeply rooted patterns. Originally developed by Jeffrey Young, schema therapy focuses on early maladaptive schemas—core emotional themes and beliefs formed in childhood that continue to shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in adulthood.
These schemas often arise from unmet emotional needs or relational trauma and can manifest as chronic anxiety, depression, relationship issues, self-sabotaging behavior, or identity struggles. Rather than simply managing symptoms, schema therapy seeks to identify and heal the underlying emotional wounds that maintain these life patterns.
In individual schema therapy, we work within a structured yet flexible framework to map out your dominant schemas and coping modes.
Through techniques such as empathic confrontation, experiential imagery, and limited reparenting, the therapeutic relationship becomes a corrective emotional experience. The goal is not just insight, but emotional transformation: learning to meet your needs in healthier ways, developing a more integrated sense of self, and fostering long-term psychological well-being.
This approach is particularly helpful for individuals who have not responded to traditional therapies, or who are seeking a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of themselves and their emotional world.
What is Group Schema Therapy?
Group schema therapy is a powerful and highly structured therapeutic format that integrates the core principles of schema therapy into a small group setting. Developed by Arnoud Arntz and colleagues, this approach combines individual schema work with the transformative potential of group dynamics. It is particularly effective for individuals struggling with long-standing interpersonal difficulties, chronic emotional pain, or rigid self-beliefs rooted in early life experiences.
In a schema therapy group, participants explore their maladaptive schemas and coping modes not only with the support of trained therapists, but also within the healing presence of others who face similar struggles. The group becomes a corrective emotional environment where new relational experiences - such as being seen, heard, validated, and safely challenged - can emerge.
Through experiential techniques (like role play, imagery rescripting, and schema mode dialogues), members are encouraged to access and express vulnerable emotions, while learning healthier ways of connecting to themselves and others. Group schema therapy often evokes a deep sense of belonging and shared humanity, allowing participants to work through isolation, shame, and mistrust in a highly supportive atmosphere.
Group schema therapy is suitable for a wide range of emotional and relational difficulties, and often complements individual therapy. It is especially recommended for those who feel stuck in their personal relationships or sense of self, and are ready to experience the healing power of connection.
What is Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT)?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a structured, evidence-based approach to couples therapy that focuses on the emotional bond between partners. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFT is grounded in attachment theory and aims to identify and transform negative relational cycles that keep couples stuck in disconnection, conflict, or emotional distance.
Instead of analyzing communication styles or negotiating compromises, EFT works by helping partners access and express their deeper emotional needs - often hidden beneath anger, silence, or frustration. In a safe and attuned therapeutic space, couples learn to recognize the patterns that keep them apart and begin to reach for each other in new, more secure ways.
The therapist helps guide partners through moments of vulnerability, supports emotional regulation, and facilitates new emotional experiences that build trust, closeness, and safety. Over time, the relationship becomes a place where both partners can feel seen, supported, and emotionally connected.
EFT has been shown to be highly effective across a wide range of relational issues, including conflict, betrayal, loss of intimacy, and long-standing patterns of emotional disconnection. It is especially beneficial for couples who want to move beyond surface-level solutions and build a deeper, more resilient emotional bond.
What is Psychodrama?
Psychodrama is an experiential, action-based form of psychotherapy that helps people explore emotional experiences, inner conflicts, and relationship patterns through guided role play and creative expression. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama invites participants to step into symbolic or real-life situations - past, present, or imagined - and enact them in a safe therapeutic setting.
Instead of only talking about your experiences, psychodrama allows you to experience them again in a new, transformative way. This method can uncover unconscious dynamics, promote emotional release, and foster new insights. Whether you are reworking a painful memory, rehearsing a future situation, or exploring parts of yourself, psychodrama creates space for integration, healing, and change.
At the heart of psychodrama is the group process: others in the group take on roles to support the protagonist’s story, creating a shared, supportive space that can mirror life’s complexity with both depth and compassion. But psychodrama is not only for groups - many of its techniques are also powerful in individual therapy. The method is particularly effective for those who feel stuck in recurring patterns, struggle with unresolved trauma, or wish to reconnect with their emotional truth in a creative, embodied way.