Overview

Course Overview: Inside the Room: The Schema Therapy Sessions - produced by Chris Hayes & Rob Brockman - represents 14-hours of CPD offering 12 full-length schema therapy sessions with three clients (actors) and four accredited (advanced-level) schema therapists. The video series and related course materials provided an authentic view of schema therapy in practice, including work with modes, limited reparenting, experiential techniques, and empathic confrontation. Designed for trainees and practitioners, it offers a rare opportunity to observe the process of schema therapy in depth and to reflect on therapeutic stance, interventions, and the unfolding of change in session. Features Sessions by ISST Certified Schema Therapists (Advanced) Chris Hayes, Rob Brockman, Claudia Mendez, and Sarah Hartley. Gives a close up look at how schema therapy sessions might unfold across a whole session with a range of therapists that vary slightly in terms of their own therapist 'style'. Features sessions with hard-to-reach clients with strong coping modes including detached protector, overcompensator (dominance), and pseudo-vulnerability coping modes.

Who this video series is designed for: Therapists who are already practicing Schema Therapy and/or those therapists who are currently engaged in Schema Therapy Training. This video series is not designed to replace foundational schema therapy training rather to enhance it by providing clear examples of complete sessions across multiple client contexts and techniques.

14-Hours Certificate Provided: This video series resource comes with therapist reflective material that in total represents 14-hours of CPD. A PDF Certificate for 14-hours will be provided on completion of all videos - representing great value.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate Applied Understanding of Schema Mode Work in Live Therapy Contexts: Participants will be able to identify, name, and track shifts between schema modes in-session, recognising both overt and subtle manifestations of child, coping, critic, and Healthy Adult modes, and apply interventions that foster mode awareness and integration across the therapy process.
2. Analyse and Reflect on the Use of Limited Reparenting in Complex Presentations: Participants will critically observe how advanced schema therapists balance warmth, attunement, and boundary-setting through limited reparenting, adapting their stance to clients presenting with strong coping modes such as the Detached Protector, Overcontroller, or Pseudo-Vulnerability.
3. Evaluate Therapist Use of Empathic Confrontation and Limit-Setting Techniques: Participants will be able to articulate and model the principles of empathic confrontation—being both compassionate and direct—in managing challenging in-session behaviours and reinforcing reciprocal respect within the therapeutic relationship.
4. Integrate Experiential Techniques to Facilitate Schema Healing: Participants will observe and evaluate the timing, pacing, and therapeutic intention behind experiential interventions (e.g., chair work, imagery rescripting, mode dialogues), identifying how these are used to meet core emotional needs and repair schema-driven narratives in real time.
5. Develop Reflective Awareness of Therapist Schema Activation and Stance: Participants will cultivate self-reflective awareness of their own schema triggers, emotional responses, and coping modes during client interactions, and identify strategies to maintain a Healthy Therapist Mode characterised by attunement, curiosity, and emotional regulation.

Presenter(s)

Chris Hayes (Clinical Psychologist) & Rob Brockman (Clinical Psychologist)

About the presenter(s)

Chris & Rob are co-authors of the Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy. Published in June, 2023. Chris Hayes is a Clinical Psychologist and Schema Therapy Trainer based in Perth. He has had extensive experience in both government and private settings working with clients with complex psychological presentations. Since 2005, he has been practising as an Advanced Schema Therapist, supervisor and trainer, having completed certification in Schema Therapy at the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City (USA) with Dr Jeffery Young. He has presented workshops throughout Europe, Asia and Australasia. He is the Director of Schema Therapy Training Australia. In addition to the provision of Schema Therapy training and supervision, he is currently employed with the Health Department of Western Australia as a Senior Clinical Psychologist (within a specialist service working with those who have experienced recent or childhood sexual trauma). He has written extensively in schema therapy and co-produced 2 DVD/ video releases, "Fine Tuning Imagery Rescripting" and "Fine Tuning Chair Work in Schema Therapy" (the 1st of their kind internationally).
Robert is a Sydney based clinical psychologist and current president of the ISST (International Society of Schema Therapy). Rob has extensive experience teaching on Clinical Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of Technology). Since 2014, Rob has regularly provided Schema Therapy Training events across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and South-East Asia, and has trained over 2000 therapists in the schema therapy approach

Notes

Also available through Schema Mastery Plus+ membership: https://courses.schematherapytrainingonline.com/p/schema-therapy-mastery-plus

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