Therapeutic Approach

Schema Therapy

Schema Therapy blends cognitive behavioural, attachment, and psychodynamic ideas to help you identify and shift deeply ingrained patterns, or 'schemas,' that often started in childhood and are still shaping your thoughts, behaviours, and relationships. It goes a layer deeper than typical CBT to work with the long-standing themes behind a pattern, not just the pattern itself.

Schema Therapy helps you identify and shift deeply ingrained patterns that started in childhood and still shape your current thoughts, behaviours, and relationships.

WHAT IT TREATS / WHO IT'S FOR

It's often used for long-standing relationship difficulties, chronic low self-worth, and patterns that haven't shifted with shorter-term approaches. It's available virtually across Canada through Shift Collab.

RESEARCH EVIDENCE

Schema Therapy that combined individual and group sessions helped adults with borderline personality disorder more than usual care in a large trial, and more people stayed in treatment. For you, that means deep-rooted patterns can shift with steady support.

View study on PubMed

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