Schema therapy's goal is to teach a quality of awareness to interpret information and solve problems by providing an organizing model of the thoughts and behaviors unique to us. Without restructured awareness of early experience that Schema therapy can provide, we think, feel, act, and relate to others paradoxically leading us to recreate in our adult lives the conditions of childhood that were most hurtful to us. Our Schemas continue to influence us and become our "buttons" or "triggers" that leave us feeling sad, angry, depressed, or anxious as adults. Seemingly insignificant things create emotional havoc for us.

Since we've learned consistency equals comfort, to give up schemas can be like giving up a sense of ourselves and our identity, even though it hurts us to keep using them. Although it may look to others as if we have everything, when our schemas control us, we are unable to appreciate ourselves, our accomplishments, and our lives. By having compartments that help us make sense of our early memories, emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts, and coping styles we learn to recognize how our reactions perpetuate our schemas and our emotional pain. Schema therapy’s comprehensive model of schemas provides an antidote to gain control, once-and-for-all, over the maladaptive thoughts and behaviors helping people pursue an emotionally fulfilling life. Please contact us for more information about Schema Therapy.