Schema Therapy for Individuals & Relationships

Schema Therapy

Understanding the Deeper Beliefs Beneath Your Patterns

Schema Therapy helps us look beneath the surface — into the early beliefs and emotional themes that took shape in childhood, often when important needs weren’t fully met. Needs like safety, stability, being soothed after a rupture, room for play, or the freedom to express ourselves and still feel loved.

These early experiences form “schemas,” the deeply held patterns that can quietly shape how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we move through the world as adults.

In our work together, we’ll slowly and compassionately uncover these patterns and meet the protective parts of you that have worked so hard to keep you safe. These parts weren’t wrong — they were ingenious adaptations to what you lived through. But sometimes the very strategies that once protected you can now keep you feeling stuck, guarded, or weighed down.

As we explore this inner landscape, we’ll begin to build a steadier sense of safety and self-kindness. This is where a gentle form of reparenting can emerge — learning to relate to yourself in ways that are more supportive, soothing, and nurturing than what may have been available to you growing up.

Over time, you may notice a softening: less harsh self-criticism, more space for difficult emotions, and a gradual reconnection with qualities like curiosity, spontaneity, playfulness, and joy — parts of you that may have felt far away for a long time.