Course Dates: November 14th, 15th & 18th (2024)

Overview: This 3-day online workshop, delivered Live by Zoom will assist those with some background in Schema Therapy in developing and fine-tuning their intervention skills. The workshop will also specifically look at the implementation of treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as well as Narcissistic and Cluster-C Personality Disorders. Participants will have extensive opportunity to practice more advanced protocols for experiential exercises including imagery rescripting and chair-work. In addition, time will be allocated to commonly experienced difficulties in complex cases such as working with strong coping modes (e.g. detached protector) and critic (parent) modes. There will be 8 hours of role-play dyadic work and 13 hours of didactic work.

Extra Learning Resources: The training also includes bonus access to over 10 hours of additional prerecorded training material for you to use after the event. The material consists of webinars, skills videos and readings that will supplement your overall learning and is available for 12 months after the training. These additional course materials are prerecorded and on-demand.


Timezone Information: Course to run from 10 am-5.30 pm, AEDST (Sydney/Melbourne Time), 7 am-2.30 pm (Perth/ Sing/ HK) across the three days.

Day One •Theory and conceptual model and Schema Therapy reviewed •Schema Modes Defined •Schema Therapy Cognitive Techniques for change •Schema Mode Borderline Personality Formulation •Specific methods to bypass Detached Protector •Use of Historical Role Play (experiential technique)

Days 2 and 3 • Fine-Tuning and Specialist Skills •Overcompensation Modes •Use of chairwork exercise in mode work •Limited Reparenting- review and Fine-Tuning •Limited Reparenting- Fine-Tuning Attunement •Imagery Rescripting- Window of tolerance •Imagery Rescripting- Working with Different Antagonists and Troubleshooting •Working with Angry Child Mode •Narcissistic Personality Disorder •Empathic Confrontation •Therapist’s Schemas - Reflection •Schema Therapy Competency Scale •Breaking through common therapeutic impasses.

Thee training also included over 10 hours of additional prerecorded training material for you to use after the event. The content consists of webinars, skills videos and readings that will supplement your overall learning and is available for three months after the training. These course materials are prerecorded and on demand.

The training constitutes Course 2 (advanced) for International Society of Schema Therapy accreditation training.

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Presenter: Chris Hayes

ISST Accredited Supervisor/Trainer, Clinical Psychologist


Chris is a Clinical Psychologist and Advanced Schema Therapist based in Perth, Western Australia. He has had extensive experience in both government and private settings working with clients with complex psychological presentations. Since 2005, he has been practicing 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).

Presenter: Rob Brockman, PhD

ISST Accredited Supervisor/Trainer, Clinical Psychologist


Robert is a clinical psychologist and researcher living and working out of Sydney Australia. From 2010-2017 Robert's work life consisted of supervising and lecturing on Clinical Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of Technology) and running a small private practice. This practice has evolved into Schema Therapy Sydney the first schema therapy focused private practice to be established in Sydney. Rob has been affiliated with Schema Therapy Training Australia for the past 7 years and now regularly provides accredited schema trainings across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

In 2018, Rob co-authored a new schema therapy book Contextual Schema Therapy along with Eckhard Roediger and Bruce Stevens (published by New Harbinger in June 2018). His central contribution to this work has been on integrating 3rd wave techniques (e.g. Mindfulness, Self-compassion, Values) to explicitly build the healthy adult mode in schema therapy.