Schema Couples Therapy

11/22/2025

I want to highlight this session because it gives clinicians a practical, research-grounded look at two of the most effective treatments we have for BPD. Joan Farrell’s landmark work continues to shape the Schema Therapy model, and Ji Young Kim’s deep experience with both DBT and Schema Therapy brings a level of insight that is invaluable. If you work with intense presentations, this comparison can make a real difference in your treatment results.

You can watch live or on your own schedule with 60 days of recording access. Do not wait. Your clients will benefit from what you learn here. Register while seats remain.

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Some of the most challenging cases we treat, including BPD, require treatments with a strong and consistent evidence base. Schema Therapy and DBT both rank among the Big 4 approaches for BPD, yet each excels in different ways. This session shows where DBT shines, and why Schema Therapy often prevails in the toughest and most complex clinical dilemmas.

This presentation features two exceptional clinicians. Joan Farrell, PhD, is the lead investigator of the landmark Group Schema Therapy trial for BPD, a study that produced some of the strongest improvement rates ever reported for this population. Her work remains one of the major drivers shaping and advancing the Schema Therapy model today. Ji Young Kim, LPC-S, brings more than twenty years of experience integrating Schema Therapy and DBT in demanding group and trauma cases, and is known for her skillful, practical approach to complex presentations.

This is truly not to be missed. Your clients need you to see this.

Live online December 4 and 5
Now includes 60 days of access to all recordings; watch at your own pace!
Seats are limited. Register now at: www.SchemaTherapyAssociation.org/Symposium-2025

11/18/2025

In couples therapy, you can often see two people making real progress. Then a familiar trigger shows up, old pain comes to the surface, and the same cycle pulls them back to where they started.
It is not that the tools failed. It is that the deeper schemas took over.

Schema Therapy helps us work directly with those deeper patterns so couples can stay connected even when stress rises.
I am looking forward to sharing how this approach strengthens the models many therapists already use and helps partners finally move beyond the patterns that keep creating distance.

Most couples therapists have watched a couple leave the office feeling connected and confident, only to see the same pattern show up again once the stress of real life returns. Even excellent EFT and Gottman work can hit a limit when deeper schemas and modes keep rebuilding the old choreography.

At the upcoming Schema Therapy Symposium, Travis Atkinson will explore why this happens and how schema therapy strengthens the models therapists already trust. Travis is a Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor and a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist, so he understands the power of these approaches and uses them daily. His session focuses on how schema therapy adds the missing layer that helps clinicians reach couples who stay stuck despite strong work.

If you want new tools for the couples who have tried everything else, this is a session to attend.

Live online December 4–5. Replay and one-year JYSTA membership included.

Learn more and register: www.SchemaTherapyAssociation.org/symposium-2025

01/08/2022

Get certified as a schema therapist for individuals or couples! Apply now
https://www.schematherapytraining.us/individual-schema-therapy-training-program.html

10/09/2021

What are the most important things in a marriage?

Can you imagine what your marriage would be like if you could do three things to reignite, recharge, and revitalize your marriage? Think of the connection and compassion and love that you could light within each other before slight cracks become breaks? Your marriage and spouse are worth taking on t

08/14/2021

Does your friend's partner participate in dunking?Happy to be interviewed by Rachel Miller for VICE that addresses this destructive pattern in relationships.

Non-stop dunking and criticism isn't cute or funny; it's exhausting.

08/04/2021

Many couples start out intending to share parenting duties but quickly fall into old societal gender roles once the baby arrives. What can couples do to ensure parenting and household duties don’t end up destroying their intimacy, and even their marriage?

Many male-female couples start out intending to share parenting duties 50/50. However, they can quickly fall into old societal gender roles once the baby arrives, where the woman takes on much more than the man despite both spouses having full-time careers. What can couples do to ensure parenting an

11/30/2020

What are the warning signs for affairs? Read how to help avoid the pain of betrayal, and what to do to recover from infidelity.

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11/11/2020

Affairs can feel devastating. Learn how to recover from even the most painful moments.

http://ow.ly/45Th50Ci4kp

02/15/2020

Excited to present on Schema Therapy for Couples with Poul Perris for an Intensive Workshop on Day 1 @ INSPIRE 2020 in Copenhagen!
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01/30/2020

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01/06/2019

Watch the Jeff Young and Jeff Conway Keynote Address at INSPIRE 2018.🌷 - https://mailchi.mp/3bf4b6fc4f2c/jeff-young-and-jeff-conway-inspire-2018-keynote-address-690235

11/11/2018

Schema Therapy for Complex PTSD: Sign Up Now. - https://mailchi.mp/46b4db988652/schema-therapy-for-complex-ptsd-chris-hayes