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Digital Seminar

Depth-Oriented Schema Therapy

A Unique & Effective Approach to Challenging Issues

Faculty:
Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Copyright:
21 Mar, 2026
Product Code:
NOS096729
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

The schema approach draws from cognitive-behavioral therapy, attachment theory, psychodynamic concepts, and emotion-focused therapies. And it’s uniquely effective with entrenched, chronic psychological disorders, eating disorders, intractable relationship and emotional problems, and personality disorders—in other words, clients who often get labeled as “difficult” or “resistant.” In this workshop, you’ll learn to navigate clinical challenges using powerful schema therapy interventions such as imagery, mode dialogues, empathic confrontation, bypassing avoidance, setting limits, adaptive re-parenting, anger confrontation, and behavioral pattern breaking. You’ll also be invited to reflect on how your own schema impacts the therapy relationship. You’ll discover how to:  
 

  • Identify activating conditions that shaped early maladaptive schemas and schema modes 
  • Link current problems with their innate makeup, early unmet needs, schemas, and coping styles 
  • Make sense of self-defeating life patterns and emotional distress—and explore strategies for maintaining a sturdy, genuine, and healthy adult mode 
  • Use schema therapy interventions for relapse prevention with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse 

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Faculty

Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW's Profile

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The Cognitive Therapy Center of NJ


With 25 years post-graduate training and advanced level certifications, Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. Wendy is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York, where she has trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989. She is a founding fellow of The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Dr. Aaron T. Beck). Wendy is also the president of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST).

Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on schema therapy and cognitive therapy. She is the author of (New Harbinger Publications – 1st edition): “Disarming the Narcissist...Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed”. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and an expert on the subject of narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism (Wiley Publications and APA Press, 2011/12). She lectures both nationally and internationally to professionals on schema therapy, and the subject of narcissism, relationships and dealing with difficult people.

Her private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Wendy Behary is the co-founder of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She receives royalties as a published author. Wendy Behary receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Wendy Behary is the board president of The Jeff Young Schema Therapy Association. She is a member of the NJ Association of Cognitive-Behavior Therapists and the International Association of Cognitive-Behavior Therapists. She is a founding fellow of The Academy of Cognitive Therapy.


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Objectives

  1. Identify early life experiences and activating conditions that contribute to the development of early maladaptive schemas and schema modes.
  2. Discuss the potential interplay between current clinical concerns and a client’s innate makeup, early unmet needs, schemas, and coping styles.
  3. Analyze recurring self-defeating patterns of behavior and emotional distress through the lens of schema theory.
  4. Apply evidence-based schema therapy interventions for relapse prevention for individuals with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.

Outline

Overview of Schema Theory and Concepts:

  • Understanding Schema Theory
  • Evolution from CBT and Integration of other Evidence-Based strategies
  • 18 Early Maladaptive Schemas – Defined

Assessment:

  • Identifying Schema Clusters in the Assessment Phase
  • Case Conceptualization – vignettes 
  • The Therapy Relationship – demonstration of sturdy realness with challenging cases

Strategies:

  • Implementing Limited Re-Parenting and Imagery Re-Scripting
  • An Introduction to Schema Modes, in the context of BPD/NPD/Cluster C 
  • Bypassing Detached Protector Modes
  • Confronting Anger Modes
  • The Use of Empathic Confrontation
     

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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