Understanding the deep patterns beneath your struggles — and healing them at their roots.
Sometimes we find ourselves repeating the same painful patterns in relationships, emotions, thoughts, or behaviors — even when we deeply want things to change. You may struggle with feelings of abandonment, emotional deprivation, shame, self-criticism, perfectionism, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting others, or feeling "not good enough." These long-standing patterns often develop from unmet emotional needs and difficult experiences earlier in life.
Schema Therapy is a powerful and deeply transformative approach that helps identify and heal these core emotional patterns — known as "schemas" — that continue to affect your present life and relationships. Rather than only focusing on symptoms, Schema Therapy works to understand the deeper roots of emotional pain and create lasting emotional change.
As an Advanced ISST Certified Schema Therapist Supervisor & Trainer (Individual) and an Advanced Level Certified Schema Therapist in Group Schema Therapy, I specialize in helping clients understand the connection between their past experiences, emotional needs, coping styles, and current struggles.
Alongside schemas, Schema Therapy works with schema modes — the emotional states and coping responses we shift into when a schema is triggered. A mode might be the frightened inner child who shuts down, the inner critic who attacks, or the part that overcompensates to feel safe.
In therapy, we work together to strengthen what Schema Therapy calls the Healthy Adult mode — the part of you that can nurture, protect, guide, and care for yourself in balanced and compassionate ways.
I integrate Schema Therapy with other evidence-based approaches to best support your healing:
Through this process, many clients begin to feel more emotionally connected, confident, balanced, and empowered in their lives and relationships.
In-person and virtual therapy sessions are available. Please call or email to schedule a consultation.
Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor
Advanced ISST Schema Therapist Supervisor & Trainer, Individual
Abandonment · Mistrust/Abuse · Emotional Deprivation · Defectiveness/Shame · Social Isolation
Unmet needs for safety, love, and belonging.
Dependence/Incompetence · Vulnerability to Harm · Enmeshment · Failure
Difficulty functioning independently or succeeding.
Entitlement/Grandiosity · Insufficient Self-Control
Difficulty with internal limits or respecting others.
Subjugation · Self-Sacrifice · Approval-Seeking
Excessive focus on others at the expense of oneself.
Negativity/Pessimism · Emotional Inhibition · Unrelenting Standards · Punitiveness
Suppression of feelings to meet rigid internal rules.
Vulnerable, Angry, Impulsive — emotional states rooted in unmet childhood needs.
Surrender, Avoidance, Overcompensation — protective responses that now create pain.
Punitive or Demanding Parent — internalized critical voices from early life.
The goal of Schema Therapy — a grounded, compassionate inner state that guides with wisdom.
