Schema Therapy and Coherence Therapy: and interview with Pierre Cousineau

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Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative approach that brings together elements from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment and object relations theories, and Gestalt and experiential therapies. It was introduced by Jeff Young in 1990 and has been developed and refined since then. Schema therapy is considered an effective way of conceptualizing and treating personality disorders. Rafaeli, Bernstein, and Young (2011) and Jacob and Arntz (2013) describe some of the distinguishing features of schema therapy.
ST places more emphasis than traditional CBT upon the development of current symptoms.
ST emphasizes the therapist-patient relationship and its potential for corrective influence.
ST aims to help patients understand their core emotional needs and to learn ways of meeting those needs adaptively.
ST focuses extensively on the processing of memories of aversive childhood experiences, making use of experiential techniques to change negative emotions related to such memories.
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Coherence Therapy is a unified set of methods and concepts for individual, couple and family work that enable a therapist to foster profound change with a high level of consistency.
From the first session, the work is focused on guiding clients to bring awareness to ignored core areas of meaning, feeling, and emotional learning that are generating the presenting symptom or problem. Coherence Therapy makes use of native capacities for swiftly retrieving and then transforming the client's unconscious, symptom-requiring emotional schemas, which were learned adaptively earlier in life.
SYMPTOMS DISPELLED BY COHERENCE THERAPY
A wide range of symptoms can be dispelled along with their associated, less visible emotional wounds, attachment patterns, and troubled ego states or "parts". The process is experiential and the therapist's empathic attunement is a crucial ingredient. The focused methodology requires far fewer sessions than conventional in-depth psychotherapies.

[@Shibby27ify]

Thank you for representing two beloved psychotherapies in my practice.
Schema Therapy was the first therapy teaching me about the experiential and that therapy can be integrative, rather than stuck in one concretized school. I have trained in CT and love it. It all works with AEDP, my main approach

[@AmapollaOfficial]

The examples could have been better ... people develop cptsd ( and consenquential disorders ) because of abuse / neglect by their progenitors behaviours toward them by the way . Rewind technique and the ideal parent figure protocol are amazing tools to generate mismatch and memory reconsolidation ...

[@Ciskuss]

What about IFS? It seems to integrate all what you are talking about

[@experiential-psychotherapy]

Yes, IFS is another brilliant methodology! Earlier in this series we interviewed Liz Philips who practices IFIO, a version of IFS with couples. You can watch that interview here: ruclips.net/video/ol08Z4mdLk4/видео.html. Also on www.experiential-psychotherapies.com we have demonstration sessions of IFS and other great resources.