ONLINE SCHEMA THERAPIST
I offer schema therapy for individuals and couples
Schema Therapy is an evidence-based psychological therapy that helps identify and change long-standing emotional patterns, maladaptive coping styles, and relationship difficulties rooted in early life experiences.
This is a place where you can receive thoughtful support grounded in evidence and care, helping you move toward greater clarity, safety, and wellbeing.
— KYLIE WALLS
Why Schema Therapy is my Primary Modality
Schema Therapy my primary therapeutic modality, which offers a well-researched, integrative framework that helps make sense of complex emotional and relational patterns shaped by early experiences, ongoing stress, and trauma. It provides both structure and flexibility, allowing therapy to be tailored to the individual while remaining grounded in evidence-based practice.
Why I find Schema Therapy so helpful
I find Schema Therapy particularly helpful because it offers a compassionate, structured way to understand why certain emotional patterns and relationship difficulties keep repeating, especially for people who have experienced long-standing stress, trauma, or complex relational histories. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, it works at a deeper level to help clients make sense of their experiences, build healthier coping patterns, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Who Schema Therapy can be helpful for
Schema Therapy can be especially beneficial for people who feel stuck in recurring patterns despite insight or previous therapy, including those experiencing chronic anxiety or low mood, relationship difficulties, effects of childhood or relational trauma, faith-related harm, or long-standing self-criticism and shame. It is also well suited to clients who want to understand themselves more deeply, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others over time.
Key Components of Schema Therapy
Identify Early Maladaptive Schemas & Modes
This involves identifying long-standing emotional patterns and moment-to-moment coping responses that shape how you experience yourself, others, and relationships, particularly under stress.
Engage in Experiential Techniques
Experiential techniques help access and work with emotions and memories linked to these patterns, supporting deeper change through approaches such as imagery and chair work rather than insight alone.
Reality Testing and Cognitive Restructuring
This step focuses on examining and gently challenging schema-driven beliefs, helping develop more balanced, compassionate, and realistic ways of understanding yourself and your experiences.
Limited Reparenting and Building Healthier Patterns
Through a supportive therapeutic relationship and practical strategies, unmet emotional needs are addressed while new, healthier ways of relating, coping, and setting boundaries are developed over time.
Schema Therapy for Individuals
Schema Therapy for individuals focuses on identifying and healing long-standing emotional patterns that shape how you see yourself, relate to others, and respond to stress. By addressing unmet emotional needs and the coping styles developed to manage them, this approach supports deeper insight, emotional regulation, and lasting change — particularly where difficulties have been present for a long time.
Schema Therapy for Couples
Schema Therapy for couples helps partners understand how their individual schemas and coping patterns interact within the relationship, often creating cycles of misunderstanding, conflict, or emotional disconnection. By increasing awareness, strengthening emotional safety, and supporting healthier ways of responding to one another, this approach can foster greater empathy, communication, and more secure connection over time.
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