Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders

In this weeks episode, Han is joined by Dr Helen Startup and Dr Nicky Gilbert. Helen and Nicky join Han to discuss Schema Therapy from both a clinical and personal perspective.

This week, we discuss:

  • What is schema therapy, where did it develop from, and what's the theory behind it?

  • The parts that make us who we are, and how we work through Schema Therapy to adapt the intensity of these roles e.g. growing the healthy adult and shrinking the critic a bit.

  • The society we live in, and how more critical and perfectionistic traits are favoured over self-care and compassion for self.

  • Nicky's personal and Helen's professional experience of Schema Therapy.

  • What is the Schema Therapy school, and how you can get involved.

To find out more about Helen and Nicky, or the Schema Therapy School, you can find them at:

  • Twitter: @SchemaSchool @NickyGilbert14

  • Instagram: @schematherapyschool @drnickygilbert

Helen is a teacher and trainer of schema therapy. Along with her colleague Janis Briedis she co-directs Schema Therapy School UK which offers a complete training course in Schema Therapy as well as briefer specialist workshops. She co-authored, 'Creative Methods in Schema Therapy: Advances and Innovation in Clinical Practice', which was published in 2020. She used to work as an NHS consultant psychologist in an eating disorders service but now works mainly in the private sector.

Nicky is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with more than 10 years of experience in Specialist eating disorder teams. She currently works freelance, providing supervision to clinicians working in the NHS and private sector, and therapy to individuals with eating disorders and other difficulties. Her love of schema therapy began after her own experience of receiving it. It is an approach that often informs her work even when she is not using it in a formal sense.

Please note that this podcast discusses various therapeutic models and challenges that may be faced. Please tread lightly, check in with yourself, and note this podcast should not be a replacement for therapeutic support.

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