Therapist Training

Advanced Schema Therapy
2 day training program

"We teach what we practice, we practice what we teach."

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This workshop is Certified by the International Society of Schema Therapy as forming part of a Certified Training in Schema Therapy.

APS Endorsed Activity. 14 CPD hours CPD. APSA College Endorsed CCOUN, CCLIN. Code 11-646 valid to 31 October 2012.

Fee: Earlybird Fee $550 up to 17 July 2012, Standard Fee $594 from 18 July 2012 onwards.


Melbourne Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 August 2012 Tracey Centre, 126 The Avenue,Parkville
Sydney Thursday 16, Friday 17 August 2012 North Sydney Harbourview Hotel, 17 Blue St. Nth Sydney
Singapore Monday 2, Tues 3 July 2012. Sponsored by Shan You Counselling Center. Click here for the link.

Melbourne and Sydney workshops presented Dr Chris Lee. Singapore workshop presented by Graham Taylor

Chris and Graham is have Advanced Trainer certification with the International Society of Schema Therapists (ISST) and are approved ISST supervisors. For further information see note below.

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Australian Workshops: Pre-workshop material will be emailed to you 2 weeks prior to the workshop.

Singapore workshop: Click here for essentual Pre-Workshop Material.

The learning objectives are:

• Review the schema focused therapy model with an emphasis on the role of modes.
• Understand how to conceptualise an individual with a personality disorder in mode terms.
• Learn and practice therapeutic strategies to deal with each mode in an individual therapy context.
• Understand the role of therapist's schemas in the therapeutic relationship.
• Explore limit setting and reparenting techniques.

Chris Lee is the recipient of a large Rotary Foundation research grant to replicate Farrell and Shaw study on group Schema Therapy with BDP (See Group Schema Therapy page), as part of an international multi-site Randomised Control Trial, the largest RCT ever conducted in psychotherapy.



Note Certification as an ISST therapist requires 40 approved hours in training (25 hours didactic and 15 hours in role plays and experiential exercises) and various supervision requirements. By combining our working with difficult clients two day workshop with this workshop on advanced techniques and Dr Joan Farrels and Ida Shaw’s training in group schema work available in November.You will have met all the training components for Certification. Supervision is also available by us (Graham and Chris) and Joan and Ida to allow full certification.


Further information: Email Chris Lee at: chris.lee@murdoch.edu.au, or phone 0421131042.



1. Giesen-Bloo, J., et al., Outpatient Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Randomized Trial of Schema-Focused Therapy vs Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2006. 63(6): p. 649-658.
2. Farrell, J.M., I.A. Shawb, and M.A. Webber, A schema-focused approach to group psychotherapy for outpatients with borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2009. 40(2): p. 317-328.