Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders: An Experiential Skills Masterclass with Dr Helen Startup and Dr Anna Lavender

Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders:
An Experiential Skills Masterclass

Two-day workshop: 11-12^th May, 2020
The BPS, 30 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4UE, United Kingdom

with Dr Helen Startup and Dr Anna Lavender, Clinical Psychologists

Despite a notable increase in empirical research over the last decade, eating disorders (ED) remain notoriously difficult to treat. Schema therapy (ST) offers a way of conceptualising and working with ED symptoms whilst flexibly accommodating and working with broader personality features. 

This is a highly interactive experiential skills and techniques workshop aiming to bring to life for attendees the core experiential techniques of ST for ED. Through live role play demonstration by the trainers, video excerpts and plenty of opportunity to practice under supervision, attendees will go away with a thorough grounding in how to recognise the core schemas and modes typical of ED presentations, and ED complicated by personality disorder features. Delegates will be guided in the development of a schema mode formulation for ED and will be supported to feel confident across all ST experiential techniques in relation to ED. 

This two-day workshop will cover fundamental concepts and techniques of ST theory and practice including the assessment of schemas and modes, as well as core experiential change techniques. Participants will be shown how to integrate ST ideas when working with Anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa complicated by other issues such as the presence of personality disorder. Techniques will be demonstrated via live role play demonstration by the facilitators, the use of video clips and supervised practice by participants.

The workshop will specifically look at:

• the basic principles and techniques of ST and how to apply these to complex ED presentations using a schema mode formulation
• core ST techniques as applied to both anorexia nervosa and complex bulimia including: chair work, imagery work, empathic confrontation and using the therapeutic relationship for change (limited re-parenting)
• building the Healthy Adult mode for clients with entrenched EDs
• creative methods for accessing the Happy Child mode, and for reaching the Shamed/Vulnerable Child mode
• working with trauma and pathological shame in the context of EDs
• consolidating learning via an ED case discussion session in which members of the group will have the opportunity to bring case material to be worked with

The Trainers

Dr Helen Startup (PhD, DClin Psy) trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, She is now the co-Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies for the Sussex wide Eating Disorders Service (SEDS). She has worked for the Maudsley Eating Disorders service for the past decade as both a senior clinician and researcher.  She is also a Senior Research Fellow with Sussex Partnership NHS Trust.  She is a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Supervisor and an International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer.

Dr Anna Lavender (DClinPsy) trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and worked for the Maudsley Eating Disorder Service for a decade. Since then, she has been a UK lead on an international trial of Group Schema Therapy for borderline personality disorder, and worked in secondary care psychology with clients with complex presentations using CBT and Schema Therapy. She currently works in private practice using schema therapy to treat a broad range of presentations. Anna is a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therspist and Supervisor, and an ISST Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer.

£345 for one-day workshop (£315 early bird rate before 11^th April 2020)

For more details see: www.schematherapyschool.co.uk

Email: info@schematherapyschool.co.uk