Schema Therapy in Mooresville, NC
Identifying the beliefs and patterns that affect your life
Schema Therapy helps you uncover the deep-rooted beliefs, emotional patterns, and coping styles that were formed early in life—often as a response to unmet needs, childhood experiences, or chronic stress. These long-standing “schemas” can influence everything from your self-esteem to your relationships, career choices, emotional reactions, and sense of safety in the world.
When schemas are activated, they can lead to:
Low self-worth or self-criticism
Feeling disconnected or unseen
Difficulty expressing emotions
Choosing emotionally unavailable or unsafe partners
Perfectionism, anxiety, or chronic worry
People-pleasing, avoidance, or shutting down
Repeating patterns that feel impossible to break
Schema Therapy helps you understand why these patterns show up and how to change them—so you can respond from your healthiest self, not from old wounds.
How Does Schema Therapy Work?
Schema Therapy is a powerful, integrative approach that combines the best of cognitive, emotional, and experiential therapies. It helps you understand the origins of your patterns, connect with the younger parts of yourself that still hold pain, and build healthier ways of thinking, feeling, and relating.
Your therapist will guide you through:
Assessments to identify your core schemas and coping modes
Experiential work to understand emotional triggers
Cognitive strategies to challenge old beliefs
Behavioral change techniques to build healthier habits
Inner child and mode work to heal unmet needs
Corrective emotional experiences that rewire patterns in real time
Schema Therapy integrates elements from a wide range of evidence-based modalities, including:
Gestalt Therapy
Attachment theory
Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed work
EMDR and trauma-informed frameworks
Lifestyle and mind–body approaches
What Schema Therapy Helps You Achieve
With time and supportive guidance, Schema Therapy helps you:
Break lifelong emotional and relational patterns
Develop a more compassionate, integrated sense of self
Build healthier boundaries and communication skills
Heal attachment wounds and inner child needs
Strengthen emotional regulation and resilience
Create relationships and choices aligned with your values
Schema Therapy doesn’t just change behaviors—it transforms the underlying beliefs that keep you stuck. We use Schema Therapy with clients in Lake Norman, the Charlotte, NC area and beyond to help them to move through life with clarity, confidence, and connection.