Integrating Chairwork and Schema Therapy

A fireside chat from the International Chairwork Psychotherapy Conference

A conversation about bringing therapy to life.

Schema therapy offers a beautiful way to understand people: their parts, unmet needs, coping patterns, and the old emotional learning that keeps showing up in the present.

Chairwork helps us stop just talking about those parts and actually meet them.

In this fireside chat with Dr Scott Kellogg and Rodrigo Trapp, we talk about how chairwork and schema therapy can come together in clinical practice — how to give voice to parts, work with internal dialogues, use interpersonal chairwork, and bring formulation to life through real clinical examples.

This is the kind of work I get excited about because it moves therapy from explanation into experience.

Not just understanding the pattern.

Meeting them. Speaking to them. Working with them in the room.

In this episode

  • Parts work and giving voice

  • Internal dialogues

  • Integrating chairwork and schema therapy

  • Interpersonal chairwork

  • Clinical examples

  • Therapeutic storytelling

  • Bringing mode work into live experience

A conference conversation with Dr Oz Yalcin, Dr Scott Kellogg, and Rodrigo Trapp on integrating chairwork and schema therapy through parts work, internal dialogues, clinical examples, and therapeutic storytelling.

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