LOCATION

Sydney

EVENT OPTIONS

1) Overcoming Obstacles with Schema Therapy in The Client & The Therapist

2 Days: January 23rd & 24th 2019

2) Innovations in Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: when other approaches fail

2 Days: July 16th &17th 2019

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Dr Joan Farrell, Coordinator for Training and Certification on the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy.

Lynda Parry, ISST Certified Supervisor-Trainer in Schema Therapy for Individuals

Dr Joan Farrell is Joan Farrell, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Research Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at IUPUI and was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine for 25 years. In that position, she developed and directed an inpatient ST program for BPD at the university-affiliated hospital. She is co-principal investigator of an international trial of ST for BPD with Arnoud Arntz with 14 sites in five countries and was principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial of Group ST for BPD that was awarded a NIMH grant. Joan is the author along with Ida Shaw of numerous chapters on schema therapy, research articles evaluating their group model and three books: Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by- step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, The Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide: A Complete Resource for Building and Delivering Individual and Group Integrated Mode Treatment Programs, Wiley- Blackwell, 2014 and the third due in early 2017: Experiencing Schema Therapy from the Inside Out: a Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists, Guilford 2018. They have a DVD Set: Group Schema Therapy: An innovative approach to treating patients with personality disorder.

Lynda Parry is a Clinical Psychologist who has been in private practice for 33 years. Originally an early childhood educator she has a passion for developmental psychology which led to 4 years post graduate study and accreditation in contemporary psychotherapy. She presented her final paper on Dream Analysis at the International Psychotherapy Conference in 2010. She is trained in psychodrama and worked at The Psychodrama Centre, Sydney for 10 years. The experience of running psychodrama groups and training in CBT has stood her in good stead for embracing Schema Therapy. She is the director of the Schema Therapy Centre of NSW.