Collaborations
What we create in collaboration with others will always be greater than what we can create alone, so please get in contact if you would like to discuss how we might be able to work together.
Dr Kate Williams
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and
Advanced Certified Schema Therapist/Supervisor
My name is Kate Williams and I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist. I am based in the UK and have been working within mental health settings, both within the NHS and independently, since 2003.
I trained in Schema Therapy in 2015 and have been using it as the main therapeutic approach in my clinical work ever since. I really value the focus Schema therapy has on individual core needs. I like the way that understanding our own unmet core needs allows us to understand and make sense of our own vulnerabilities.
Making sense of how we have learned to cope with our unmet needs creates real possibilities for people to evaluate if these strategies are working for them now. This in turn offers a non-blaming, non-judgmental approach to consider alternatives.
Most of my clinical experience has involved working in settings, supporting people who are often described as experiencing complex mental health difficulties, often as a consequence of trauma. I have really valued what my training in Schema Therapy has allowed me to offer to these situations, both directly (via individual schema therapy) or indirectly (via team consultation and/or staff supervision).
I feel privileged to have been taught schema therapy as I have witnessed the potential it has to help people address stuckness and to offer and effect meaningful change at both a behavioural and cognitive level.
Currently, I am working towards becoming a certified Schema Supervisor/Trainer and look forward to being able to further support people to be able to learn about schema therapy and develop their own clinical skills in delivering an evidence-based intervention as broadly as possible.
Tena Davies
Clinical Psychologist and Advanced Certified Schema Therapist/Supervisor
My name is Tena Davies and I am a Clinical Psychologist and Advanced Certified Schema Therapist based in Melbourne, Australia. I work with adults in private practice who present with high prevalence disorders such as GAD and BPD.
Jo and I are co-admins of the schema therapy interest group on Facebook, a supportive and professional global community for licensed therapists with the aim to provide support and exchange ideas.