Guide8 min read
Schema Reflect Inventory: Scoring, Results and Limits
Understand SRI scores with a worked example: 144 items, 18 schemas, missing answers, edited wording, privacy, and the limits of this educational inventory.
Schema Therapy Blog
Learn about early maladaptive schemas, schema therapy, and personal development
Education12 min read
What Is Schema Therapy? How It Works and Helps
Learn what schema therapy is, how it works, and how to use it to change repeating emotional loops. Includes practical tools, evidence-based benefits, and FAQ.
Deep Dive8 min read
Abandonment Schema: Signs, Causes, and Test
Explore abandonment schema in detail - what it is, how it develops, common signs, and practical strategies for managing it.
Deep Dive6 min read
Defectiveness and Shame Schema: Signs and Examples
Understand defectiveness and shame, compare it with abandonment and failure, and follow a fictional example of how to examine a painful self-belief.
Comparison7 min read
Schema Therapy vs. CBT for Anxiety: Key Differences
Compare schema therapy and CBT for anxiety: methods, guideline recommendations, research limits, a 2024 trial, and questions to discuss with a therapist.
Deep Dive11 min read
Emotional Deprivation Schema: Signs and Causes
Learn the signs and causes of emotional deprivation schema, how it affects relationships, and practical ways to ask for care and connection.
Complete Guide14 min read
18 Early Maladaptive Schemas: Complete List
Explore all 18 early maladaptive schemas, their five domains, common signs, and how schema patterns shape thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
Relationships12 min read
Why You Sabotage Relationships
Learn why you may push people away, test partners, or repeat painful relationship patterns-and how schemas and coping styles can keep the cycle going.
Self-Reflection10 min read
Why Your Core Schema Is Hard to Identify
Learn why schemas are easy to confuse with symptoms, coping styles, and each other-and use a structured process to identify likely core patterns.
Start Here9 min read
Which Schema Do I Have? Take the Free Test
Find the right starting point: take a quick dominant-schema snapshot, complete the free 18-schema inventory, or learn the model first.
Deep Dive11 min read
Unrelenting Standards Schema: Signs and Causes
Learn how unrelenting standards schema drives perfectionism, productivity guilt, and chronic pressure-and how to practice healthier, flexible standards.
Deep Dive10 min read
Self-Sacrifice Schema: Signs and Boundaries
Learn when caring becomes self-sacrifice, why boundaries trigger guilt, and how to replace overgiving with reciprocal, sustainable support.
Relationships10 min read
Why You Choose Emotionally Unavailable People
Understand why emotionally unavailable relationships can feel compelling, which schemas may shape the pattern, and how to choose for reciprocity.
Self-Worth10 min read
Why You Never Feel Good Enough
Learn why achievement may not fix feeling inadequate, which schemas can drive the pattern, and how to build worth beyond performance and approval.
Deep Dive11 min read
Mistrust/Abuse Schema: Signs and Causes
Learn how mistrust/abuse schema shapes suspicion, defensiveness, and intimacy-and how to build evidence-based trust without ignoring real danger.
Explore individual schemas
Learn more about specific types of schemas