1st Edition

Schema Coaching Overcoming Deep-seated Challenges

By Iain McCormick Copyright 2025
    192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Schema Coaching is an informative guide for coaches, providing readers with a powerful and evidence-based approach to dealing with persistent personal difficulties.

    Schema coaching has a strong foundation in schema therapy which has been used in many parts of the world for over 20 years as a highly successful approach for helping clients with anxiety and depression, as well as more severe personality disorders. The book provides clear practical guidelines, illustrative case studies and reflective practice exercises to those who wish to implement a range of schema techniques when coaching with the non-clinical population. The book is in two parts, the first is primarily designed for coaches that do not have clinical, counselling or psychotherapy training and the second includes more advanced techniques which are designed for coaches with this type of training or qualifications. It also clearly sets out the ethical steps any coach should undertake before using therapeutic techniques with a client.

    This will be an informative and engaging resource in a new and extremely important area of coaching, suitable for coaches, coaching psychologists, coaching educators, and anyone with a general interest in this topic.

    1. The nature of coaching  2. Using therapeutic tools in coaching  3. The schema coaching approach  4. Case Conceptualisation  5. Foundation techniques  6. Schema psychoeducation  7. Mindful release  8. Schema challenge  9. Relapse prevention  10. Advanced schema techniques  11. Imagery rescripting  12.Chairwork and other dialogue techniques  13. Emotional exposure  14. Schema Homework  15. Integrating the approach  16. A client’s guide to schema coaching

    Biography

    Dr Iain McCormick is a very active member of the coaching and psychology communities. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society and a Committee Member of the Coaching Psychology Special Interest Group of the Society. Iain is the founder of the Executive Coaching Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. He coaches and consults to a wide range of boards of directors, chief executives and senior managers. Iain has worked with a wide range of large professional service firms, local and central government, infrastructure providers and multinational corporations in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He has been conducting schema coaching sessions for the last 10 years.