Schema Therapy Brisbane

21/07/2025

06/01/2025

Happy New Year!!!! I am excited to share an amazing line up of Australian Schema Therapy Training happening in 2025! The options and opportunities for training offered by amazing schema therapists are vast so take your pick and choose your 2025 CPD now!!!

To obtain a PDF copy email training@mfry.com.au

29/09/2024

I am excited to be presenting my Military Mode concept again online this November!

After a few years of research, I am back to share my findings and how this approach is effective at helping military personnel transition after service.

For more information and to book visit:

Delivered by Australian Clinical Psychologist Megan Fry (MAPS, Advanced Individual Schema Therapist, ex-Army).

29/04/2024

REPARENTING is the HEART of SCHEMA THERAPY!

I love listening to Wendy and Joan’s deliberate practice seminars as they remind me of the importance of schema therapy going beyond the warmth, validation and caring of standard therapy.

With a clear and thorough case conceptualisation we can hear the need, identify the schemas and see the patterns of coping that perpetuate the problem. This is what makes a schema therapist and this is required for schema accreditation!

Your client attends their therapy session agitated and preoccupied with a work task that has to get done today and they are instead focussed on this, rather than being in the therapy room. You identify this preoccupation and raise awareness to it. In standard therapy that might be enough and we might move onto a therapy plan for the day.

In schema therapy, we attune to this preoccupation (coping mode): I know that when you were younger you had to take care of things as mum was unwell and there was no one there to take care of you. You could never let anything slip as it could have severe consequences if you did and you feel this same worry and fear today. The what if of what might happen if you can't get that thing done. Can we tune into this fear and worry of your little one right now, so that we can show up for her and take care of her today, in the way she always needed?

Being able to attune to the clients story, see the schemas, coping responses and needs allows us to respond in a deep way that creates transformative change for the client.

This is the art of being a schema therapist.

If you want to build your confidence and skill to do this, join Lynda Parry and I at our Advanced Skills workshop 15-16 June, Rydges Darling Square, Sydney.

This is a must for those undergoing accreditation (will provide group supervision hours) and a great PD opportunity for others.

Day 1 Schema Case Conceptualisation
Day 2 Schema Foundations

Attend one day ($450) or both days ($800).

We hope you will join us.

Have you completed your initial schema therapy training and are looking for more? Do you want to develop your Schema Therapy skills in a safe space?Would you like to practise your experiential skills with some peers and skilled trainers?

14/03/2024

So excited to have had the opportunity to present to the National Advisory Committee today on my work and research with military personnel. I’m excited to see how this can help military personnel and veterans moving forward. Let’s watch this space!

15/01/2024

REFER A FRIEND DISCOUNT!!!! 15-21 JAN 2024 ONLY!!!!

Simply register for our Advanced Skills Masterclass and then email training@mfry.com.au and you will both be refunded $50! Even if you have already registered, you can still apply for the refund!

Our Advanced Skills Masterclasses are designed to develop your confidence and competence in your schema therapy skills. They are live and experientially focussed hosted by two highly experienced accredited supervisors / trainers. Attendance can count towards your group supervision accreditation hours!

Workshop 1 and 2 are in Sydney 9-10 Feb 24 and workshop 3 and 4 are in Brisbane 15-16 Mar 2024. Attend 1 day or all 4 days, but the more days you attend the bigger the discount!

Workshop 1: Schema Case Conceptualisation: this is your opportunity to work on your schema case conceptualisation skills and complete the ISST required case conceptualisation form, which can then be used for accreditation.

Workshop 2: Schema Foundations: our focus on this day is identifying and understanding the core needs and delivering appropriate limited reparenting. Whilst these foundations seem easy, we find supervisees often struggle to identify the core needs, particularly in imagery and don’t always ‘hit the mark’ with their limited reparenting. We will be fine tuning your skills on these foundations.

Workshop 3: Mode Dialogues using chairs: This day is dedicated to addressing all of your chair work questions and exploring different techniques to fine tune your chair work skills. We will demonstrate and practice mode dialogues using chairs and show you how to get around roadblocks and barriers inhibiting therapy.

Workshop 4: Imagery skills: A full day just to explore imagery! Again we will be addressing all of your imagery questions and road blocks to fine tune your imagery skills.

Lynda Parry and myself hope to see you there!

Register at:

Have you completed your initial schema therapy training and are looking for more? Do you want to develop your Schema Therapy skills in a safe space?Would you like to practise your experiential skills with some peers and skilled trainers?

20/11/2023

Hi Everyone,
Lynda Parry and I are excited to present an Advanced Skills masterclass series for 2024! These workshops are flexibly designed to fine tune and develop your schema therapy skills. This is based on our experience as supervisors and trainers and our passion for developing skilled and competent schema therapists. We hope you will join us for these experientially focussed deep dive learning opportunities to enhance your skills!
Register now! Limited places!
https://www.schematherapycentrensw.com/events/advanced-schema-therapy-skills-workshop-series-2024-02-09-09-30

25/04/2023

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~FORGIVE YOURSELF

Forgive yourself
For what you had to do to survive
Forgive yourself, for who you were,
before you knew better.

Forgive yourself
for being fallible, broken,
and being less than perfect.

Touch the earth
in your small humanness
Feel the dirt, beneath your feet, between your fingers
and how your tears water the parched and
cracked, soil.

Forgive yourself
For not being more, knowing more
For having to learn through experience, or the hard way.

For what you did to survive life's winters,
over life's thin ice.
For your mistakes.

You survived.
You are here.

And in the forgiveness
Let your hands reach down
to soothe your broken heart
and from there, the broken hearts of others.

For we grow humble in our falls
Compassionate through our imperfection,
not our perfection.

Forgive yourself
Let the weight of these lessons hold you firmly
in their dark wisdom
to the earth.
And from there, like a sky of shining lanterns~

set your soul free.

~Rachel Alana (R.A Falconer)
Midwives of the Soul

Featured in my new book, "Soul Songs", by R.A. Falconer
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16/04/2023

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Trauma is stuck life energy.

Wild, creative, natural, playful life energy that was not allowed to flow when it first emerged and it tried to flow. It wasn’t safe to let it flow and you didn’t know how.

And so it got stuck in your body. It’s not your fault, dear one.

The words you wanted to scream. The ways in which you wanted to move your body. The healthy human feelings you intelligently squished in order to protect yourself, get love, be “okay”, stay alive.

The truth you needed to express, but couldn’t.

But it’s a new day, and anything stuck in you yesterday can be given permission to move again today. This will take courage, the willingness to feel old pain and breathe through it, to trust the body now instead of giving in to the mind and its fears. To tell the truth. To come out of hiding and let yourself be seen.

In the safety of your own presence, or in the safe presence of another who can hold you and trust your process, can you turn towards the sore place, the tight place, the dark place, the aching place, and bring to it the light of your awareness, the light of love?

Life only wants to play in you, dance, tremble, vibrate, surge and move through to completion. The rage, the terror, the impulses and urges and desires you learned were ‘sick’ or ‘dangerous’ or ‘wrong’ or ‘shameful’ were always natural, and normal, and healthy, and they won’t damage you as you turn towards them now and give them the love and attention and safe passage they always deserved.

You don’t have to act them out. Just feel them, shine light on them, bow to them. And allow, allow, allow. Moment by moment.

Be a vast Heart now, a loving curious welcoming Heart, and trust this intelligent storm of feeling as it emerges, roars and passes in its own time.

Your wounds, your turbulent and sorrowful places, your traumas, are not mistakes; they are the sacred places in you desperately yearning for love, waiting to be penetrated by your curious Light.

So scream, shake, tremble, weep, vomit, make a holy mess - you are a warrior and you are alive and you are healing and learning to play.

Through the pain, to the glory!

And behold:
The place in you that was never traumatised.
Your innocent Heart.
Your indestructible
Self.

- Jeff Foster

15/04/2023

The Healthy Adult 💜

Beginning Today

Beginning today, I will no longer worry about yesterday. It is in the past and the past will never change. Only I can change by choosing to do so.

Beginning today, I will no longer worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will always be there, waiting for me to make the most of it. But I cannot make the most of tomorrow without first making the most of today.

Beginning today, I will look in the mirror and I will see a person worthy of my respect and admiration. This capable person looking back at me is someone I enjoy spending time with and someone I would like to get to know better.

Beginning today, I will cherish each moment of my life. I value this gift bestowed upon me in this world and I will use it to enhance the lives of others.

Beginning today, I will take life one day at a time, one step at a time. Discouragement will not be allowed to taint my positive self-image, my desire to succeed or my capacity to love.

Beginning today, I will open my mind and my heart. I will welcome new experiences. I will meet new people. I will not expect perfection from myself nor anyone else.

Beginning today, I will learn something new; I will try something different; I will savor all flavors life has to offer. I will change what I can and the rest I will let go.

I will strive to become the best me I can possibly be.

Author: Milan Aryal
Artist: Unknown

09/09/2022

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