World Schema Therapy Day 2025 – Official Announcement
SchemaNews officially announces that the second annual World Schema Therapy Day (WSTD 2025)
will be held globally and online on November 7th, 2025. Organized by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST),
the entire program is **free of charge** and open to professionals, students, and all individuals interested in the Schema Therapy model.
The international program features four core tracks:
• Main Track – Introduction to Schema Therapy
• Schema Therapy for Children & Adolescents (ST-CA)
• Group Schema Therapy Track
• Couples Schema Therapy Track
In addition, multiple countries will host their own national programming in their local languages.
# Main Track Presentations (Selected by ISST Executive Board):
• Dr. Sergio Morales — Empathic Confrontation for Addiction Patients
• Nehal Abdelazim-Horstmann — Psychological Resilience in an Unstable World
• Priya Puri — Integrating EMDR to Deepen Imagery Rescripting
• Paweł Górny — Key Stages and Interventions in Group Schema Therapy
• Eckhard Roediger — The Modular Approach in Couples Schema Therapy
• Alp Karaosmanoglu — Layered Model of Early Maladaptive Schemas
• Dr. Maria Mueller-Gartner — Limited Reparenting: Therapeutic Role and Impact
• Hagara Feldman — Life Narrative in Schema Therapy
• Dr. Ahmed Hanafy Mahmoud — Schema Therapy in Substance Misuse Treatment
• Leonardo Wainer — Latest Empirical Evidence in Schema Therapy
• Dr. Khrystyna Zhyvaho — Schema Therapy for Complex Somatic Disorders
• Beata Pašková — The Reparenting Function of the Healthy Adult Mode
• Christoph Fuhrhans — Cross-Cultural Training Experiences in Arabic-Speaking Contexts
• Chao (Iris) Huang — Balancing Cultural Sensitivity in Work with Chinese Clients
All presentations will be available following the event on the official ISST YouTube channel with multilingual subtitles.
World Schema Therapy Day is a shared celebration of scientific growth, compassion, and therapeutic community worldwide.
