In this real-time demonstration of a therapy session, we see Poul Perris help a couple connect to the pain underneath their decade’s long relationship struggles.
Poul Perris, MD is the director of the Swedish Institute for CBT & Schema Therapy located in Stockholm,Sweden. The institute is a private training center with University status that offers psychotherapy training programs at various professional levels, combined with a clinical outpatient setting.
Poul served as the President of the Swedish CBT association from 2010-2016 and has contributed to making SchemaTherapy an integral part of national mental health services in Sweden. Poul has been teaching and supervising cognitivebehavioral therapists and schema therapists internationally for over a decade.He is a certified schema therapy trainer for both individual and couples and his Institute has been offering ISST approved training for certification since 2005. Poul specializes in the treatment of personality disorders, and in couples therapy for complex relational problems. Poul has co-authored a handbook on Schema Therapy in Swedish, as well as several bookchapters on working with couples and core emotional needs. Poul is committed to bring ingSchema Therapy to theattention of the general public and, to this end, has been involved in several productions for Swedish National Television that promote the schema therapists understanding of the centrality of core emotional needs, what happens when theyare not met, and the schema mode model. In 2012 he treated 6 authentic couples with ST-C. All sessions were filmed and later edited into 6 episodes that were aired on Swedish National TV.
For more information about Poul’s work go to https://cbti.se/kunskap/medarbetare/poul-perris/
For more information about the series andtraining go to https://www.schematherapycanberra.com.au/everypartofus.html and https://schematherapyforcoupleslondon.co.uk/every-part-of-us/
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