Deepening Emotional Work with Experiential Avoidant and Overcompensating Clients

🧩 Workshop Overview

If you’ve ever felt that the usual skills around “bypassing the Detached Protector mode” are not quite enough, this workshop may be for you.

In some clients, detachment, experiential avoidance, or viewing vulnerability as weakness are not just coping modes — they are deeply shaped by cultural and relational contexts, where showing vulnerability may even be perceived as a risk of manipulation or misuse. When these dynamics are present, theorising everything under one “Detached Protector mode” does not fully capture their complexity.

This workshop will deepen your Schema Therapy practice with clients who avoid, shut down, or overcompensate emotionally. It goes beyond theory — offering hands-on experiential skills integrated with mindfulness-based practices, helping therapists move from stuck sessions to breakthroughs with difficult-to-access clients.

🎯 Learning Objectives

1. Identify cultural and interpersonal factors that contribute to emotional inhibition and experiential avoidance in different cultural contexts.