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Lynda Perry, PhD

Clinical Psychologist ISST Certified Supervisor-Trainer in Individual Schema Therapy Accredited Group Schema Therapist Lynda is a Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years of experience in private practice. Trained initially as an early childhood educator, her passion for developmental psychology led her to complete four years of postgraduate study and gain accreditation in contemporary psychotherapy. Lynda has a longstanding interest in dream work, which she has integrated into her clinical and training practices for over 25 years. She presented her first paper, Dream Analysis: Is It Obsolete? at the International Psychotherapy Conference in 2010, and has continued researching and incorporating dream work into Schema Therapy ever since. Trained in psychodrama, Lynda worked at The Psychodrama Centre in Sydney for a decade. Her experience facilitating psychodrama groups and training in CBT provided a strong foundation for her embrace of the experiential elements central to Schema Therapy. She is the Director of the Schema Therapy Centre of NSW and has held multiple leadership roles within the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), including: · Past Chair of the ISST Quality Assurance Committee · Former member of the ISST Ethics Committee · Former member of the ISST Training and Certification Advisory Board · Former Co-Regional Training Coordinator for Australia · Chair of the National Training Directors Committee Lynda is also a published author. Her article Schema Therapy and Dreams: Accessing the Vulnerable Child appeared in the ISST Bulletin in December 2018. In addition to providing core Schema Therapy training, she runs workshops on Schema Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares and Experiencing Schema Therapy From the Inside Out . Her book chapter on Schema Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares is currently in progress.
4.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Friday Dec 5th

SCHEMAS OF THE NIGHT: PHANTOM OR REAL

Dream Material can give access to schemas, particularly the unconditional schemas of early childhood, that may be difficult for clients to emotionally connect with in sessions. Research from neurobiology, sleep and memory studies will be presented to explain how this happens and how the dreaming process is thought to be critical in the process of memory consolidation particularly in connecting current events with past experience. A case study of working with a dream of client A will be presented. The presentation will demonstrate how to connect the therapist’s in depth knowledge of the client’s schemas and modes from their case conceptualisation with dream material. Facilitating exploration of the dream through the emotional focus techniques of schema therapy can enable connection with the vulnerable child mode, often for the first time, as well as emotional expression of the schemas.