Supervisors and Associated Trainers
Agnes Sullivan LCSW
ISST Certified Advanced Individual & Group Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. ISST Approved Training Program Director.
Agnes is an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist, Group Schema Therapist, Supervisor/Trainer and is Director of the Schema Therapy Institute in London, United Kingdom. She is an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Emotion Focused Couples Therapist.
Agnes has been an ISST approved Director of Training in the UK since 2009, and is an active member of ISST’s Quality Assurance, Supervisor Skills Training and Brainstorming Sub-Committees.
Ida Shaw, M.A.
Child and Adult Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor Group Schema Therapy Master Level Trainer
Ida is the Director of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest, Indianapolis, USA, and Senior Clinical Supervisor at the Center for BPD Treatment and Research, Indiana University School of Mediciec.
She is an ISST Certified Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor in Adult, Child-Adolescent and Group.
Joan M. Farrell, Ph. D
ISST Training and Certification Coordinator Executive Director of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest – Indianapolis Center. ISST Certified Advanced Individual & Group Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer.
Joan is a Clinical Psychologist, Research and Training Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA, and Adjust Professor in the Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
She is an International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) Certified Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor, the Coordinator for Training & Certification of the ISST, and an Executive Board member.
Gail Palmer RMFT, MSW
Co-Director of the International Center of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
Gail is one of the founding members and Co-Director of the International Center of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT), an adjunct faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada and a sessional lecturer at Oxford University, England.
Over the past 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), chairing the ICEEFT Education Committee and is responsible for mentoring and training EFT trainers internationally.
Gail is an experienced supervisor in EFT and specifically for the past decade, she has been one of the lead EFT trainers developing and expanding on the EFFT method, bringing the powerful interventions and skills of this model to the family therapy room.
Jeff Conway, LCSW
Coordinator of Training on the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST)
Dr Seyfullah Karacan
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Dr Seyfullah Karacan is a HCPC-registered Counselling Psychologist and an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). He holds a doctorate in Counselling Psychology and has extensive experience working with children, adults, couples, families, and groups across various settings, including the Priory Group, the NHS, prison services, charities, private organisations, and private practice.
Dr Seyf’s therapeutic style is integrative and grounded, informed by a range of psychological models including CBT, Schema Therapy, Existential Therapies, Psychodynamic approaches, Person-Centred Therapy, and third-wave approaches such as Mindfulness, DBT, and Compassion-Focused Therapy.
Clients often describe Dr Seyf as someone who is exceptionally attuned – able to read the emotional tone of a room quickly and help people connect to a deeper inner compass. His presence is calm, non-judgemental, and steady, which allows clients to feel safe enough to explore the parts of themselves that are often difficult to face alone.
He understands that reaching out for help – or beginning therapy – can feel daunting, especially when carrying long-term emotional struggles or facing sudden life changes. But he believes that within the therapeutic space, individuals can gain insight, build resilience, and begin to move toward a more honest and fulfilling way of living.
He works with a broad spectrum of concerns, with particular focus on emotional regulation, relationships, ADHD, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), mood difficulties, and anxiety-related disorders.
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