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)

Jeff has cultivated Schema Therapy in his practice for 17 years, he has been a Schema Therapy trainer and supervisor since the inception of the ISST, of which he is a Founding Member. He is also a founding member of the New York Center for Emotion Focused Therapy and has deep understanding of Object Relations theory, and group psychotherapy.

Offer Maurer, Ph.D.

Director of the The New Wave in Psychotherapy Program, Reichman University, Herzliva. Co-Director of the Israeli Institute for Schema Therapy.

Offer Maurer PhD is a clinical psychologist, the director of The New Wave in Psychotherapy Program at the Hertzeliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Israel and the co-founder/co-director of the Israeli Institute for Schema Therapy. He is the Former chairperson of the Israeli Forum for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Maurer is a guest lecturer at various international programs on LGBT and sexuality issues, Schema Therapy and psychotherapy integration. He is the founding director of the ‘Gay-Friendly Therapists Team’ (2001), the first gay-friendly psychotherapy institute in Israel. Based in London and in Lisbon he offers Schema-Therapy-informed Life Coaching for individuals and groups.