Schema Therapy Forum

Trained in South Africa and qualified since 2003. He has worked in a range of specialist services in South Africa, USA and the UK. This included developing a residential treatment programme for adolescents with challenging behaviour (SA) and managing a crisis house (UK) and a residential dual diagnosis facility (USA). He is currently the Director of Clinical Governance at The LightHouse Arabia (UAE) where he is responsible for developing clinical policies and processes for a team of 40 clinicians.

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He was originally trained in Systemic Therapy also completed further training in Emotion Focussed Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), Brainspotting and Ericksonian Hypnosis. Over the last years he has increasingly shifted towards Schema Therapy and completed part 1 and 2, Schema Therapy with Couples and an Advanced Schema workshop. He attends weekly Schema Therapy supervision and is working towards ISST accreditation.

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Juan works with children, adolescents and adults, providing individual, couple and family therapy.

Trained in South Africa and qualified since 2017. She works in a Maximum Security Unit at a psychiatric hospital conducting forensic assessments, as well providing psychotherapy and psychological assessments for the community in and around Makhanda and Port Alfred (South Africa). She also supervises intern psychologists and lectures on occasion at Rhodes University. Poppy also has a part-time private practice, and is the in-house clinical psychologist for a private university in Port Alfred. 
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She employs an integrative approach to therapy, and has undertaken further training in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), and more recently, Schema Therapy. She has completed part 1 and 2 of the Schema therapy training, and attends weekly supervision with the goal of accreditation with the ISST.

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Poppy provides psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families and works with children, adolescents and adults.