WSTD 2025 Main Track | Limited Reparenting in Schema Therapy | Maria Mueller Gartner - Video

In this deeply reflective and practical presentation, Maria Mueller-Gartner (Austria), Director of the Institute for Schema Therapy in Krems, explores the essence of reparenting — the compassionate heart of Schema Therapy. Drawing inspiration from Jeffrey Young’s concept of maintenance reparenting, Maria offers a nuanced perspective on how therapists can create emotionally corrective experiences while maintaining clear professional and personal boundaries.

Through clinical insights, vivid case illustrations, and structured exercises, Mueller-Gartner introduces her Two-Level Model of Parenting and Reparenting, showing how sensitive caregiving and strong guidance work together to build emotional safety and autonomy in clients. She demonstrates how limited reparenting helps patients develop a stable inner relationship, differentiate child and adult modes, and gradually internalize a caring, competent Healthy Adult self.

This talk invites schema therapists to reflect on their therapeutic stance, their own inner child, and the lifelong process of reparenting — both in therapy and within themselves.

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