1st Edition

Schema Coaching Overcoming Deep-seated Challenges

By Iain McCormick Copyright 2025
192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Schema Coaching is an informative guide for coaches, providing readers with a powerful and evidence-based approach to dealing with persistent personal difficulties. Schema coaching has a strong foundation in schema therapy which has been used in many parts of the world for over 20 years as a highly successful approach for helping clients with anxiety and depression, as well as more severe... Read more

1. The nature of coaching  2. Using therapeutic tools in coaching  3. The schema coaching approach  4. Case Conceptualisation  5. Foundation techniques  6. Schema psychoeducation  7. Mindful release  8. Schema challenge  9. Relapse prevention  10. Advanced schema techniques  11. Imagery rescripting  12.Chairwork and other dialogue techniques  13. Emotional exposure  14. Schema Homework  15. Integrating the approach  16. A client’s guide to schema coaching

Biography

Dr Iain McCormick is a very active member of the coaching and psychology communities. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society and a Committee Member of the Coaching Psychology Special Interest Group of the Society. Iain is the founder of the Executive Coaching Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. He coaches and consults to a wide range of boards of directors, chief executives and senior managers. Iain has worked with a wide range of large professional service firms, local and central government, infrastructure providers and multinational corporations in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He has been conducting schema coaching sessions for the last 10 years.

'Iain McCormick is a master of schema coaching and he brings this to his new book. It translates the evidence-based approach originally designed for clinical clients to a non-clinical population. A fantastic contribution to the advancement of coaching.'

Jonathan Passmore, Professor, Executive Master Coach, Author 

'What a remarkable coaching reference book.  Rather than quick fix maxims, Iain grounds his coaching ideas as evolutions of the past, with innovative actions, tools, and cases.  Schema coaching offers depth, processes, and techniques to ensure coaching impact.'

Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Partner, the RBL Group 

'Dr McCormick has done a wonderful job with this book; bringing the most powerful elements of Schema Therapy practice into the coaching context. It is full of schema techniques and strategies that have been shown to create deep change for clients.'

Rob Brockman, Co-Director of SchemaTherapyTrainingOnline.com, Schema Therapist, Author 

'This is essential reading for ethically-minded coaches and coaching psychologists who want to explore and confidently use schema coaching. Its dual-part structure ensures relevance, offering insights suitable for practitioners with diverse backgrounds.  It provides a rich resource for coaches and academics.'

Andrea Giraldez-Hayes, Coaching Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Author