Dancing with the Detached Protector with Dr Rob Brockman (1-Day Workshop)
Date/Time: June 18th (2025)
10am-6pm (AEST) Sydney/Melb time
8am-4pm (AWST) Perth/Singapore/HK
7-Hours of Live Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Overview - One of the most difficult tasks the schema therapist faces are those clients who present to session with a very strong detached protector mode and emotional inhibition that feels immovable, or that in some way functions to block the most powerful elements of a schema-based treatment. A standard Schema Therapy approach to bypassing such modes does not always appear enough to help ‘connect to the vulnerable child’.
In this 1-day workshop, Rob will summarise the most important strategies for overcoming such difficult cases, presenting a functional model of the detached protector, that specifies multiple pathways to strong detachment coping, and related treatment implications. Schema attunement is the antithesis of emotional inhibition.
You will learn a 5-Step process model of attunement, designed to increase the felt level of attunement in the session, and boost connection with client vulnerability. Multiple opportunities to engage in role plays to boost your attunement skills will be provided.
Presenter - Dr. Robert Brockman (Clinical Psychologist), Accredited Schema Therapy Supervisor/Trainer - (International Society for Schema Therapy)
Cost - 1 Day Training - $249 (AUD) Australian Dollars (Includes GST)
Live Format: Course Can be used as 7-Hours of Live CPD or "Schema Therapy CE" for those requiring ISST 'CE' Credits for those that attend Live.
Recording: This workshop will also be recorded (available for 12-months post workshop) for those that can't make the time zone, and also for those that like to go over the materials again.
Rob Brockman, PhD (Clinical Psychologist)
ISST Accredited Supervisor/Trainer
Current President - International Society for Schema Therapy
Robert is a clinical psychologist and researcher working out of Sydney, Australia. From 2010-2017 Rob's work life consisted of supervising and lecturing on Clinical Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of Technology) and running a small private practice. This practice has evolved into Schema Therapy Sydney the first schema therapy focused private practice to be established in Sydney. Rob has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and books related to schema therapy and emotion regulation including The Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy (2023). Rob has been affiliated with Schema Therapy Training Australia for over a decade and regularly provides accredited schema trainings across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Bali, and Hong Kong.
