Empower Your Inner Therapist
Schema Therapy for Modern Empowerment
If you spend your days juggling the high-speed emotional labour of your career with the endless pressures of family life, you likely know the niggling voice of self-criticism all too well. You are incredibly capable on the outside, but inside, it often feels like you are permanently stuck on an exhausting hamster wheel.
Bringing years of NHS clinical expertise directly to your everyday life.
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You are not failing, and you are not alone.
At 2 Together, we use schema psychology to help you step off that wheel. Our mission is to make evidence-based therapy fully accessible, giving you a compassionate new language for understanding your own mind.
Whether you are struggling with a tendency to people-please, chronic emotional burnout, or unrelenting perfectionism, we offer the practical tools and guidance you need to become your own psychologist.
About Schema Therapy
Unlike traditional therapies that focus primarily on surface-level symptom management, schema psychology delves into your deeper emotional blueprints. Developed as an integrative approach, it explores the self-defeating patterns—or "lifetraps"—that take root when our early emotional needs aren't fully met.
We help you understand exactly why you react a certain way to stress, allowing you to nurture your "Healthy Adult" mode and build lasting resilience.
About Your Therapists: Tanya and Lisa
We are Dr Tanya Petersen and Dr Lisa Corbett, HCPC-registered psychologists who first met at university when we were just 18 years old.
Alongside our extensive clinical backgrounds working in complex NHS and secure settings, our long-standing friendship brings warmth, curiosity, and a deep understanding of the everyday chaos of modern life into everything we do.
What We Can Help With
If you are ready to look a little closer at your recurring themes, we can help. Common areas we explore include:
Anxiety & Chronic Worry
We help you untangle the persistent 'what-ifs' and constant mental chatter, finding grounded ways to soothe your nervous system when the world feels too loud.
Trauma & Difficult Life Experiences
We offer a compassionate, gently paced approach to processing painful past events, helping you heal the emotional blueprints that continue to impact your present sense of safety.
Perfectionism & High Self-Pressure
If you are exhausted from setting impossibly high standards and constantly fearing failure, we will help you soften those unrelenting expectations and find relief from the pressure.
Relationship Difficulties
Whether you are navigating conflict, feeling disconnected, or struggling to communicate your needs, we provide a safe, neutral space to explore and strengthen how you relate to your partner.
Bereavement & Loss
Grief rarely moves in a straight line, and we are here to sit with your story and support you through the heavy, often unspoken realities of losing someone or something you love.
People-Pleasing & Boundary Difficulties
We will explore the fear behind saying 'no', empowering you to stop subjugating your own needs to keep the peace and start setting healthy, guilt-free boundaries.
Family & Interpersonal Challenges
Family dynamics can be complicated and exhausting; we will work together to navigate these complex relationships and establish healthier, more balanced ways of interacting.
Low Self-Esteem & Self-Criticism
Together, we will challenge the demanding inner critic that tells you you aren't quite good enough, helping you build a kinder, more accepting relationship with yourself.
Emotional Overwhelm & Burnout
When you feel permanently stuck on a hamster wheel of doing everything for everyone else, we help you step off, recharge, and reclaim your time and energy.
Choose Your Path Forward
The “Unstuck" Podcast
Join us for some casual listening. Tune in during your daily commute or the school run for a friendly, entirely free chat about the stories we tell ourselves.
Paid Mini Courses
Looking for deeper reflection? Our upcoming structured, self-guided educational journeys provide practical tools to help you change the habits of a lifetime at your own pace.
Personal Support
If you need a safe, dedicated space to untangle your thoughts, we offer specialist one-to-one professional therapy delivered securely online across the UK and further afield.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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Schema psychology is an integrative therapeutic approach that helps you identify and change deep-rooted emotional patterns (schemas) that develop early in life. It provides a framework to understand why you might overreact, feel invisible, or sabotage your own happiness, empowering you to break those cycles.
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While Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is excellent for managing current symptoms and thoughts, schema psychology goes a level deeper. It explores the childhood origins of your beliefs and integrates attachment theory, providing a more robust framework for sustainable, long-term change.
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Absolutely. While clinical certification requires intensive training, the core concepts of schema psychology, such as the mode model, are highly accessible for self-guided use. Our platform is designed specifically to give you the tools to become your own psychologist from home.
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Yes. Professional burnout is very often driven by schemas like "Unrelenting Standards" and "Self-Sacrifice". Schema psychology helps you recognise these internal pressures, allowing you to set healthier boundaries and protect your energy.
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People-pleasing is usually a coping mechanism tied to a fear of rejection or not being "good enough". Through schema psychology, you can strengthen your "Healthy Adult" mode, which gives you the confidence to gently assert your own needs without feeling guilty.
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We offer a blend of accessible options. Our "Unstuck" podcast is completely free and provides highly relatable conversations and insights.
For those wanting to dive deeper, we also offer paid, self-guided mini-courses, and our professional one-to-one therapy.