- Recorded Webinar
Emotionally Immature Parents Masterclass: Healing Adult Wounds & Enduring Patterns (RV)
Wendy Behary, LCSW
- Recorded Webinar
Overview:
Adults raised by emotionally immature parents often present with complex interpersonal challenges. Many appear successful, capable, and high-functioning on the outside — yet internally they struggle with a profound sense of loneliness, shame, self-doubt, mistrust, fear of conflict, and excessive responsibility for the emotional welfare of others while forfeiting their own needs. Standard therapeutic approaches often miss the developmental origins of these patterns, leaving clients stuck in cycles of self-sacrifice, perfectionism, and disconnection they cannot name.
This 6-hour clinical training explores the long-term impact of caregiver neglect through the comprehensive lens of Schema Therapy. Learn how early experiences of emotional unavailability, instability, lack of empathy, excessive criticism, parentification of the child, exploitation, or failure to encourage self-identity contribute to the development of Early Maladaptive Schemas and enduring self-defeating coping patterns. Grounded in Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy model, this workshop examines how children adapt to unmet core emotional needs through protective strategies that later become sources of adult suffering. Explore common schema patterns among adult children of emotionally immature parents — including Emotional Deprivation, Defectiveness/Shame, Abandonment, Mistrust, Enmeshment, Subjugation, Self-Sacrifice, Unrelenting Standards, and Approval Seeking — along with the protective modes that maintain them.
Through clinical examples, case conceptualization, experiential exercises, and intervention demonstrations, learn how to help clients move beyond understanding into corrective emotional experiences that meet unmet needs and fortify a sturdy Healthy Adult mode framed in connection and autonomy. Emphasis is placed on Schema Therapy interventions including empathic confrontation, limited reparenting, imagery rescripting, chair dialogues, mode work, and navigating the therapist’s own schemas and stuck places in the treatment relationship.
Designed for licensed mental health professionals treating adult clients whose current struggles have roots in emotionally immature or neglectful early caregiving.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Assess and conceptualize the impact of emotionally immature parenting through the Schema Therapy framework of unmet core emotional needs and Early Maladaptive Schema and Schema Mode formation.
- Identify common childhood environments associated with emotionally immature caregiving, including emotional neglect, invalidation, enmeshment, unpredictability, criticism, child-parentification, and lack of emotional attunement.
- Develop treatment formulations for adult clients affected by emotionally immature parenting, integrating schemas, coping styles, schema modes, attachment patterns, and developmental history.
- Recognize the adaptive function of childhood coping responses — including surrender, avoidance, and overcompensation — and understand how these strategies become maladaptive in adult relationships.
- Identify common schema modes in adult children of emotionally immature parents, including the Vulnerable Child, Detached Protector, Compliant Surrenderer, Angry Child, Punitive and Demanding Internal Critic modes, and Healthy Adult modes.
- Apply experiential Schema Therapy interventions to address developmental wounds, including imagery rescripting, limited reparenting, empathic confrontation, mode dialogues, and chairwork.
- Help clients differentiate between appropriate responsibility and excessive emotional responsibility for others, while developing healthier boundaries and self-advocacy.
- Facilitate the strengthening of the Healthy Adult mode to support emotional regulation, self-validation, secure connection, self-compassion, and authentic self-expression.
- Integrate Schema Therapy principles into treatment planning for clients seeking to move from childhood survival strategies toward greater emotional freedom and interpersonal fulfillment.
Scope and Limitations Disclosure
This 6-hour training examines the long-term impact of emotionally immature parenting through the lens of Schema Therapy, including Early Maladaptive Schemas, schema modes, and related coping patterns. Content covers case conceptualization and experiential interventions such as imagery rescripting, limited reparenting, empathic confrontation, and chairwork. This course does not substitute for clinical supervision or specialty training when working with complex, high-risk, or trauma-related presentations. Participants are responsible for applying course content within the boundaries of their individual scope of practice, licensure requirements, and applicable ethical standards. Completion of this training does not confer certification or an independent credential beyond the provider’s certificate of completion.
Commercial Support Disclosure
Ms. Behary is the author of “Disarming the Narcissist” and may reference this and other professional materials she has developed during the presentation. No purchase of any book, program, or material is required to complete this training. No other financial relationships, sponsorships, or commercial support relevant to the content of this activity have been received by the presenter or provider.
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Wendy Behary, LCSW
Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 25 years. Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until the Institutes merged in 2012), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989. She is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck’s Institute). Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014 and served as the Training and Certification Coordinator for the ISST Executive Board from 2008-2010. She is currently the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee for the ISST. Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of an international bestselling book, "Disarming the Narcissist...” translated into 16 languages. The Third Edition was recently released and was selected by Oprah Daily as one of the top books on the subject of Narcissism. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. As an author and subject matter expert on narcissism, she is a contributing chapter author of several chapters on schema therapy for narcissism for professional readers. She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, narcissism, interpersonal relationships, anger, and dealing with difficult people. She receives consistently high praise for her clear and articulate teaching style and her ability to bring the therapy to life through dramatic demonstrations of client interactions in the treatment room. Her work industry business speaking engagements focus on interpersonal conflict resolution. Her private practice is primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.
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Professional Counselors — The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6703. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Addiction Professionals — NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is officially on file with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an Approved Education Provider. They are formally known as NAADAC Provider #139138. Please note that E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Social Workers — Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute, #1706, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 06-03-2026 – 06-03-2029
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- Psychologists — Florida (Home Study Courses), Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, Wyoming
- Addiction Counselors — Kansas, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina
- Other specialized licensees — Tennessee (Clinical Pastoral Therapist), South Carolina (Licensed Psycho-Educational Specialist), New Hampshire (Pastoral)
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- Nevada CPC’s and MFT’s accept ASWB-approved training
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- Rhode Island Board of Mental Health Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council LPC and LPCS accept ASWB approved training
- Utah Division of Professional Licensing – CMHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Washington State Department of Mental Health MHC’s accept ASWB approved training
- Wisconsin Council on Mental Health LPCS accepts ASWB-approved training
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Georgia Addiction Counselor: E Care BHI is recognized by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Certification Board of Georgia as an approved education provider for Addiction Counselors (ADACBGA) #19-12-17-1212.
Florida Addiction Counselor: E Care BHI is recognized by the Florida Certification Board as an approved education provider for Addiction Counselor (FCB) #5387-A.
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy & Mental Health Counseling: The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy & Mental Health Counseling accepts courses from ASWB & NBCC approved providers. E Care Behavioral Health Institute is an ASWB and NBCC approved provider.
Oklahoma Addiction Counselor: E Care BHI is recognized by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors as an approved education provider for Addiction Counselors (OBLADC) #20220136.
Oklahoma Board of Behavioral Health Licensure: E Care BHI is an approved CE provider for LPC & LMFT
Ohio Addiction Counselor: E Care BHI is recognized by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board as an approved education provider for Addiction Counselor (OCDP)#50-29024.
Note: eCare’s OCDP-approved courses are for renewal continuing education only and do not fulfill initial CDCA Preliminary or CDCA certification requirements.
The Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board accepts courses from ASWB & NBCC approved providers. E Care Behavioral Health Institute is an ASWB and NBCC approved provider.
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Texas Certification Board (TCB): E Care Behavioral Health Institute is recognized by the Texas Certification Board as an approved education provider. Number 2041-19
South Carolina E Care Behavioral Health Institute is recognized by the Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board as an approved education provider Provider #4628
New York (MHC) E Care Behavioral Health is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0277
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This program is intended for mental health professionals such as Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Addiction Counselors, & MFT’s. Psychologists are encouraged to verify if this specific course meets their board’s approval requirements.
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