Czech Republic Schema Therapy Training Programs

The First Institute of Schema Therapy: Czech Republic & Slovakia

Training Director: Beata Pašková

Email: CONTACT

Website: www.schematerapie.cz

Phone and Fax Number (s): +44 7917686896

ISST  approved Certification Training Programs in Individual Schema Therapy

from October 13, 2018

Branch: Individual Schema Therapy Certification Program Czech Republic

Branch : Individual Schema Therapy Certification Program Slovakia

The First Institute of Schema Therapy: Czech Republic & Slovakia was founded by Beáta Pašková, ISST certified trainer/supervisor,  in October 2018 on the basis of her long-term interest, formal training and enthusiasm for Schema therapy. It is the only ISST certified Training center for Czech Republic and Slovakia and  has an objective to introduce into the both countries this progressive psychotherapeutic method, which shows the significant effectiveness in clinical trials. The primary objective of the Institute is to introduce this innovative method in the native languages, Czech and Slovak. Therefore it has two branches of the training programmes - Individual Schema Therapy Certification Program Czech Republic and Individual Schema Therapy Certification Program Slovakia. The base for this bilinqual modality  is that Beata has born in Slovakia (previous Czechoslovakia) where she lived for 20 years of her life and completed 2 years of her medical training. Further life and trainings continued in Czech Republic, where Beata completed her full medical training, specialist training in psychiatry and  training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Moreover, Beata also completed her accredited training in Cognitive-behavioural therapy in Slovakia. Beata is therefore fluent in both languages on the professional level. Beata trained in individual Schema Therapy in London and with Farrell & Shaw for Group ST. At the moment, Beata is the only ISST certified Trainer and Supervisor for both countries.

After completion of her schema therapy training in UK and obtaining Trainer/Supervisor status Beata was appointed to be the ISST Regional Coordinator for Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Institute is intended as a training center  in Individual and also Group Schema therapy. Group ST is provided by Joan Farrell and Ida Shaw, who are faculty of the institute and bring with them their ISST approved certification program in Group ST. Their training and supervsision allows institute enrolees to complete the requirements for ISST certification in Group ST.

Addditional activities of the Institute are to provide:

• workshops with a specific focus on certain problems or techniques
• supervisions and session ratings for  trainees from both countries
• distribution of literature, forms, questionnaires and other materials approved by ISST
• presentation of interesting foreign guests, specialists in the field of schema therapy, personality disorders, child-adolescent, couples etc.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Schema Minds 
(Individual Schema Training Programme for Adults)

Training Director: Hilary Kloss

Email: CONTACT

Website: https://hilarykloss.com/

Phone and Fax Number (s): +420 775 243 472

ISST-Approved Certification Training Program for Individual Schema Therapy

Branch: Individual Schema Therapy Certification Program, Czech Republic

Schema Minds Schema Therapy Training Program was founded by ISST-certified Trainer Supervisor Hilary Kloss in January 2026 as the first solely English-language schema therapy training programme in the Czech Republic.

Although Hilary is originally from Ireland, she has lived in Prague with her family since 2013. Prior to that she lived in the UK, where she trained as a Clinical Psychologist. She then spent several years working as a Senior Clinical Psychologist in the NHS, where she first trained in Schema Therapy and developed a strong and enduring passion for the model.

After relocating to Prague, Hilary established a busy private practice which she continues to run, providing assessement and therspy to clients, and professional supervision to therapists. When Schema Therapy was first formally introduced in the Czech Republic in 2019 under Beata Pašková’s First Institute of Schema Therapy, Hilary continued her Schema Therapy journey, becoming a certified Trainer in 2025..

The establishment of Schema Minds reflects a commitment to expanding access to high-quality, internationally aligned training in Central Europe. The programme is designed to provide local, expat and international therapists with the opportunity to train in Schema Therapy in English, supporting competence, fidelity to the model, and the continued dissemination of Schema Therapy within the region.

Currently delivered in person in Prague, the programme may expand to delivering other workshops and an online format in the future.