Schema Therapy-Based Parenting

"The only Schema Therapy-based parenting programme in the world."

What if the parenting challenge your client brings to therapy isn't really about parenting?

A parent who overreacts to defiance. A parent who withdraws when their child is distressed. A parent who knows what to do but consistently can't do it.

Often, what we see isn't just parenting behaviour. We're seeing schemas in action.

Good Enough Parenting (GEP) goes where most parenting programmes don't. While conventional approaches focus on advice and corrective techniques, GEP works at the schema level: the emotional patterns laid down in the parent's own childhood that drive how they respond, react, and repair.

It is grounded directly in Schema Therapy. It is the only parenting programme in the world equipped with psychometrically validated tools for assessing the emotional climate between parent and child. And the facilitator certification gives practitioners concrete, immediately deployable assessment tools and interventions for work with parents, children, adolescents and family systems.

Why this matters

"When we address schema patterns in parents, we interrupt the intergenerational transmission of emotional wounding."

— Dr. John Philip Louis, PhD
Founder, Good Enough Parenting

Accredited: Singapore's MSF FamilyMatters Programme Part of the international Schema Therapy network

What You Will Leave With

Six things you can use from Monday morning

01

Schema assessment of parent-child dynamics

Use validated psychometric tools to assess the emotional climate between parent and child, identifying which schemas are driving it.

02

Schema-informed parenting interventions

Move beyond behavioural advice to schema-level intervention: changing how parents relate to their own emotional responses.

03

Working with the parent's schema history

Understand how the parent's own childhood schemas shape their parenting mode, and what therapeutic leverage points this opens.

04

Intergenerational pattern work

Trace and interrupt the transmission of emotional wounds across generations: a core GEP clinical objective.

05

Integrating GEP with existing clinical work

Map GEP onto your current practice, whether you work in individual therapy, family therapy, groups, or school settings.

06

Facilitating the GEP programme

Deliver the full GEP curriculum with parents, in individual and group formats, with confidence and fidelity to the model.

07

Building healthy positive schemas in children through parents

Support parents in fostering the emotional conditions that develop positive schemas in their children, using the GEP framework as a guide for this generative, forward-looking work.

08

Repair and reconnection across developmental stages

Apply GEP-structured interventions to enable meaningful repair and reconnection between parents and their children at any developmental stage, from early childhood through young adulthood.

Who This Is For

Practitioners who work with parents, children, and families

This certification workshop is designed for mental health, counselling, educational, medical and family-service professionals who work with children, adolescents, parents and families in clinical, school or community settings.

This is a professionally oriented facilitator-certification program. It is especially suitable for psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, therapists, school counsellors, social workers, developmental paediatricians, family therapists, family-life educators and NGO professionals.

Applicants should have relevant professional training, clinical experience or a recognised qualification in a related helping profession.

No prior schema therapy experience is required.

Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
Psychiatrists and Medical Practitioners
Psychotherapists and Counsellors
School Counsellors and Educational Psychologists
Social Workers and Family Therapists
Family Life Educators and NGO Professionals
Developmental Paediatricians

What the fee covers

✓ GEP Facilitator Level 1 Certificate issued by Louis Counselling and Training Services Singapore, and eligibility for the Level 2 Trainer Track
✓ Physical copy of Good Enough Parenting (2nd ed.) by Dr. Louis
✓ All training and presentation materials
✓ Validated psychometric instruments for clinical use
✓ Catered lunch and tea/coffee on both days
✓ Permission to use GEP framework in client sessions and groups (up to 15)

Your Trainer

Get trained by the person who built the program

Dr. John Philip Louis, founder of Good Enough Parenting

Dr. John Philip Louis, PhD

Founder, Good Enough Parenting
ISST Certified Schema Therapist,
Supervisor & Trainer

Dr. John Philip Louis holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the United Kingdom. He was trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young (Columbia University), the founder of Schema Therapy, and has been a Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer with the International Society for Schema Therapy since 2011. His research has contributed to the advancement of Young's original schema model, particularly through the development of the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ), which expanded the therapeutic framework and situated it within the domain of positive clinical psychology. He has also developed several other psychometrically validated instruments — the Positive Parenting Schema Inventory (PPSI), the Young Parenting Inventory–Revised (YPI-R3), and the Love and Respect Marriage Scale. These measures assess the emotional climate within families and marriages, as well as relational and individual strengths. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, and these instruments are currently used and translated in over 30 countries. Dr. Louis is also a Chartered Psychologist in the United Kingdom, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas, USA, and a Registered Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor in Singapore.

Since launching the innovative Good Enough Parenting (GEP) program in 2009, Dr. Louis and his wife, Karen, have trained over 1,000 facilitators across more than 30 countries spanning Asia, Europe, North America, Australia, Central and South America, and Africa. The GEP program has been widely implemented in government and private schools, as well as in for-profit and non-profit organisations in Singapore, Malaysia, and other parts of the world. It has also received endorsements from the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato' Seri Dr. Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail.

This is India's first ever in-person GEP facilitator certification delivered by the program creator.

What Experts Say

Endorsed by leaders in Schema Therapy

"This ground-breaking book will help parents raise healthier children, and when they grow up, healthier and more successful adults. I highly recommend it."

The Late Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
International Bestselling Author · Healing the Child Within

"In a world of too much information, Good Enough Parenting teaches parents how to meet core emotional needs, and, at the same time, how to avoid passing down their own dysfunctional behaviors. Schema Therapy has been successful with adults, but I have always wanted to see someone do something like this for children, and here it is!"

Dr. Jeffrey Young
Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York · Founder, Schema Therapy · Author, Reinventing Your Life

"GEP takes an in-depth look at the before, during and after of parenting — none as practical and beneficial. A MUST for every professional working with families."

Dr. William R. Scott
Educational Psychologist · Florida, USA

"This handbook presents a detailed and scientifically based schema perspective on parenting, linking theoretical knowledge with expressive examples from everyday life (including from the authors' own family) plus vivid cartoons. The tone of the book is non-judgemental, warm and encouraging, while the title 'Good Enough Parenting' cautions us against unrelenting standards."

Dr. Eckhart Roediger, M.D.
Former President, International Society of Schema Therapy, Germany

"In Good Enough Parenting, John and Karen Louis put powerful new understandings and tools into parents' hands and show them, with an engaging blend of clarity, authority, warmth, openness and humility, exactly how to use these to transform the quiet day to day moments, common challenges and emotional crises of parenthood into opportunities to set their children on the path to flourishing as adults. In this first of its kind guide, John and Karen integrate the insights and strategies of an important new approach to meeting core emotional needs, Schema Therapy, with the latest research related to parenting."

Dr. George Lockwood
Director, Schema Therapy Institute, Michigan, USA

"The heart of practicing Schema Therapy is healing the wounds and trauma created in childhood as parents fail to meet the core emotional needs of their children. With characteristic humor, insight and commitment to an inner life, John and Karen Louis address a need of Schema Therapy in offering a practical guide for raising children with an understanding of core emotional needs and what is required to meet them. They combine experience as parents, therapists and church leaders to offer a valuable perspective on raising happy and emotionally healthy children."

The Late Catherine Amon
Cognitive Therapy Centre of New York · USA

Registration

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1. Who May Attend

This certification workshop is designed for mental health, counselling, educational, medical and family-service professionals who work with children, adolescents, parents and families. It is especially suitable for psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, therapists, school counsellors, social workers, developmental paediatricians, family therapists, family-life educators and NGO professionals. Applicants should have relevant professional training, clinical experience or a recognised qualification in a related helping profession. The Practice Commons reserves the right to decline a registration where eligibility criteria are not met, in which case a full refund will be issued.

2. Registration and Payment

Your seat is confirmed only when full payment has been received and verified. Submitting a registration form without payment does not hold or reserve a seat. Seats are allocated on a strictly first-come, first-served basis. A confirmation email will be sent within 3 working days of payment being received.

The Early Bird fee of ₹38,000 (exclusive of 18% GST, totalling ₹44,840) is available only for payments received on or before midnight on 1 July 2026. No extensions to this deadline will be made. Payments received after 1 July 2026 will be processed at the Standard rate of ₹45,000 (exclusive of 18% GST, totalling ₹53,100).

A group discount of 10% applies when three or more participants from the same organisation register on a single invoice. Group bookings must be submitted together and paid in a single transaction.

3. What Is Included

The registration fee covers, for each confirmed participant:

Qualification as a Certified GEP Facilitator (Level 1), with permission to apply the GEP framework in individual client sessions and small group discussions of up to 15 participants, subject to full attendance on both days.
One physical copy of Good Enough Parenting (2nd edition) by Dr. John Philip Louis & Karen McDonald Louis.
All training and presentation materials for the workshop.
Validated psychometric instruments and Schema Therapy tools for use in clinical practice, subject to ethical norms.
Catered lunch and tea/coffee on both days.

4. Cancellation and Refund Policy

All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to connect@practicecommons.in with the subject line: Cancellation-GEP Workshop October 2026.

Notice Given	Refund	Notes
More than 90 days	Full refund	Less payment gateway fee (~2%)
60–90 days	50% of fee paid	Remaining 50% non-refundable
Fewer than 60 days	No refund	Full fee forfeited
Non-attendance without notice	No refund	Full fee forfeited

Transfers: A confirmed participant may request a one-time transfer to a future edition (subject to availability), provided the request is made in writing at least 60 days before the workshop date. A transfer fee of ₹2,000 + GST applies.

Substitutions: You may substitute your place with another eligible participant, provided the request is made in writing at least 7 days before the workshop and a substitution fee of ₹1,000 + GST is paid.

5. Cancellation by the Organiser

The Practice Commons reserves the right to cancel this workshop in the event of circumstances beyond its reasonable control. In such cases, all registered participants will receive a full refund of fees paid. The Organiser's liability is strictly limited to this refund and does not extend to travel, accommodation, or any other costs incurred by participants.

6. Certification Conditions

The GEP Facilitator Level 1 Certificate is issued by Louis Counselling & Training Services, Singapore and will be provided only to participants who attend all sessions on both days. Partial attendance does not qualify for certification. Certificates will be despatched within 6 weeks of the workshop date.

The Facilitator Level 1 Certificate does not permit the holder to train other professionals as GEP Facilitators, to adapt or reproduce GEP programme materials, or to use the GEP name or branding in commercial promotion without prior written permission from LCTS Singapore.

7. Intellectual Property

All training content, psychometric instruments, programme frameworks, and materials shared are the intellectual property of Louis Counselling & Training Services, Singapore and/or Dr. John Philip Louis. Participants may not reproduce, adapt, distribute, or commercially use any of these materials without prior written consent. Audio or video recording of any part of the workshop is not permitted.

8. Privacy

Personal information provided at registration will be used only for workshop administration, communication, and certificate issuance. It will not be sold or shared with third parties, except as necessary for certificate issuance by LCTS Singapore. By registering, you consent to being added to The Practice Commons mailing list for programme updates; you may unsubscribe at any time.

9. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New Delhi.

These terms apply to the Good Enough Parenting Facilitator Level 1 Certification Workshop, New Delhi, October 2026, organised by The Practice Commons (Umae Sanctuaries LLP). GEP is a registered programme of Louis Counselling & Training Services Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

Tier	Fee (excl. GST)	Total incl. 18% GST	Valid Until
Early Bird	₹38,000	₹44,840	1 July 2026
Standard	₹45,000	₹53,100	From 2 July 2026
Group (3+ together)	10% off whichever tier applies	Per-head rate discounted	Single invoice required

Good Enough Parenting
Facilitator Level 1 Certification

"The only Schema Therapy-based parenting programme in the world."

A programme backed by 18 peer-reviewed publications

Six things you can use from Monday morning