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Wendy Behary

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman in 2004 at the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of NYC. She was also a delightful and regular participant in the institute’s peer supervision group until she moved back to Argentina.
Since 2004, Patricia has participated in numerous trainings in Jeff Young’s and my institute (now known as The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC) both in-person and online. Her thoughtful contributions consistently add value to the programs.
As one of the master supervisors in our official Schema Therapy Training and Certification program, she works with our trainees in breakout rooms helping them with applications of schema therapy strategies.
With more than 25 years of clinical experience, Patricia is a bright, warm, and highly skilled schema therapy supervisor and trainer. Her ISST-approved training institute offers clinicians the opportunity to receive an exceptional, comprehensive, and practical learning experience. Patricia is an exemplary professional and I strongly recommend her as a schema therapist, supervisor, and trainer.

Wendy Behary | Director, The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC | Author, Disarming the Narcissist and Deliberate Practice- Schema Therapy | Former President, International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST)

Wendy Behary

Joan Farrell

Dr. Rotman is a highly skilled and compassionate trainer and supervisor of schema therapy (ST). She has dedicated herself to developing ST for trauma and bringing ST to the Spanish-speaking world. She continues to study and train to stay current with ST developments. She is active in the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) and contributes to international efforts in research and training. I recommend her to you as an excellent choice as a supervisor or a trainer.

Joan Farrell, Ph.D. | Director, Schema Therapy Institute Midwest – Indianapolis |Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology | Purdue University, Indianapolis | Founding and Honorary Member ISST | Author of: Group Schema Therapy for BPD, Wiley, 2012; The Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide, Wiley, 2014; Experiencing ST from the Inside Out, Guilford, 2018; and The Deliberate Practice of Schema Therapy, APA Press, 2023.

Remco van der Wijngaart

Patricia Rotman is an extremely talented, bright and wise friend and colleague with an impressive deep understanding of schema therapy. I personally enjoy the frequent talks with her on different topics, such as imagery rescripting and always learn a lot from her. She is a warm and passionate person bringing a lot of life and energy into her training. I highly recommend signing up for one of her trainings.

Remco van der Wijngaart | Director/Owner Dutch Institute for Schema therapy | Vice President ISST 2016-2018

Remco van der Wijngaart

Remco van der Wijngaart | Director/Owner Dutch Institute for Schema therapy | Vice President ISST 2016-2018

Robin Spiro

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is an enthusiastic Schema Therapy trainer who bases her clinical strategies on research studies and her extensive professional experience. She was trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young, creator of Schema Therapy and by the best trainers of the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST). Dr. Rotman is a warm and competent clinical supervisor dedicated to the expansion of Schema Therapy in Latin America and Spain. I highly recommend her trainings!

Robin Spiro, LCSW | Advanced Certified Schema Therapist | Supervisor and Trainer | Clinical Supervisor at Dr. Jeffrey Young and Wendy Behary’s Institute | Specialist in Trauma and Dissociation Springfield, New Jersey, United States

Elizabeth Lacy LCSW

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is a compassionate, motivated and highly competent Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Outline Therapy Trainer. Her vast experience includes, among others, participating in the triage center during the 9/11 tragedy to being a Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Patricia has a lively, warm and stimulating style. I highly recommend Patricia as a trainer!

Elizabeth Lacy, LCSW, PLLC – New York City, United States | Addiction Specialist | Clinical Supervisor at Dr. Jeffrey Young and Wendy Behary’ s Institute – New York, United States

Elizabeth Lacey

Elizabeth Lacy, LCSW, PLLC – New York City, United States | Addiction Specialist | Clinical Supervisor at Dr. Jeffrey Young and Wendy Behary’ s Institute – New York, United States

Marsha Blank

I have known Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman for almost 15 years in the Peer Supervision group at the New York Cognitive Center/Schema Therapy Institute. Patricia’s clinical case presentations were always excellent, detailed and with excellent conceptualizations of her patients. I learned many clinical strategies from her. Patricia is a professional who is highly motivated to provide excellent psychotherapy to her clients. She is innovative, creative and compassionate. Patricia has developed Schema Therapy for patients with acute trauma. I have attended some of her trainings and I can say that her approach to training is informative and engaging. She is an excellent trainer and also an excellent supervisor.

Marsha Blank, MA, LCSW | Clinical Supervisor at Dr. Jeffrey Young and Wendy Behary’ s Institute | Schema Therapist for Children, Adolescents, Adults and Families at Brooklyn | Advanced Certified Schema Therapist for Children, Adolescents, Adults and Families | International Society of Schema Therapy Certified Supervisor and Trainer | Certified Developmental Somatic Psychotherapist – New York City, United States

Peregrine Kavros

I have had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman for many years. Dr. Rotman is a kind and caring clinical psychologist who brings a valuable combination of talent and sensitivity to her work with her patients, as well as to her trainings. We participated together for many years in New York City in a peer group in which we discussed clinical cases. Dr. Rotman impressed me with her impressive knowledge and application of clinical theories and strategies with her patients, for whom she obviously cared deeply. It is a pleasure to prepare this note of appreciation.

Peregrine Kavros

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Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman has been my Schema Therapy trainer and is now my supervisor. Doing my training with her has been a very practical and growth–promoting personal and professional experience. I realized that Schema Therapy is a therapeutic model with a solid theoretical basis that is associated with an integrative and compassionate approach. Thanks to the integrative nature of this model, we can create new clinical options.

Patricia is a skilled trainer and supervisor who generously shares her knowledge and expertise. As a result, I am a better clinician and can offer my patients a better life.

Thank you, Argentinean-American Institute, for offering us, psychologists and psychiatrists, top notch trainings and supervisions!

Lic. Ilana Tyntenfisz | Collaborator of Argentinian-American Schema Therapy Institute | Clinical Psychologist | EMDR and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology | Schema Therapy trainee currently under supervision

Patricia is a skilled trainer and supervisor who generously shares her knowledge and expertise. As a result, I am a better clinician and can offer my patients a better life.

Thank you, Argentinean-American Institute, for offering us, psychologists and psychiatrists, top notch trainings and supervisions!

Doing the basic training in Schema Therapy and supervisions with Dr. Patricia has been a very valuable training experience. Dr. Patricia makes sure that the training is very participative and that there is room for questions. I especially found the Role Plays, which are based on real clinical cases, very useful. The classes gave me the feeling of understanding in a theoretical and practical way the clinical strategies of Schema Therapy. The supervisions are also very practical and oriented to solve questions about small and big challenges of clinical practice. The clinical tools I have received from Schema Therapy and training with Dr. Patricia have given me much more confidence as a psychotherapist, and I have noticed with my patients the value of these tools in helping them understand and overcome their patterns of suffering.

José H. López | Psychologist – psychotherapist | Collaborator of Argentinian-American Schema Therapy Institute | Master in Cognitive Psychology – University of Buenos Aires | Specialization in Clinical Psychology – Universidad de San Buenaventura (in progress) | In process of Schema Therapy Supervision.

The training in schema therapy has provided me with several useful tools and contributions for my professional practice, which is why I recommend it. However, I think it is important to emphasize that it must be accompanied by a supervision process to consolidate the acquired knowledge and the best management of the tools. Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is a very skilled therapist and supervisor with extensive experience and a lot of knowledge to offer.

Glenda Frias
Psychologist – psychotherapist
Cochabamba-Bolivia

I had the chance to do the Schema Therapy Training in the Argentinian-American Schema Therapy Institute. Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is a highly experienced trainer who is very generous with her knowledge. Her trainings have an excellent theoretical component but are mainly practical and experiential. Patricia’s institute also organizes interesting international webinars with prestigious schema therapy experts as guest speakers.

These specialized webinars help us to get updated and refine our schema therapy strategies. I am currently attending schema therapy supervisions and hope to achieve the ISST certification. Each supervision is a great learning experience.

Mag. María Paula Varela | Licensed Clinical Psychologist | EMDR and CBT | Therapist Health and Lifestyle Coach | Schema Therapy trainee currently under supervision – Montevideo, Uruguay

I fully recommend this training to any colleague who is interested in Schema Therapy. It is an integrative and effective model to treat patients with diverse pathologies.

I enjoyed having the opportunity to share personal and professional experiences with other Spanish- speaking colleagues. Other benefits of this training include its emphasis on practical strategies and its online modality, which enables us to participate even if we live and work in different parts of the world.

Dr. Rotman is an excellent communicator and therapist who shares all her knowledge and clinical experience. This leads to the excellence of her training.

Teresa Montalvo Calahorra | Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Specialized in Children and Adolescent Psychotherapy | Family Therapy and EMDR Expert – Madrid, Spain

I fully recommend this training to any colleague who is interested in Schema Therapy. It is an integrative and effective model to treat patients with diverse pathologies.

Dr. Rotman is an excellent communicator and therapist who shares all her knowledge and clinical experience. This leads to the excellence of her training.

Teresa Montalvo Calahorra | Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Specialized in Children and Adolescent Psychotherapy | Family Therapy and EMDR Expert – Madrid, Spain

I did my Schema Therapy supervisory process with Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman. These supervisions led me to get the Advanced Certification as a Schema Therapist. This was a very rich learning experience. Patricia has an extensive experience in working with severe patients. Her trajectory not only includes her training in Schema Therapy but also her trainings with the creators of other evidence-based models.

Esther Lorente | Collaborator at the Argentinian-American Schema Therapy Institute | Clinical Psychologist | MPhil in Psychiatry | Advanced Certification in Schema Therapy – Valencia, Spain

Thanks to the training and supervision of Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman, I was able to expand my tools and knowledge to provide better care to my patients, achieving certification as a therapist in Schema Therapies, being highly recommended such training, both for its explanatory quality, training, empathy and human quality.

Patricia Rotman Is a top expert in Schema Therapy. She is an excellent speaker and teacher who cares that her audience really understands the theory as well as how to implement the strategies. Also, she provides top level treatment to her patients. She is a leader in the field.

Scott Shapiro MD – Harvard Medical School | Advanced Certification in Schema Therapy | ADHD Expert – New York, United States

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman (New York, USA – Argentina) is very warm and one of the most generous professionals in the environment. She offers everything and more, she really wants to share her vast knowledge and experience, it clearly shows. She has an excellent training and so she transmits her teaching in her classes, which are very dynamic, didactic, full of challenges and clinical examples that approach both the expert therapist (in other models) and the novice with the new Schema Therapy, whose approach involves a rich scientific theoretical foundation and a wide range of effective tools to achieve the recovery, development and health of the patient in an integral way. I recommend her 100% as a therapist, supervisor and official trainer. 5 Stars.

Lourdes Leoz | Clinical Psychologist | Professor (University of Buenos Aires) | Certified EMDR therapist with 15 years of experience in the Treatment of Psychic Trauma | International Training with Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman (First Part) – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman has been my Schema Therapy clinical supervisor. She helped me to be my best version. She is an excellent and reliable professional. It has been very enjoyable to work with her.

Dr. Nadia Sanza | Clinical Psychologist | Individual and Couples EFT | Advanced Certification in Schema Therapy – Potenza, Italy

Patricia is a true expert in the area of trauma both as a therapist and trainer. Not only is Patricia the coordinator of the ISST Trauma Special Interest Group, she also regularly provides training on trauma to international audiences. Patricia is a warm and genuinely caring person, with both the ability and dedication to ease the distress experienced by people who have a history of recent or past traumatic events and are suffering complex trauma. I am often touched by Patricia’s capacity to care for the suffering of all people.

Nadene van der Linden | Clinical Psychologist | Consultant and EMDR Therapist | Advanced Certification in Schema Therapy – Perth, Australia

In 2021 I had the chance to do the Shema Therapy Training. During this training, I realized how this model nurtured me and filled a gap in my clinical skills, mainly when working with severe patients with personality disorders.

By sharing with us both theoretical conceptualizations and experiential and behavioral strategies, Patricia was able to demonstrate how this creative and evidence-based model can help patients.

This training has been a landmark in my professional development. In order to further my schema therapy skills, I began attending supervisions with Dr. Rotman. My goal is to also obtain the advanced schema therapy certification.

I am going through the second stage of this process and have realized that my self-confidence as a therapist has significantly grown. I am very thankful to Dr. Rotman for her huge generosity in sharing her knowledge about Schema Therapy.

Lic. Marcos Irrazabal | Clinical Psychologist and Researcher | Ph.D. in Psychology (in process) | Schema Therapy trainee currently under supervision – Buenos Aires, Argentina

With great appreciation to Patricia for the experience gained through the supervisions and learning projects. I would like to express my great appreciation to Patricia for the experience gained through the supervisions and learning projects. Thank you very much for the way you openly share your professional experience and original therapy methods. For me personally, your seminars on PTSD were a very interesting and rich experience. You include not only theoretical material, but also very revealing demonstrations of therapeutic sessions, which allow us not only to imagine the strategies but to actually see them in action. It helps me to observe the details of these techniques as well as the therapeutic outcome.

Each of our supervisions inspires me to do better work with complex patients. You are fulfilling many future psychotherapists’ dreams of acquiring knowledge and experience that will help them to do good clinical work. I wish you the best for your upcoming interesting projects. I will be grateful for being able to continue being part of your audience.

Tetiana Riakhovska | Clinical Psychologist | Trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | Schema Therapist – Kiev, Ukraine.

I participated in the schema therapy training with Patricia Escudero Rotman and I really liked this methodology as it integrates different approaches through therapeutic tools such as Rescriptive Imagery which I loved. Recognizing each maladaptive childhood schema and the ways of coping allows the patient a better understanding of their thoughts, emotions and behaviors and shows them a path towards the healing of their attachments through the discovery and strengthening of their adult part and the mothering of their inner child.

María Fernanda Moreno | Psychotherapist | Schema Therapy Training
Argentine American Schema Therapy | Integral Link Integral Therapist – Cali, Colombia

I did not know anything about Schema Therapy so it was a very enriching training. I want to continue doing more training in the model and I am going to start clinical supervisions.

Mariela Lucero | Clinical Psychologist | Mag. in Psychotherapy | Professor of the School of Psychology of the UNSL Clinical Psychologist – San Luis, Argentina

I did not know anything about Schema Therapy so it was a very enriching training. I want to continue doing more training in the model and I am going to start clinical supervisions.

Mariela Lucero | Clinical Psychologist | Mag. in Psychotherapy | Professor of the School of Psychology of the UNSL Clinical Psychologist – San Luis, Argentina

My name is David Monsalve, I am a psychologist since 1999, with 20 years of experience in the area of social reintegration of persons sentenced to alternative sentences (to imprisonment) and in university teaching in the forensic and clinical areas. I have done formal studies in brief dynamic therapy, systemic therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and forensic intervention.

My interest in schema therapy came from the search for a systematic model that would allow me to complement the tools I currently use and to have an orderly view, strongly fed by evidence and that would help me to be more effective with my clients in the public and private practice. Now, I chose the Argentine – American Schema Therapy program because, when I reviewed it, I realized the enormous variety of topics it covers, the professional quality of its trainer and the ease of taking this online training. For all these reasons, it seemed to me the best alternative to invest my efforts.

David Monsalve | Diploma in Dynamic Psychotherapies | Master in Socio-Legal Family Intervention | Diploma in Addictions, Domestic and Sexual Violence – Concepción, Chile

Since I did the training in Argentine-American Schema Therapy I am a better professional. I can better understand my patients, link their problems with their early emotional wounds and help them to have a more pleasant life.

Laura Aragón.
Clinical Psychologist.
Specialist in Mood and Anxiety Disorders.
Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia

In 2021 I completed the official Schema Therapy Training with Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman. Since then, I have been attending clinical schema therapy supervisions with her. My goal is to deepen my knowledge and improve my clinical skills. I have learnt and continue learning a lot from her teachings.

Schema Therapy is a model that helps my everyday clinical work as a psychologist. It is especially effective when I have severe patients who are refractory to other therapies.

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is a highly trained and experienced schema therapist. She is a certified trainer and supervisor and is very committed to making the model known in Spain and Latin America. I fully recommend her trainings.

Federico Plá | Lic. in Psychology | Cognitive Behavioral Therapist | Training in Schema Therapy | Schema Therapy trainee currently under supervision – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Patricia Escudero Rotman is an exceptional schema therapist, trainer, and supervisor, with a particular expertise in treating trauma. With years of professional experience, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her work. Her structured and practice-oriented approach to teaching makes learning from her a pleasure. She is a skilled and empathetic supervisor who provides valuable feedback to her supervisees. This helps them to build confidence and competence. Dr. Rotman’s s exceptional abilities as a schema therapist are evident in her deep understanding of the schema therapy model and its application in complex psychological issues, particularly trauma-related disorders. Her genuine care and compassion for others are evident in all aspects of her work, making her an excellent collaborator and a true asset to the schema therapy community.

Maria Grishkina, PhD | Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Neurologist | Advanced Certified Schema Therapist and Supervisor | Licensed Mental Health Counselor – Florida, USA

It is my privilege to know Doctor Patricia Rotman as a great schema therapy therapist, supervisor and trainer and dear colleague. I am happy to work with, consult clinical cases with and learn from her. Dr Rotman has a great expertise in treating traumatized patients, especially those who suffer from acute trauma and complex trauma. She has been in the field for many years, providing schema therapy to many clients and sharing the schema therapy model with lots of trainees and supervisees. She has a big, empathic heart for people who suffer and she always tries to help them with her best knowledge and experience. Patricia spends many hours looking for appropriate interventions and good solutions. She is also a very efficient organizer of interesting and inspiring workshops and webinars that always broaden my therapeutic perspective. She is very helpful and supportive to colleagues who want to learn and she shares what she knows in a kind, nonjudgmental atmosphere, which is priceless. Regardless of having many years of experience, she remains very open to learning new things, which is worth appreciating. I truly enjoy our professional and personal connection.

Ágata Muszynska | Clinical Psychologist | Specialist in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Official Trainer International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) – Warsaw, Poland

The supervisions with Dr. Escudero Rotman are of great value for the implementation of the Model both with patients and with the therapist’s personal work. Patricia is very dedicated and generous in the transmission of therapeutic resources and especially experiential techniques. I am very satisfied with the supervisions and I recommend them!

Lorena De Rosa | Ph.D. in Psychology in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) | Cognitive Behavioral Therapist | Teacher and researcher UBA

It is a great honor for me to share how I came to know Patricia and her work. Patricia has created a milestone in which she has made the wonderful and for so many patients helpful schema therapeutic work not only spread in Argentina but to a large community of Latin American therapists by founding her ST-Institute in Buenos Aires. I have known Patricia both as a ST colleague for a long time and now I am grateful to know her also as a friend and to be able to share many things with her. I have come to know her as an extraordinarily dedicated, free-spirited, intelligent woman who devotes incredible energy, knowledge and power to spreading the wisdom of schema therapy.

She is one of the few people who was in the honor to learn schema therapy directly from the founder of ST, Jeffrey Joung and his immediate students like Wendy Behary, during her time in New York (we are also connected by this experience, which I was able to share in Germany). In addition, Patricia has an extraordinary amount of experience in the field of trauma therapy, which can be directly brought into the schema-therapeutic work and fruitfully combined. Patricia is a woman who wants to pass on and share her experience and knowledge with extraordinary commitment – even beyond the financial interests of her institute: For example, she founded a &quot;Special interst group for Trauma&quot; , which has many interested participants worldwide via Zoom, who discuss these all most difficult issues together in open dialogue and seek solutions.

Patricia shares the recordings of the above interest group with those who could not participate! And this is all about sharing knowledge and experience! That makes Patricia a very special person, who is all about the cause itself! And that Patricia is furthermore a woman who has and wants to offer help not only to her patients but to all people in need, I know at the latest since the many meetings we have participated in together with the Ukrainian colleagues since the beginning of the war in order to find concrete support possibilities. Here, too, Patricia has been extraordinarily generous and has provided the greatest support to the Ukrainian colleagues with her recorded seminars. I am extremely grateful – as one of the first schema therapists in Germany – to have found in Patricia a professionally and humanly wonderful colleague and friend in common cause.

Susan Mehraein | Doctor of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurologist : University of Freiburg, Germany | CBT, IPT and CBASP Supervisor : International Schema Therapy Certification : Advanced Level (ISST)

It has been a great experience to have the training in schema therapy with Dr. Patricia. For a long time I was looking for a good training in this integral approach and taking it with her was the best decision. Besides knowing this model very well, she gives a very valuable contribution with her methodological creativity and with her continuous dialogue with colleagues from USA and Europe. I hope that many more can take advantage of this experience and see the improvement in the patients that we see day by day. Thank you so much Patricia!

“Having Patricia as a trainer and supervisor has been a luxury for me. Although I have had clinical and therapeutic experience in CBT for years, with her I was able to learn not only Schema Therapy in a theoretical way, but also in an experiential way. They were very enriching meetings both professionally and humanly. I am always grateful for your accompaniment in this process and that you are an important part of my current achievements as Director of the Scheme Therapy Institute of Peru. Thank you from the bottom of my heart dear Patricia”.