Schemas in Coaching Supervision

Every coach brings three things to supervision: a client, a question, and themselves. The third is often where the answer is.

Schemas in Coaching Supervision brings the schema model, developed by Jeffrey Young and widely used in schema therapy, into coaching supervision. It gives supervisors a clear, shared language for the patterns that keep coaching stuck: in the client, in the coach, and in the supervisor.

Why does one coach keep rescuing clients? Why does another go quiet with senior leaders? Why does a supervisor correct one coach and go soft with the next? Daniela Aneva shows how early maladaptive schemas, coping styles, and modes surface in real sessions, and how to work with them without labeling anyone or drifting into therapy.

Inside you'll find:

• The eighteen schemas and five core needs, translated for coaches and supervisors
• Mirror, Lock, and Clash: how coach and client patterns combine and keep coaching stuck
• Parallel process and the supervisor's own schemas, seen through a schema lens
• Bounded methods for supervision: case formulation, imagery, chair work, and pattern-breaking
• Applications to group, team, internal, health and wellness, and AI-supported coaching, including a proposal for client-side supervision of pure AI coaching
• The ICF and EMCC Global supervision competency frameworks compared through the schema lens
• Clear guidance on ethics, the coaching-therapy boundary, and referral
• A field kit of original worksheets, a quick-reference atlas, and annotated sample session transcripts built on the Seven-Eyed Model

Every chapter combines core ideas, research, a composite case study, practical tools, and clear use in coaching supervision. Grounded in evidence, written in plain language, and firm about the line between coaching and therapy, this book is for coaching supervisors, supervisors in training, and experienced coaches who want to understand the patterns behind their work, starting with their own.

Daniela Aneva, MCC, is the founder and CEO of MentorsPro, co-founder of EMCC USA, and one of the leaders of the ICF Community of Practice for Coaching Supervision. She is an EMCC-accredited coaching supervisor, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and the author of Schemas in Leadership.