Self-Esteem & Self-Doubt
For people whose accomplishments never quite make it inside, where every success is filed as luck, timing, or the moment before being found out.
What It Sounds Like
Self-criticism is learned somewhere, and it usually had a job at the time: keeping you safe, keeping you accepted, keeping you moving. We trace it back far enough to see what it was for, which tends to loosen its authority more than arguing with it does.
CBT for the automatic conclusions, IFS for the critic as a part rather than the truth, psychodynamic work for the origin, and self-compassion practices that build a second voice rather than deleting the first one.
We also work on behavior (asking, declining, taking up the space) because self-worth shifts through what you do at least as much as through what you understand.
You don't have to keep feeling stuck in the same patterns.
