Self-Esteem & Self-Doubt
Self-esteem therapy is for people whose accomplishments never seem to count. You might put every success down to luck or timing, or feel you're always one step away from being found out. Therapy gives you a chance to look at that pattern closely and practice treating yourself with more fairness.
Common Patterns
Self-criticism is learned, and it usually served a purpose at the time, such as keeping you safe, accepted or motivated. We trace it back far enough to see what job it was doing. Understanding that often loosens its hold more than arguing with it does.
We use CBT for the automatic conclusions you draw about yourself, IFS to treat the inner critic as one part of you, and psychodynamic therapy to explore its origins. Self-compassion practices help you build a kinder second voice alongside the critical one.
We also work on behavior, such as asking for what you need, saying no and taking up space, because self-worth changes through action as much as through insight.
You don't have to keep feeling stuck in the same patterns.
