Psychotherapy for Self-Worth and Impostor Syndrome

Many of the people who come to me are doing well by every external measure. Career, education, family. And yet there is a private experience of not being enough, of having got there by accident, of waiting to be exposed.

This is not a vague feeling. It has a name in the literature: impostor syndrome, first described by Pauline Rose Clance in the 1970s. It is one of the most common reasons high-functioning adults end up in therapy.

Therapy for self-worth is not about pep talk or affirmation. It is about understanding where the gap between how you are seen and how you feel actually comes from. What it is protecting. What it cost to build. And what becomes possible when it loosens.

I draw on psychodynamic work, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), integrated to the specific person in front of me.

All sessions are online. If this sounds familiar, the first step is an initial consultation.