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  • Getting Started
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  • What We Treat
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    • Social Anxiety
    • Panic
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    • Low Self-Esteem
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    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
    • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
    • Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
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Low Self-Esteem

Is your self-critical voice the loudest one in your head? Do you struggle with shame? Do you secretly fear that there’s something wrong with you? If so, you’re not alone. Low self-esteem is one of the most common difficulties we see.

Self-loathing can make everything seem bleak— it can disable our ability to enjoy success, love and closeness with others.

Do you have thoughts like:

  • Something is wrong with me!
  • Why can’t I have it together like other people do?
  • I’m not good enough.
  • I’ll never have what I need.
  • I have to be hard on myself or I’ll get lazy.
  • I’m so messed up!

Thoughts like these can become a constant source of distress. In therapy, we work on moving beyond a focus on these thoughts to a focus on self-compassion. While self-esteem is a feeling that can come and go, self-compassion is a skill you can learn and practice. As one expert phrases it: “Self-compassion is the new self-esteem.”

And because it’s not based on judgment or evaluation, it is more enduring. Through self-compassion you can learn to be nice to yourself, to give yourself the kind of loving response you would give to a friend. You can practice accepting yourself no matter how or who you are. And no, it won’t make you weak. Ask us how!

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“Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from
responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from
the self-hatred that prevents us from
responding to our life with clarity and balance.”
—Tara Brach

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