Self Esteem

Low self-esteem often began as a survival response: shrinking, fawning, or numbing to stay safe. With the right support, you can:

  • Regulate your nervous system
  • Calm your inner critic
  • Reclaim your voice
  • Remember your worth

Overcoming low self-esteem is less like becoming a new person, and more like finally coming home to yourself.

 

Healing Low Self-Esteem at the Root IFS Therapy

Internal Family System Therapy helps the parts of you that feel small, ashamed, or unworthy feel seen, understood, and unburdened.

Somatic Therapy

Because low self-esteem isn’t just a thought—it’s felt in the body. Through breath, movement, and grounding, we help you release shame and reconnect with your strength.

EMDR therapy to address distorted beliefs

Our culture pushes us to judge ourselves in materialistic and polarizing ways. “Am I a success or a failure?” “Am I being rejected or do I belong?” “What can I do to be loved?” Together, we call out core toxic social & relational injuries, transform them and begin to see yourself through kind & true eyes.

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EMDR helps reprocess painful memories and beliefs like “I’m not good enough” or “I don’t belong.” It supports you in shifting these distorted self-perceptions, so you can begin to see yourself with more truth, compassion, and confidence.

Therapies like IFS (Internal Family Systems), somatic therapy, and attachment-based approaches work well for low self-esteem. They help address both the emotional wounds and body-based patterns behind chronic shame and self-doubt.

Low self-esteem often develops from early relational wounds—times when you didn’t feel seen, safe, or valued. Therapy can help you heal those old patterns and build a new sense of self rooted in worth and connection.

Other issues we treat

Depression

Depression isn’t always obvious. For many people, especially those with a history of trauma, depression doesn’t show up as sadness or tears — it shows up as numbness, fatigue, disconnection, or a sense of not really being here.

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Medical Trauma

Trauma isn’t just about what happened—it’s about how your mind and body had to adapt to survive. Whether the trauma was acute or ongoing, physical or emotional, its imprint can linger in the nervous system as fear, numbness, shame, or disconnection.

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Grief & Loss

Grief can feel like an unpredictable, exhausting tidal force—physical, emotional, and haunting all at once. Whether you’re grieving the finality of death or a more ambiguous loss—a breakup, estrangement, miscarriage, the loss of a role, dream, youth, abilities, innocence, job, home, faith, or worldview—grief shows up when something deeply meaningful is gone.

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Social Anxiety

Social anxiety isn’t just shyness. It’s the deep desire to connect—paired with a nervous system that responds to connection like it’s a threat.

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Career Stress & Burnout

The pressures of modern life are real. The fast pace and multi-dimensional nature of life – work, school, family, social challenges and the baseline intensity of life can inspire us or push us beyond our limits.

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Chronic Pain

Is pain in your body—or your brain? The truth is, pain isn’t just physical. It’s also shaped by your emotions, thoughts, and even your relationships.

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Online therapy

More comfortable at home?

Online therapy lets you connect with our therapists from the safety and ease of your own space; no commute, no waiting room, just support where you feel most at ease.

You’re in the right place

Take the first step toward healing. Get in touch and we’ll walk with you from there.