Month: October 2025 | Dean Watkins Therapy

Step 3: Learning to Steady Yourself — The Skills That Help You Handle Imposter Feelings

Step 3: Skills to Overcome Imposter Syndrome Part of the Awareness → Action Framework: Four Steps to Working with Imposter Feelings If you’ve followed the first two steps of this series – Awareness and Understanding – you’ll have a clearer picture of what keeps imposter feelings alive and why your mind works the way it does. […]

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Step 2: Understanding – Making Sense of the Mind

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Step 2: Understanding your Imposter Syndrome Part of the Awareness to Action Framework: Four Steps to Working with Imposter Feelings If you’ve followed this series so far, you’ll know that Step 1 (Awareness) is about recognising the patterns that keep imposter feelings alive, learning to notice the triggers, thoughts, and behaviours that pull you into

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You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Why Awareness Is the First Step in Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

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Awareness & Imposter Syndrome When people come to therapy for imposter feelings, they often want to jump straight to the solution:“How do I stop feeling this way?”“How can I finally feel confident?” It’s understandable as feeling like a fraud is exhausting. But the truth is, we can’t change what we don’t yet understand.That’s why the

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From Awareness to Action: A Practical 4-Step Framework for Working With Imposter Syndrome

4 Steps for Imposter Syndrome, Imposter Syndrome Therapy / dwatkins

Ever felt like you’re doing well on paper, but quietly waiting for someone to realise you don’t quite deserve it? Maybe it shows up before a big meeting, when you get positive feedback you can’t quite accept, or when you take on more responsibility and find the self-doubt gets louder rather than quieter. From the

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Pulling It All Together: A Summary of the 5 Imposter Patterns

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The Five Imposter Types Summary Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared a series of posts exploring five common imposter patterns: the Perfectionist, Expert, Soloist, Natural Genius, and Superhuman, as identified by the work of Dr Valerie Young. This final post brings everything together. It’s not another “type” or framework to memorise, it’s a chance to step

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The Superhuman Imposter: When You Feel You Should Do It All

ACT, CFT, Imposter Syndrome, Uncategorised / dwatkins

The Superhuman Imposter In the fifth post focusing on the five types of Imposter Syndrome as identified by Dr Valerie Young, we look at the fifth type which is less about perfectionism, knowledge, or doing things alone, and instead is about doing everything, and still feeling like it’s not enough. This is the Superhuman Imposter: the

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