Category: CBT | Dean Watkins Therapy

Imposter Syndrome: Understanding and Changing Your Focus

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Imposter syndrome, that nagging feeling of being a fraud despite your accomplishments, can be a persistent and debilitating experience. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers a framework to understand and address this issue by examining the thoughts, behaviours, and, importantly, the focus of attention that maintain these feelings of inadequacy. Identifying the Maintaining Factors CBT helps […]

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Uncertainty & Decision-Making

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In this blog post I will look at how anxiety and the intolerance of uncertainty can impact our ability to Make decisions. How do you decide? It can be useful to look at how you go about making decisions, especially when you are not sure what to do, or there is no obvious or right

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Impostor Syndrome as an Unwanted Guest

Leave a Comment / Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, CBT, Impostor Syndrome, Therapy metaphors / dwatkins

When you externalise and personify your Impostor Syndrome, you can then look at how the two of you are getting along. So, how do you experience your Impostor Syndrome, what sort of relationship do you have with it and what it tells you? How do you respond to Impostor Syndrome when it shows up and

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