If you’ve been referred for EMDR, or stumbled across it while researching therapy options, you might be wondering what on earth it involves. The name alone – Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing – doesn’t make it immediately obvious. And some of the descriptions online can make it sound either mysterious, complicated, or both. This post […]
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A lot of people put off starting therapy not because they don’t want help, but because they’re not quite sure what they’re walking into. Will they be expected to talk about their whole life history? Will it feel clinical and cold? What if they don’t know what to say? These are entirely understandable concerns and
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You’ve worked hard to get where you are. So why does it still feel like you don’t quite belong — or that it’s only a matter of time before people find you out? If that question resonates, you’re not alone. Imposter syndrome is one of the most common things I work with as a therapist,
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There’s something particularly frustrating about imposter syndrome for the people who experience it. Most of them are intelligent, reflective, and self-aware. They can see the pattern clearly and they understand, rationally, that the evidence doesn’t support the conclusion that they’re a fraud. They’ve read the research, recognised themselves in it, and know perfectly well that
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Most people who consider therapy for imposter syndrome have already spent a long time trying to sort it out themselves. They’ve read about it, understood it intellectually, perhaps tried some of the self-help strategies – and found that while all of that helped up to a point, something remained unchanged underneath. The self-doubt kept returning.
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