Specialty · Self-Worth & Self-Esteem

The relationship you have with yourself.

Is the one all your other relationships are built on.

What happened to you

Relational injuries you didn't know to name — small, chronic, often invisible to the adults around you.

Words said in anger that landed as identity statements about who you are at your core.

Conditional love, where being loved required performing a version of yourself that wasn't quite you.

Stories you absorbed about your worth — from family, culture, religion, school — before you had the language to push back.

How it shows up now

You can't tell, in any given moment, whether the inner voice is yours.

You take in disagreement as evidence of being fundamentally wrong.

You preempt rejection by becoming what you think will keep you safe.

You doubt your perception of nearly every interaction, even the ones that went well.

"We don't just repair self-worth. We trace its origins, name what fractured it, and rebuild from material that's actually yours."

What we work on

Identifying the inner critic.

Hearing the voice clearly enough to know it's not you — and to stop confusing its volume with truth.

Tracing the voices you've internalized.

Whose tone is that, actually? Whose standard? Whose disappointment have you been carrying as your own?

Reclaiming your own opinion of yourself.

Building the muscle of self-perception that isn't filtered through anyone else's gaze.

Building self-trust.

Keeping small promises to yourself until the body starts believing that you're someone who shows up.

Existing as you, in your own life.

Not performing a version. Not preempting criticism. Just being the actual person, in the actual day.

Ornate wall mirror beside a terracotta vase and dried grasses

$175 per 50-min session·Sliding scale available·Bilingual EN/ES

Questions

Common questions.

Is low self-worth the same as depression?

Related, but distinct. Low self-worth is a relational pattern with yourself — the way you talk to, perceive, and treat the person you are. Depression is a clinical condition that can co-occur. Often the self-worth work softens the depression, but each gets its own attention.

Why does this keep coming back even when I 'know better'?

Because self-worth lives at a layer deeper than cognition. The intellectual understanding ('I'm enough') and the felt sense ('I'm not') live in different parts of the system. Self-worth therapy is about repairing the felt sense, slowly, through experience — not argument.

Can this work happen without revisiting childhood?

It can, but most self-worth wounds were planted early, so origins usually surface. We don't dwell there — we visit when it's useful, then come back to building something new.

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