Low Self-Esteem: Counselling & Psychotherapy Services
What is Low Self-Esteem?
Low Self Esteem is what you experience when you think of yourself as 'useless' or incapable.
It is the term used to describe our self-assessment.
When our self esteem is healthy, we tend to feel good about ourselves and have a positive outlook on life.
A strong self-esteem provides us with the courage and resilience to navigate the highs and lows of life without long-term effects on our well-being.
It allows us to effectively recognise and appreciate our achievements, resulting in an overall sense of well-being.
Conversely, when our sense of self worth is low, our thoughts and feelings about ourselves become predominantly negative.
We tend to focus on our weaknesses and excessively criticise ourselves for mistakes and shortcomings.
Self Esteem is one of the core beliefs that significantly impact the way we interpret our experiences, whether positively or negatively.
What Can Cause Low Self-Esteem?
It is generally believed that our self-esteem stems from experiences in early childhood.
Our history and relationships with those around us – including our parents, friends and siblings – shape the opinion we have ourselves.
We receive a combination of positive and negative messages as we grow up, but for some people it tends to be the negative ones that stick.
Feelings of not being good enough can continue into adulthood.
How we develop our self esteem through adolescence can impact our future levels of self-worth.
Adverse childhood experiences, general life adversity or serious illness can also cause self-esteem to plummet.
Being forced into a physical or emotional position against your will can make it very hard to trust yourself or others.
It can leave you feeling out of control and in your head you may have convinced yourself you were to blame in some way.
Low Self-Esteem Symptoms
Common indicators of low esteem can include:
- Feeling hopeless or depressed
- Feeling bored with life
- Having no motivation
- Lack of assertiveness
- Being overly sensitive to criticism
- Believing there’s nothing to look forward to
- Thinking negatively about yourself
- Feeling tired a lot of the time
- Feeling like a failure
Take the Self-Esteem Test
Find out if you have the signs and symptoms linked to low self-esteem by taking our self esteem quiz here.
Psychological therapies
Counselling & Psychotherapy for Low Self-Esteem
WHO WE ARE
Meet Our Team of Therapists
Hello, Tranceform Psychology incorporates the private practices of Paul Lee BSc MSc who specialises in beliefs-based CBT, Joan Lee BSc who offers counselling, evidence-based hypnotherapy and specialist paediatric hypnotherapy for children aged 9 to 17, and Desbinder Somal BSc BACP a practice associate who specialises in relationship counselling.
Teach Yourself CBT Course for Managing Low Self-Esteem
If you're not quite ready to undertake face-to-face therapy for your esteem-related condition, then why not consider our online self-directed CBT course?
Written by expert mental health psychologist Paul Lee, it contains 10 extensive modules designed to teach you the fundamentals of clinical CBT so that you can apply them to your own specific problems, at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.
Priced at just £99, its exactly the same course that clients follow when the undertaking Paul's in-clinic CBT programme costing £795.
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