CBT and EMDR for professionals

You may be a successful business, sports, medical, or legal professional at the top of your game. Or you may have just started out on your professional career. Expectations on you to deliver, both self imposed or by others can be huge. Many professionals at some point in their careers have experienced self-doubt, loneliness, imposter syndrome, depression and anxiety disorders. All the time you are having to perform, "be your best", make a difference, resulting in periods of psychological distress.

I have experienced many challenges throughout my own managerial career. Professional environments often remain focused on "success" and performance, leading to self-critical thoughts and emotions as to why you may be finding day-to-day life difficult. The way we think and respond to our thoughts and "internal critical voices" keep negative cycles going. The "mind bully" simply won't let up!

CBT allows you to identify and work through those internal critical voices to see them for what they are "just thoughts and beliefs", NOT facts. EMDR allows you to process difficult childhood memories that continue to feed self-doubt and distress.

If you would like to discuss the issues you are experiencing with a professional who has "walked the walk" in management and clinical practice for over 35 years contact me. I can help you!

Perfectionism

We all want to be successful and do well, but for some striving to be perfect often leads to an increased sense of failure, not having achieved the often challenging goals we set for our selves. Perfectionism is not about having aspirations, focus or dreaming about what might be. Perfectionism is a constant need to achieve to stave off underlying self-esteem issues and self-critical beliefs. You constantly do well but think and believe in ways that you could have done better, even though others have rated you excellent in achievement. Perfectionism often has its origin in the past, but now dominates the present. You have the house, car, relationship and career, but you sense emptiness and wanting more. Professionals often have perfectionistic drivers causing internal conflict. Using CBT or EMDR I can help you to identify those perfectionistic drivers, re-evaluate them onto what helps, what doesn't, what causes distress. I will help you to reset your perfectionistic beliefs by addressing the causes of low self-esteem so that you can move forward, still with goals but with less negative impact on you and your professional life.

Stress

Deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines. On the surface you have to "appear together", on form, but the sleepless nights, worry, stress, physical aches and pains are all taking their toll. Your relationships are struggling and you are increasingly irritable and frustrated. Your mood is depressed and you are at the end of your tether. Confidential psychological support is available to restore your potential, wellbeing and enjoyment of life. I can help you to explore your situation. Key questions to ask, are my problems due excess demands or aggravated by internalised rules by which you judge your worth? How do you relax? how do you stop or manage worry and insomnia?

Imposter syndrome

You have achieved all your life, have a good job and are respected by colleagues yet you still can't quite believe your doing what you do! Surely someone "will see me for what I am", an imposter amongst true achievers and talent. Imposter syndrome is common and may have origins in childhood or adolescence. You may have established beliefs about yourself that are harsh and inaccurate, yet you believe them, "I am not good enough" being typical. life doesn't need to be this way. Let us sit down, unpick the issue and work on re-balancing your "core" beliefs that are driving these inaccurate assumptions about yourself.

These conditions present a small insight into what you may be experiencing. The situation may be connected with your profession, personal life or internal struggles that you may have and your perceptions of self. Please don't continue to struggle. Contact me and we can discuss treatment options using CBT or EMDR