Guest Leslie Becker-Phelps, a trusted expert on relationship issues, shares tips on helping clients develop self-worth. She discusses building trust in therapy to challenge negative self-perceptions.
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Overcompensation and Self-Worth
Clients with low self-worth often overcompensate through work or excessive kindness.
These behaviors mask their underlying feelings of worthlessness, hindering therapeutic progress.
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Challenging Negative Perceptions
Use examples, like the inherent value of infants, to challenge clients' negative self-perceptions.
Repeatedly create opportunities for connection in therapy to reinforce their sense of worth.
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Focus on Inherent Worth
Help clients recognize their inherent worth by focusing on who they are, not their accomplishments.
Building a warm, trusting therapeutic relationship is key for clients struggling with self-worth.
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Leslie Becker-Phelps, PhD, author of The Insecure in Love Workbook, shares how to help your clients develop a sense of self-worth. Leslie is an internationally published author, speaker, and psychologist. She is a trusted expert on relationship issues,and author of Insecure in Love and Bouncing Back from Rejection. She writes a blog called Making Change for www.psychologytoday.com. In addition, she has created a library of short videos on her YouTube channel to help viewers learn how to feel better about themselves and their lives.
Becker-Phelps has a private practice in Basking Ridge, NJ; and is on the medical staff of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, where she previously served as clinical director of women’s psychological services, and chief of psychology in the department of psychiatry. She lives with her husband and two sons in Basking Ridge, NJ. Find out more about her at www.drbecker-phelps.com.
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