Quick Tips for Therapists: Helping Your Clients Develop a Sense of Self-Worth
Jul 11, 2024
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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.
Therapy effectiveness depends on clients challenging negative self-perceptions.
Creating a safe and valued space for self-exploration helps clients shift perspectives.
Deep dives
Developing Self-Worth in Clients
Clients dealing with feelings of worthlessness often engage in behaviors to mask their low self-esteem. Therapy can be ineffective if clients merely go through the motions to avoid rejection. Building a warm and trusting relationship with the therapist is crucial for progress. Through repeated moments of connection, clients can start to challenge their negative self-perceptions and recognize their inherent value beyond mere actions.
Encouraging Clients to Explore Self-Worth
Therapists can help clients shift their perspectives on self-worth by creating a safe and valued space for exploration. By introducing examples that challenge rigid self-concepts, clients can begin to doubt their negative beliefs. Repeated experiences that foster moments of self-discovery can lead clients to realize their worth, ultimately facilitating growth and positive change in therapy sessions.
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Exploring the Development of Self-Worth in Therapy
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.