Therapy for Self-Worth
If you often feel like you’re too much and not enough at the same time — you’re not alone.
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Maybe you overthink everything you say, silence your needs to avoid conflict, or feel uncomfortable just being with yourself. You might struggle to speak up, set boundaries, take up space, or trust that you’re worthy of the good things you want. Underneath it all, there’s a constant hum of self-doubt:
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Am I doing enough? Am I lovable? What if they leave?
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This isn’t just insecurity — it’s a sign that we’ve become disconnected from our self-worth. Self-worth isn’t something we lose, but it is something we may need to remember and reconnect with. When we’re out of touch with it, it can quietly shape our relationships, our choices, our mental health, and our sense of who we are.
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The good news? Self-worth can be remembered and reclaimed. Gently, deeply, and at a pace that honors your nervous system, your body, and your mind.
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At Rooted Wellness Counseling, I specialize in helping adults in Colorado and Arizona reconnect with their inner voice, heal old patterns, and cultivate a more grounded and compassionate relationship with themselves. Drawing on my expertise in nervous system regulation, somatic parts work, and cognitive approaches, I guide clients to strengthen self-trust, reclaim their personal power, and finally feel at home in their own skin. If you’re ready to stop abandoning yourself and start coming home — I’m honored to support you.
What is Self-Worth?
Self-worth is your deep, internal sense of being enough — just as you are.
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It’s not about perfection, performance, or constant self-improvement. It’s about feeling safe and grounded in yourself, knowing at your core that you’re inherently valuable and worthy of love, rest, care, and belonging.
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Sometimes people worry that building self-worth might make them selfish or overly confident, but the truth is, the more connected you are to your own worth, the more capacity you have to show up in life with clarity, generosity, and presence. On the flip side, when we’re disconnected from our self-worth, the nervous system stays on alert: self-doubt swirls, interactions feel overwhelming, and we bend ourselves to fit what others expect.
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There’s real freedom in shifting those patterns, and healing your relationship with yourself is one of the most powerful ways to calm your nervous system and start coming home to who you truly are.
What do we need to heal our relationship with ourselves?
While self-esteem often gets the spotlight when we talk about self-worth, there’s actually much more happening beneath the surface. Building a strong, grounded sense of self involves tending to several interconnected layers — from how we relate to our thoughts and emotions, to how we set boundaries, to how we show up in relationships and navigate life’s challenges.
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Healing your relationship with yourself isn’t about quick fixes or surface-level positivity. It’s about cultivating self-awareness, self-trust, self-acceptance, and self-love... a layered approach that helps you feel safe in your own skin, respond to life with clarity, and move forward with compassion for yourself every step of the way.
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How I can help:
Whether you've experienced unhealthy family dynamics, trauma, negative past relationships, or have struggled with self-awareness, self-trust, self-acceptance, or self-love, know this: you are not stuck feeling this way forever. While it’s common to focus on how we relate to others, healing your relationship with yourself is truly the most important work — and I’d be honored to guide you on that journey.
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Here are three key approaches I use to help clients rebuild their self-worth:
Somatic & Mind-Body Approaches
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Somatic approaches recognize that unresolved feelings, trauma, and fears are held in the body, and including the body in healing is essential.​
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​Somatic Parts Work creates space to acknowledge the parts of ourselves that feel the need to be perfect, hide pain, stay in control, or numb/distract from difficult emotions.
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​Polyvagal-informed work supports the nervous system in experiencing safety from the inside out. As the body learns it can move through stress and return to regulation, we gain access to self-trust and self-worth—because feeling worthy requires feeling safe enough to be fully ourselves.
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Through this work, we cultivate an embodied sense of Self that can compassionately hold fears, vulnerabilities, and wholeness, while helping the nervous system learn to feel safe, grounded, and regulated.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps identify thought patterns that have become ingrained over time through experiences, interactions, and self-talk.
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It reveals how these patterns influence your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world around you. By combining CBT with nervous system awareness, we can gently interrupt unhelpful thoughts while calming protective patterns in the body.
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Using CBT, we target thinking that fuels a negative outlook, such as assuming the worst, self-blame, treating thoughts as facts, or minimizing accomplishments. Because repeated thoughts create pathways in the brain, chronic self-doubt can feel automatic — CBT is considered the “gold standard” for helping rewire these patterns and rebuild a healthier internal dialogue.
Self-Compassion
Self-compassion helps regulate the nervous system by releasing oxytocin and activating the body’s safety and soothing response — the opposite of self-criticism, which can trigger fight, flight, or freeze reactions.
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Self-compassion acknowledges that being human is inherently challenging and involves suffering. It teaches us to pause, notice automatic self-judgment, and respond with kindness instead.
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Practicing self-compassion can reduce anxiety and depression while increasing resilience to stress and strengthening your capacity to respond to life with clarity and groundedness.
Together, we honor your past experiences and the ways they’ve shaped your self-image. At Rooted Wellness Counseling, I’m committed to helping adults in Colorado and Arizona struggling with self-worth reconnect with themselves, cultivate self-love, and develop a healthier, more embodied relationship with who they are. Let’s create space for your healing and growth.