PERFECTIONISM, PEOPLE-PLEASING & SELF-WORTH
More Than What You Do
Therapy for perfectionism and people-pleasing offers space to explore the pressure to get everything right. If you keep saying yes, chasing approval, or tying your worth to achievement, we can work toward choices that leave room for you.
When Doing Your Best Never Feels Like Enough
You may look capable and successful while feeling anxious about mistakes, guilty about rest, or unsure what you want. We’ll explore the expectations you carry and how they affect your daily life and relationships.
In therapy, we help you:
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Understand the pressure to please others and get things right.
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Explore a sense of worth beyond productivity and approval.
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Practice saying no and making room for your needs.
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Respond to mistakes with more understanding and flexibility.
Therapy Shaped Around You
Our work is shaped around your experiences, needs, and goals.
Individual Therapy
Weekly or biweekly sessions to explore complex trauma, relationship patterns, ADHD masking, and burnout.
Group Therapy
Therapist-led groups focused on people-pleasing, emotional boundaries, and connection.
Tools for Everyday Life
Practical strategies developed together, with room to adjust as you learn what works for you.
Understand Where the Pressure Began
Perfectionism and people-pleasing can develop for many reasons. We’ll explore your experiences without assuming one explanation.
Our work may include noticing rigid expectations, understanding fears about disappointing others, and practicing boundaries. We’ll consider what helps you make choices based on your values as well as other people’s needs.
“Irene is a kind, empathetic and collaborative clinician. She works with her clients as a guide to help you through self-discovery and healing. Irene can help you build strong boundaries, coping skills and transform after trauma.”
- Kristina Lynn Padron, LP, MHC
Small Changes in Everyday Life
We can work on the moments when pressure takes over: sending an email, making a decision, asking for help, or taking a break.
Together, we’ll notice what makes those moments difficult and try manageable ways to respond differently. Your goals will guide what we focus on.
Still figuring it out?
You don’t need a clear plan to begin. A free 15-minute consultation is a chance to share what you’re looking for and ask questions about working together.
Make Room for Yourself
Your needs can have a place alongside your responsibilities. Therapy offers space to explore what that could look like in your life.
Let’s talk about what you’d like to change.