identity & self-worth therapy in austin, tx

• Low self-esteem or a persistent inner critic

• A sense of purpose or direction that feels unclear or out of reach

• Fear of abandonment or rejection in close relationships

• Cultural identity, heritage, and the tension between worlds

• Navigating marginalized identity and internalized messages about worth

• Healing from internalized racism or prejudice

• Spiritual identity and questions about faith or meaning

• The overlap between work, achievement, and sense of self

• Feeling like you've become whoever others needed you to be

Questions about who you are and whether your life is really yours tend to surface quietly, then all at once. They can show up as a vague dissatisfaction that's hard to name, a sense that you've been living according to someone else's script, or a dawning awareness that the version of yourself you've been presenting to the world isn't quite the whole story. For some people these questions arrive during a major transition. For others they've been there for a long time, just easier to ignore when things were busy enough.

These questions rarely come from nowhere. They tend to emerge when the strategies that once told you who you were — achievement, belonging, being needed, being good — stop being enough to answer the question. Identity and self-worth concerns often have deep roots in what you absorbed early about what made you valuable, what parts of yourself were acceptable, and what you had to set aside to fit into the systems and relationships that shaped you. That includes cultural and family systems, religious or spiritual frameworks, and the particular experience of navigating a world that may not have reflected your identity back to you accurately or kindly.

In our work together, we don't try to arrive at tidy answers to questions that may not have them. We work to understand where the current sense of self came from, what it's been built on, and what it might look like to relate to yourself with more curiosity and less judgment. Not a fixed destination, but a clearer sense of what's actually yours — and what you might be ready to let go of.

I offer identity and self-worth therapy in Austin, Texas and via telehealth across the state for adults who are ready to look honestly at who they've become — and who they might want to be.