Meet Gay lee schumann, ma, lpc
Low self-esteem can have disastrous effects on work, relationships and personal goals.
If we are unable to value ourselves or to define what is important to us, setting and maintaining healthy boundaries with others, meeting personal goals or advancing in our careers can be difficult.
I help clients gain a sense of value-determine what is important to them-both personally and in relationships.
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Once you learn what you value, helping others learn how to treat you can be easier.
We gain our sense of value from our primary caregivers, from other relationships, and from life experiences. Over time, negative messages from others and negative life experiences can result in us underestimating our own value. This, in turn, results in us teaching others not to value us as highly as they should, although this is not our intention. Low self-worth makes setting and maintaining boundaries difficult. Assertiveness can feel impossible. Low self-worth can also affect our careers as it can affect our performance in job interviews, in job performance and in how we present ourselves to others.
I help clients gain (or re-gain) a sense of self-worth by helping them to determine what makes them valuable outside of others’ opinions, life circumstances, or their successes or failures. Once their sense of value is present, I then give them skills and strategies so that they can teach others what is important to them and how they want to be treated. When clients are able to set and maintain boundaries with others, it can create a new dynamic in which they feel more valued by others, reinforcing the new sense of value that they have found in themselves.