Therapy for Perfectionism
Breaking down the armor that once served you well.
High Standards Are One Thing. Feeling Like
You’re Never Enough Is Another.
Perfectionism can look impressive from the outside. You follow through, you do things well, you anticipate needs before they happen. You’ve earned the reputation of being reliable, capable, and “put together.”
But what most people don’t see is the internal experience that comes with it:
The constant pressure to do more or do better.
The mental replay of everything you could have handled differently.
The confusion of success never feeling as satisfying as you thought it would.
The fear that one mistake could somehow undo your worth.
Perfectionism doesn’t actually make life feel better or safer. It just makes you smaller, tired, and stuck
chasing a finish line that keeps moving.
What Will We Do?
In therapy, we look at perfectionism for what it really is — a coping strategy that once made sense, even if it’s costing you peace now.
Together, we work on:
Understanding where the pressure and self-criticism came from.
Learning how to separate your identity from your output.
Practicing being proud without needing things to be perfect.
Making decisions without mentally rehearsing every possible outcome.
Letting “done” be enough sometimes, even when your brain wants to edit forever.
We use approaches like CBT, ACT, and self-compassion-based work to help you shift from:
“I’ll feel okay when I get it right…”
to
“I’m allowed to feel okay even while I’m figuring it out.”
Ambition, growth, and high standards aren’t the problem.
The problem is feeling like you have to earn your right to exhale.
The goal isn’t lowering your standards — it’s freeing you from being ruled by them.
So you can show up fully in your life without always feeling like you’re falling short of it.
Let’s Take Action - Together
If you’re tired of performing your life instead of living it, you deserve support that actually helps things shift — not just more insight into why it’s hard.
Schedule a free 20-minute consultation
A real conversation. Real strategies. A real chance to interrupt the pattern instead of repeating it.
You don’t need to have it all figured out to start.
You just need to be ready for something different.
