Integrated CBT for Impostor Syndrome
Knowing you suffer from Impostor Syndrome (IS) is one thing, deciding whether you want to change it, let alone knowing how to do it is more challenging. The irony is that psychologists for decades have focused on undertsanding and raising awareness of IS but have done little to provide support and help in changing it-despite the existance of powerful strategies already proven to successfully address its underlying mechanisms.
This 12 weekly one hour sessions 1:1 programme is for those that want to change their IS and live a less anxious, guilty and more successful and confident life
Pre-Programme: Online questionniare based assessment & individualised programme
Session 1: Understanding IS and why you suffer from it
Session 2: Understanding the different factors that maintain your IS
Session 3: Do you really want to change? Discovering and maintaining your motivation to overcoming IS
Session 4:Tackling Perfectionism and Workaholism
Session 4: Getting to Grips with Procrastination
Session 5: Discovering how you don't need a mask- or how to stop being afraid of being found out
Session 6: Dismissing negative beliefs about positive feedback
Session 7: Ovecoming self sabotage, limited aspirations and other safety behaviours
Session 8: How to use cognitive defusion to detach from negative beliefs
Session 9: Putting things into action (1)
Session 10: Putting things into action (2)
Session 11: How to keep going. Ensuring that occasional lapses arent a RE-lapse
Session 12: Future plans and implementation
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” Eleanor Roosevelt
“In any given moment, we have two options: To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
Abraham Maslow
"Impostor Syndrome starts with a combination of background, gender and job role but is maintained by procrastination, over-preparation and discounting success. This doesnt mean its easy to overcome but we already know a lot about how to tackle these from other fields "
Paul Grantham
Paul's help and guidance both in training and supervision has been invaluable. The training's been the best in my career and I don't say that lightly
S.A. Counsellor
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I can't emphasise enough how nicely created the courses are by Prof Grantham. I dont like to miss any of his words so I study his recordings again and again to catch all the essence. At times Ive been mesmerised by the breadth of his knowledge
S.A. Counsellor
Dr Shaniker Anthony Medical Doctor & Health Psychologist
What can I say. I love your type of therapy. Your idea that you can't move forward if you hold onto your past has been a real eye opener and I can already see that strategy you taught me working already. You won't believe this but Im already less preoccupied with that trauma with my father. Thank you.
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Email from client May 2024