Self-worth therapy in Los Angeles using Attachment-Focused EMDR. For the inner critic that won’t argue away. For the “not enough” feeling that doesn’t bend to evidence. For the foundational work talk therapy alone often can’t reach.
For Core Belief Repair
Not Affirmational
Specialisation
Many people struggling with self-worth have already tried therapy, affirmations, or achievement, yet the feeling of “not enough” still remains. That’s because self-worth is often shaped by early relational experiences stored deep in the nervous system — not just in conscious thoughts.
Attachment-Focused EMDR works at this deeper level by targeting the emotional and somatic patterns beneath the belief, helping shift the core assumption rather than simply changing self-talk.
Self-worth work with AF-EMDR is foundational, not quick. Here’s an honest fit picture.
Self-worth therapy is foundational work on the underlying belief you hold about your own value — not the surface self-talk, but the structural assumption that runs underneath. The version that doesn’t argue away no matter how many achievements or affirmations you stack on top. In my practice, self-worth therapy uses primarily Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) to address where the belief actually lives.
Yes — but not usually through insight alone. If insight were enough, most people who can intellectually identify their negative self-beliefs would already be free of them. AF-EMDR addresses the belief at the level it was formed — usually pre-verbal, somatic, relational — which is why it tends to reach what other approaches can’t.
CBT and affirmations work at the cognitive level — restructuring thoughts, repeating new beliefs. For many people that’s helpful. For others — particularly those with deep developmental self-worth wounds — the cognitive layer is the surface, and the core belief sits underneath it. AF-EMDR reaches the underlying material. Many clients describe it as “my body finally believing what my mind has been trying to tell it for years.”
My office sits on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood minutes from Santa Monica, West LA, and Beverly Hills. For clients across California, telehealth makes the same work possible from home.
Primary office · 90049
20 min · Telehealth
20 min · In-person
20 min · Telehealth
20 min · Telehealth
20 min · Telehealth
No commitment, no paperwork. A chance to talk through what you’re carrying and see whether EMDR and whether I might be the right fit.