Mental health and well-being

Hi, I'm Dr Gisele Fernandes and I'm a clinical psychologist. I specialise in offering individual or group therapy to professionals who struggle with low self esteem and confidence problems and as a result self sabotage or overachieve. The clients I work with are professionals from different backgrounds such as managers, consultants, business owners, accountants, IT professionals, lawyers, doctors, to name but a few. What the people I work with have in common is that they don't like themselves very much and they are not self-compassionate. They also tend to be self-critical, suffer from imposter syndrome, compare themselves negatively in relation to others. For some people there's also perfectionism as well as mood difficulties such as anxiety, low mood and/or depression. I work collaboratively with my clients to develop a thorough understanding of their current difficulties. This sometimes involves understanding how their experiences growing up have affected their sense of self and link with the self esteem and/or confidence issues they have now. As part of therapy we also work with strategies to help improve how people feel about themselves. The process of therapy is inevitably difficult but clients feel rewarded at the end of it as they understand and accept themselves better together with feeling much better about themselves and in their mood. This inevitably leads to less avoidance behaviours and more self-care. I offer online individual and group therapy. I also offer workshops on understanding and improving from low self esteem and confidence problems. My website is www.psychologywithgisele.com where you can find out more and contact me.