For a perfectionist, the thought of failure is terrifying. You live life with a nagging feeling of inadequacy and the belief that you are never doing enough despite all that you have achieved. As a result, you struggle to celebrate your successes perhaps because you have already begun working towards your next accomplishment. You can be critical and judgmental of yourself and sometimes others.

Therapy can help you to feel good enough. You can shed the belief that you need to be perfect to feel good about who you are and where you are in life. You can slow down and only focus on the things that you truly want to do.

You tend to hold yourself back and make yourself small when you feel worthless or like something is fundamentally wrong with who you are. This can manifest in all aspects of your life. At work you might not trust yourself enough to share your ideas with colleagues or use self-deprecating humor to make negative comments about yourself. Maybe you look in the mirror and feel disgusted and ashamed about the way that you look. You don’t feel like you deserve to experience joy and hold yourself back from trying new experiences and meeting new people. This leaves you struggling to feel hopeful about the future and the possibility that you could feel differently about yourself.

Therapy can help you to quiet your inner critic and feel good about who you are. You can start putting yourself out there at work and in relationships. You can allow yourself to experience the magic and joy that life has to offer.

You want love but can’t seem to find it. Perhaps you were hurt or betrayed by someone in the past and can’t seem to open up to someone new. Maybe you have been choosing partners who, in hindsight, couldn’t give you what you need and deserve. You have found yourself in relationships that have not felt fully satisfying, or in which you could not be fully yourself. You feel left behind by your peers as they are moving forward in their committed relationships.

Therapy can help you clarify what you want and what might have been holding you back. You can understand your previous patterns and try out new ways of being in relationships. You can feel like you deserve to have love in your life and show up as your authentic self in relationships.

You hate conflict and tend to avoid it at all costs. You typically blame yourself for everything that happens in your relationships and feel responsible to make others feel good. “No” is not a common word in your vocabulary. You find yourself in relationships where you are the one who gives while the other takes. As a result, you tend to feel lonely and unsatisfied in your relationships.

Therapy can help you find your voice and stay true to who you are. You can learn to set boundaries and limits without feeling guilty or responsible. You can express your anger towards others and feel safe to have constructive conflict.

Anxiety can take over your life. It is often very uncomfortable and hard to ignore. You experience a constant state of feeling keyed up, restless, and out of control. As a result, you are exhausted from worrying so much yet can’t relax or sit still. You might feel the need to constantly distract yourself and struggle to sit still with your own thoughts.

Therapy can help you feel calmer, grounded, and in better control of your worries and your world.

Depression can feel like some part of you is lost or damaged. It can leave you feeling sad, numb, and without hope. Depression also colors how you view the world around you. It is seemingly impossible to feel motivated when your world feels bleak and meaningless.

Therapy can help you cultivate meaning and reconnect to a sense of purpose. You can find pleasure in the things you once enjoyed doing. You can acknowledge and accept the vulnerable aspects of yourself without losing sight of your strengths and the aspects you like about yourself.

After a loss the world may feel depleted. It feels like a piece of you is missing. Grief can hit you in waves, and it can manifest in surprising ways. It rarely follows a linear path. Grief is not limited to losing a loved one, maybe you feel the loss in the form of a job loss, a break up, or another major life change.

You don’t have to deal with your grief alone. Therapy can help you process your loss and help you feel whole again. Nothing will replace what you have lost, but you can find a way to move forward while carrying a piece of what has been lost with you.

Trauma can color how you see yourself and how you navigate the world. You have learned to live life on high alert, always ready for the other shoe to drop. It can be exhausting to live this way and it can hold you back from the things you want.

Therapy can help you put words to your experiences and help you understand them in new ways. You can make sense of the methods you developed to protect yourself and let go of what no longer serves you. You can loosen the grip that your past has on you. Therapy can allow you to live life more freely and fully.