Understanding Self-Worth

Understanding Self-Worth is a guide for psychotherapists confounded by the struggle of working with clients who present with a pervasive pattern of denied self-worth. When self-worth is perceived as conditional or denied altogether, clients may become complicit in creating a lost-worth storythe story they tell that keeps them denying their own worth. The denial may include generational abusive and/or intrusive injunctions that go against their lived truth. Psychotherapists will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the importance of attending to the degree of trauma experienced when the clients self-worth is separated from their individual truth. Moreover, where there is worth-based trauma, the psychotherapist will learn models both for helping clients gently and honestly reestablish a worthy and true sense of self and for consciously guiding clients towards recovery of human worth as a birthright.