Silence Your Inner Critic with Online CBT

Self-doubt can be a quiet but powerful voice in our minds. There in the background all the time, constantly questioning your self worth, skills, ability or how you are seen by others. Predicting how badly things will go or second guessing decisions once you've made them, the impact can feel relentless, suffocating and so restrictive.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) could offers clear, practical, usable evidence-based strategies to help you understand where self-doubt comes from and how to reduce it's impact on your life.

What Causes Self-Doubt?

Self-doubt could result from negaitive early life experiences, bullying, harrasment, mistakes in the past or from a critical figure. Over time, these experiences build and shape our core beliefs. These are strong deeply held assumptions and beliefs about ourself, others, the world and the future and can sound like “I’m not good enough” or “I always get things wrong.” These beliefs can influence how you interpret situations in the present, making even small challenges feel like proof of inadequacy or failure.

CBT could help to bring these beliefs to light, recognise the impact and give you the time, space and tools to examine and challenge them, in a safe space.

How CBT Tackles Self-Doubt

CBT uses evidenced based techniques to build understanding of the impact of core beliefs and the connections between our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours.

Here’s how it can help with self-doubt:

1. Identifying Unhelpful Thought Patterns:

Many people with self-doubt experience automatic thoughts like:

• “I’m going to fail.”

• “They’re just being nice, I don’t really deserve this.”

• “I should be better than this.”

  
  

CBT could support you to notice these patterns and question their accuracy, lessening the impact on you.

2. Challenging Fixed and Restrictive Beliefs

Online CBT with Rebecca could help you to explore the supporting evidence for and against your negative self-beliefs. Are they facts, or assumptions? Are they always true? are they based on fear or past experience, is this experience relevant now?

3. Building Confidence Through Experience

CBT could include behavioural strategies to support you to test out your self doubts and try out new strategies and ways of thinking. We could quieten that self doubt and build self-confidence through consistent actions towards small meaningful achievable goals.

Real Results from CBT

Clients who work through self-doubt with CBT often report feeling:

• More confident in making decisions

• Less afraid of failure

• Less anxious overall

• A better sense of satisfaction from life

• Better able to handle criticism

• Kinder to themselves during difficult moments

  
  

And perhaps most importantly, they begin to trust their own voice again. In their own words and living more consitently alligned to their values.

Ready to Start Overcoming Self-Doubt?

If self-doubt is holding you back, online CBT with Rebecca could help you move forward with more clarity, self-compassion, and confidence. At Rebecca Cox CBT, I offer personalised evidenced based therapy to help you understand the roots of your self-doubt and begin changing the way you think and feel about yourself.

📍 Based in the UK | 💻 Online sessions available

Take the first step today? Get in touch to book an initial consultation or find out more about how CBT could work for you.