We Specialise in Failure Schema Therapy in Elsternwick

Your Psychologist Elsternwick has helped countless people overcome failure schema through therapy

When left untreated, failure schema (like many schemas) often leads to addictive behaviour, as mind-numbing substances help us suppress these feelings of inadequacy, while other substances can temporarily boost our confidence and self-esteem.

If you are living with a voice in your head that relentlessly tells you that you’re not good enough, Your Psychologist is here to help. Our Elsternwick clinic frequently helps people with failure schema through in-depth therapy that resolves the issue at its core.

​There are numerous childhood situations that can lead to failure schema, such as having parents or people in our lives who ridiculed, mocked, devalued or criticised our efforts. This constant bullying (whether intentional or not) causes us to internalise these messages deep in our subconscious, where they run like a background track to our lives. 



Do you have failure schema?

Some clear symptoms of failure schema include:

• Feeling inadequate or inferior when comparing yourself to others
• Feeling stupid or incapable of achieving what others can achieve
• Lack of self-confidence and a tendency to procrastinate when something needs doing
• Feeling ashamed of where you are in your life right now
• A sense of feeling like an imposter at your place of work; like you don’t deserve to be there

Many symptoms of failure schema overlap with other unhealthy headspaces, such as emotional deprivation schema, subjugation schema, unrelenting standards schema and vulnerability schema.



Contact us to schedule an appointment

At Your Psychologist, we will help you overcome this belief that you are a failure, and change your mind-set in regards to career, relationships, finances and your life in general. To schedule an appointment, contact us today.