Strengthening self-worth, with a workbook
When you perform well and criticism still makes everything wobble, in 7 sessions.
In Karlsruhe and online

What it is about
Our self-worth rarely shows itself in big decisions, but in the small moments of everyday life. How you look at yourself. Whether you can set boundaries. How secure you feel when expectations are in the room.
Structured work towards a more realistic picture of yourself: away from what you believe you have to be, towards what you really want to be.
In 7 sessions with a clear method and exercises for everyday life.
This work can make sense if any of this sounds familiar:
- Criticism or rejection stays with you for a long time.
- The comparing happens by itself.
- Your own needs come after the task.
- What you achieve does not count as proof.
- The same doubts keep coming back.


The process: seven sessions
Each session has a focus of its own and builds on the one before. Between appointments the workbook accompanies you in carrying things into everyday life.
Getting to know each other
Taking stock and clarifying the goal. What is occupying you, and where do you want to get to?
Understanding
Where does your picture of yourself come from? Which patterns and experiences shape it to this day?
Realigning
From the ought-self to the wished-for self. New perspectives and concrete next steps.
Anchoring
Carrying it into everyday life: concrete, realistic, at your own pace.
The workbook
More than a hundred pages, written specifically for this programme.
- Foundations on the subject of self-worth
- Reflection questions for working on it yourself
- Exercises and impulses for everyday life
The chapters follow the sessions. Afterwards it stays with you.

The scientific basis
Self-worth cannot be built through affirmations. It takes understanding, method and translation into everyday life.
The basis is the psychological model for structured self-worth building by Friederike Chmielewski and Sven Hanning, scientifically grounded and designed for structured work, not for one-off moments of insight.
The approach distinguishes between the ought-self (who we believe we have to be) and the wished-for self (who we really want to be). It makes visible where the discrepancy comes from and how it can be reduced step by step: close to everyday life and easy to follow.
The framework
7 individual sessions over three to four months, in Karlsruhe or online. A workbook of more than 100 pages accompanies the whole process and stays with you in everyday life afterwards.
Qualification: M.Sc. Psychology · DBVC and ICF certified · Karlsruhe & online
First conversation
For a first meeting without obligation, do book the introductory phone call. We clarify whether the programme suits your concern.
First meetingOther concerns
The Self-Worth Programme is a format of its own alongside one-to-one coaching. For other concerns there is the in-depth format.
To one-to-one coachingIf a crisis is acute or psychotherapeutic treatment would be necessary, what I offer is not the right setting. In the phone call we talk about that openly and look together at which next step makes sense.
