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Perfectionism Therapy London

What Is Perfectionism?

Perfectionism is a pattern of setting excessively high standards combined with harsh self-criticism when those standards are not met. Whilst often mistaken for a positive trait, clinical perfectionism is associated with anxiety, depression, burnout, and procrastination.

Our Practitioners Who Work with Perfectionism

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Olena

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Indu Dua London Trusted Therapy: Professional relational and trauma-informed Counsellor providing expert mental health and trauma support.

Indu

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Tina Foley London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist specializing in EMDR and professional mental health care.

Tina

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Ardavan Nikaeen London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Family, and Young People Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Ardavan

Individual Family and Young People Psychotherapist

Karima El Haddad London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Karima

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Rebecca Myers London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist providing professional care for mental wellbeing.

Rebecca

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Nikki Holmes London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health support.

Nikki

Individual Couples Family Psychotherapist

Dima Ghazi London Trusted Therapy: Professional Hypnotherapist and Life Coach providing expert mental health and personal growth support.

Dima

Hypnotherapist Life Coach

Emma Sibel Kacmaz London Trusted Therapy: Professional Mentoring and Executive Coach offering expert leadership and growth support.

Emma

Mentoring and Executive Coach

Chris Tanner London Trusted Therapy: Expert Group and Organisational Executive Coach providing professional leadership support.

Chris

Group and Organisational Executive Coach

Sabine Tendas London Trusted Therapy | Counselling Psychologist

Sabine

Counselling Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

CBT Therapist London | Shuja Hoda

Shuja

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Clinical Psychologist London for Children | Dr Sagari Sarkar

Sagari

Clinical Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Dr Saz Guscott HCPC Practitioner Psychologist Neurodiversity Specialist CBT ACT CFT IFS ADHD Autism Support Harley Street and Online

Saz

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam Ebrahim Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam

Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

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Haneyeh

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist EMDR

Tatiana Kazantseva Psychotherapist London Trusted Therapy Harley Street

Tatiana

Psychotherapist

Dr Emma Corcoran | Clinical Psychologist and Therapist London A woman with straight brown hair and fair skin is smiling at the camera. She is wearing a brown and white patterned jumper and is posed in front of a plain white background.

Emma

Clinical Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist

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How We Treat Perfectionism

We draw on CBT, compassion-focused therapy, schema therapy, and ACT to help you understand the origins of your perfectionist patterns and develop a healthier, more sustainable relationship with achievement and self-worth.

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Why Choose London Trusted Therapy for Perfectionism?

Perfectionism is widely celebrated — until it quietly destroys your wellbeing, your relationships, and your capacity to enjoy what you have worked so hard to achieve. At London Trusted Therapy, we understand the psychology of perfectionism with real clinical depth, and we work with you to dismantle it without asking you to abandon your standards or your ambition.

A clinically led, multidisciplinary team

Every practitioner at London Trusted Therapy holds substantial postgraduate training and professional accreditation, with a minimum of five years of clinical experience and an average of fifteen to twenty years across the team. Our practitioners include chartered and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors accredited with the BACP, UKCP, COSRT and HCPC- all working under the clinical direction of Dr Olena Edwards-Skadowska, BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, MBPsS, FMBPsS, and actively practising clinician.

Dr Edwards-Skadowska is the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award for Services to Mental Health, presented at the Health 2.0 Global Conference 2024 — a recognition that reflects the values of excellence, integrity, and genuine clinical commitment that run through everything London Trusted Therapy does.

At London Trusted Therapy, you will be seen by a practitioner who is an expert in perfectionism and its psychological impact — someone who brings deep, focused expertise to your presentation, rather than whoever is next available.

What Our Clients Say About Us

4.86 rating based on Doctify, Google and Trustpilot reviews

T Y

  • 2025-01-23
Chris was brilliant. I came in dealing with perfectionism that was exhausting and self-defeating. After everything, I can look back at where I started and barely recognise it — something I wasn't sure was possible.

B E

  • 2026-03-24
Emma helped me work through perfectionism that was exhausting and self-defeating, taking a trauma-informed approach, which gave a completely different way to approach things — I'm genuinely grateful for that.

O Z

  • 2026-05-11
The moment I sat down with Dima to talk about perfectionism that was exhausting and self-defeating, I knew it was different, through hypnotherapy, which made a real difference within weeks. If I'm being truthful, I've learned to trust the process, even on the harder days, and it's lasted.
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The Breadth to Meet Your Full Picture

Clinical perfectionism rarely exists in isolation. Where it connects with anxiety, depression, burnout, or neurodevelopmental factors such as ADHD, our multidisciplinary structure allows for internal cross-referral across the team — including psychiatric review, EMDR, or neurodiversity-affirming therapy — without you needing to start the process again elsewhere.

A holistic, integrative approach

London Trusted Therapy is a holistic practice. We do not begin with a protocol and fit you to it — we begin with you.

For perfectionism, this means drawing on schema therapy and psychodynamic approaches to understand the deeper origins of your perfectionist patterns — the early experiences and relational dynamics that taught you that your worth was conditional on performance. Compassion-focused therapy addresses the harsh inner critic at the heart of perfectionism. Mindfulness-based approaches develop a more accepting, present-moment relationship with imperfection. ACT and CBT are integrated where values clarification and thought restructuring are helpful tools. The aim is not to lower your standards — it is to free you from the suffering they cause.

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Harley Street

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Chancery Lane

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