Impostor syndrome is common among high achievers, many of whom discount their successes. As a result, they do not feel confident or deserving inside of themselves even though they are objectively successful and perceived as such by other people. Psychological research done in the early 1980s estimated that two out of five successful people consider themselves impostors and other studies have found that 70 percent of all people feel like impostors at one time or another.

Melissa Gould, LPCC, returned from maternity leave on May 6th. Melissa is seeing clients on Wednesdays and Saturdays and will be adding a third day soon. In reflecting on motherhood, Melissa notes that while "many parts of day-to-day parenting are no fun...there's so much joy in it all...Life feels a bit richer these days!" Welcome back Melissa!

On Sunday, May 17, the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center of Silicon Valley employees, family and friends spent the day in a special 20,000 acre nature retreat at the Santa Lucia Preserve. As a team, we enjoyed breakfast in the Hacienda, a hike on the Williams Canyon trail, a picnic by Moore's Lake and horseback riding on Garzas trail. We all agreed the best part of the retreat was getting to know each other and our family and friends in an informal, fun environment.

The Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center * Silicon Valley / Sacramento Valley is proud to announce that we have joined the National Social Anxiety Center, a prestigious alliance of CBT Centers around the country with certified cognitive therapists specializing in evidence-based therapy for social anxiety. Social anxiety (which includes performance anxiety, selective mutism, assertiveness, many types of work anxiety, fear of negative evaluation and judgment and other anxiety-related disorders) is the third most common anxiety disorder in the United States.

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