COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST

ESMARILDA
DANKAERT

If you plan on being anything less than what you were truly meant to be, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Your meaningful life awaits.

Welcome, I’m glad you are here!

I’m Esmarilda Dankaert, Counselling Psychologist, Motivational Futurist and Imperfection Activist, and I help people, like you, defeat the personal challenges that are preventing you from living your best life, whether this presents as depression, anxiety, burnout, career dissatisfaction, addictive behaviours, interpersonal difficulties, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, eating disorder, or self-harm. I believe we all do the best we can with what we have, even if it is not always for our betterment. As such, I help people to develop the self-insight and tools they need to heal themselves and get out of their own way. I just need an unyielding willingness to try! Your most meaningful life is waiting – why wait?

Psychological Services

Adult
Psychotherapy

I offer in-person or online psychotherapy to adults. Click below to read more on my areas of specialty.

Business
Consulting

I consult with businesses on how to improve their workforce and in turn, improve the business using psychological research, interventions, and insights.

Adolescent
Psychotherapy

I offer in-person or online psychotherapy to adolescents. Click below to read more on my areas of speciality.

I’m-perfect
Program

As an academic and creative, I develop content to educate the world at large in an easy-to-understand and informative way.

Personal
Development

I help people ignite their full potential by helping them remove their own psychological barriers.

Talks and
Workshops

In need of an educational talk or workshop?

Blog

Personal Development

Why Intellect Alone Won’t Get You Success

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein For most of us, we were raised with the

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert December 16, 2024

Mental Health

The Lonely Pursuit of Perfection

“Real connection thrives in the honesty of being, not in the perfection of pretending.” — Harrison Vale Have you ever scrolled through social media and felt

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert December 9, 2024

Psychology

Mental Disorders: Are They Really Disorders?

This is, without a doubt, the most controversial article I have written to date. Yet, it is a controversy rooted in necessity—a challenge to the way we

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert November 23, 2024

Self Mastery

Self-Abandonment: Why We Get Lost

“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert September 10, 2024

Self Discovery

When Your Symptoms Are NOT Mental, But Existential

“The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru When people seek

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert September 10, 2024

Human Connection

Feeling Unrooted: How Commitment Gives Life Meaning

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose and commit myself to, what is best for me. ― Paulo Coelho There is

Dr Esmarilda Dankaert August 27, 2024

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