Hyper-Independence: Exploring Self-Reliance as a Trauma Response

About the event

If asking for help feels like failure, if “I’ve got it” is your default even when you’re running on empty, this session is for you.

In this masterclass, psychologist and author Dr. Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell invites you to unpack the roots of hyper-independence: where it comes from, what it’s trying to protect, and how it can quietly disconnect us from the support we need.

You will explore:

• How hyper-independence can form as a response to grief, trauma, or unmet emotional needs.
• The hidden cost of always “holding it all together”.
• How to begin softening the edges of over-self-reliance, without losing your strength.
• Practical ways to create safety in asking for support.

This is not about becoming dependent, it’s about allowing interdependence. It’s about remembering that strength isn’t just in carrying everything alone, but in letting yourself be held, too.

Because you were never meant to do it all by yourself.

About Your Facilitator

Dr. Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell is the founder of The Grief Clinic, author of The Loss Prescription: A Practical Roadmap to Grief Recovery and a UK Chartered Counselling Psychologist with more than two decades of clinical experience. She runs her own private clinic and works with hundreds of clients each year to help them embrace life again in the face of grief, loss and mental health distress.