If you’re tired of being “the strong one,” this is for you.

Registration: $25

To register, please send an email to eastbaytherapistcommunity@gmail.com

Many women in healing professions move through the world with a quiet pressure to be steady, capable, and endlessly composed.
You might not think of yourself as a perfectionist—maybe it feels more like responsibility, high standards, or simply what your role requires. Still, the internal weight can be real: the self‑critique, the tension, the sense that you should be doing more.

(im)perfect is a gentle, experiential workshop designed to help you notice these patterns with compassion and create more room for your full, human self. Together, we’ll explore how perfectionism shows up in subtle ways, how “being the strong one” shapes your identity, and how to soften the rules that keep you overworking or overholding.

This two‑hour gathering offers reflection, connection, and practices that support ease, permission, and enoughness. You don’t need to identify as a perfectionist to join—just a curiosity about the parts of you that work so hard.

Come as you are. There’s nothing to perfect here.

Nes Pinar, LMFT, has a counseling degree from Cal State East Bay and has many years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults through various treatment modalities around many issues. Nes is the founder of EBTC and supervises post-master's degree associates at her private practice. In addition to more traditional therapy models, Nes incorporates neurofeedback in her work with her clients and as an adjunct service to support other therapists’ work. Nes identifies as a perfectionist-in-recovery, and helps her clients on their journey of taming their perfectionism, improving their self-compassion, and practicing radical acceptance.

To learn more about Nes and her work, please visit www.nespinar.com.