I'm Not Qualified Enough!

I still remember those early days as a holistic therapist — the excitement, the nerves, and the quiet fear that I wasn’t enough.

I told myself I needed more certificates, more courses, more proof that I was allowed to do this work. So I kept signing up for everything I could find… workshops, seminars, training after training. On the outside, it looked like dedication. On the inside, it was fear. A fear that someone would notice I wasn’t qualified enough. A fear that clients knew more about me than I knew about myself. A fear that I was somehow pretending.

What I didn’t realise then — what I couldn’t yet see — was that while I was chasing qualification after qualification…I was already learning what no classroom could ever teach me.

Every time I sat with a client…every tear, every breakthrough, every shift in energy, every moment of trust —I was growing. I was becoming. I was learning the work by doing the work.

But imposter syndrome has a way of making us blind to our own progress. It makes us forget that showing up is a form of mastery. That presence is a skill. That experience is a qualification — one you can’t frame on a wall but can feel in your bones.

Now, when I look back, I feel tenderness for that earlier version of me… the one who thought she had to earn her worth over and over again. If only she knew that the wisdom she was searching for was already forming in her hands, her heart, and her everyday interactions.

Today, I trust the work. I trust myself. And I honour every step that brought me here — even the ones fueled by fear. Because they taught me something powerful:

You don’t become a healer through certificates. You become a healer the moment you dare to show up for someone —and realise you already know what to do.

I used to think I wasn’t “qualified enough” to be a holistic therapist. So I kept signing up for more courses, workshops, seminars — chasing confidence like it was hiding in the next certificate. But I completely overlooked the most important qualification of all: the experience I was gaining every time I sat with a client.

That was imposter syndrome talking — making me forget that I was learning through real conversations, real breakthroughs, real moments of connection.

Now I know: You don’t become a healer through endless training. You become a healer through presence, practice, and trust — especially in yourself.

Experience is a qualification. And sometimes, it’s the most important one.