EPIJENNETICS COUNSELING & CONSULTING

Relationships

Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

November 9, 2020

This post explores narcissism and caregiving and how at the core of both is a difficulty with vulnerability and either creating boundaries with caregiving and respecting boundaries with narcissism. Post explores the giving-taking spectrum and how to go about growth from either end of the spectrum.
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Anxiety, Depression, Psychological Concepts, Relationships, Schema Concepts

The Entitlement Spectrum: The Importance of Knowing Where You Fall

April 22, 2024

This post explores the Entitlement spectrum, exploring narcissistic characteristics (Entitlement schema) and Self-Sacrificing characteristics (Self-Sacrifice schema). This post provides insight into the negative impact of both schemas on relationship functioning and mental health symptoms such as depression and anxiety.
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Depression, Schema Concepts

Impaired Autonomy and Performance: Suffering from Chronic Feelings of Worthlessness and Inadequacy

October 31, 2023

This post explores the impact of Impaired Autonomy and Performance domain schemas, particularly Failure Schema, and how Failure Schema often underpins depression and drives feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy.
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Psychological Concepts, Relationships, Schema Concepts

Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address Needs

September 16, 2023

This post discusses the ineffectiveness of mind-reading in relationships and explores the impact of Self-Sacrificing, Narcsissistic, and Borderline Personality characteristics on relationships.
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Psychological Concepts

Trauma and Parts of Self: Understanding Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing Managers in Ourselves

March 21, 2022

This post explores conceptualization of Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing or Caregiving relationship styles through the lens of Internal Family Systems and managing parts-of-self.
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Psychological Concepts

Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?

February 24, 2022

This post explores the Other-Directedness domain schemas of Approval Seeking, Self-Sacrificing, and Subjugation and the impact that these schemas have on anxiety.
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Services

Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting offers a variety of counseling options for adolescents and adults, including individual, couple, and family counseling, as well as consulting services for non-clinical work. Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting holds the belief that mental health counseling should be a holistic approach that doesn’t simply treat mental health symptoms, but assists clients in better understanding their values and priorities, finding meaning, and building a healthy and hopeful future. Counseling sessions are multi-faceted, including an in-depth and strategic approach to understanding the personality, needs, values, and background of each client. Counseling work is focused on repairing harmful beliefs, challenging unhealthy ways of thinking, and improving overall relationship and life satisfaction. Evidenced based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy are used to address anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a variety of other troubling mental health disorders.

“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
C. S. Lewis

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About the Website

Epijennetics.com was inspired by the science of Epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work, without altering actual DNA itself. This is thought to be the process that is behind transgenerational trauma, or the effects of trauma that are passed down through families. Not only is the impact of traumatic events passed down, but often harmful relationship patterns and belief systems are as well.

Epijennetics, the website, is intended to provide content that is easy to digest but powerfully transformative if applied to ones life. Each blog included is intended to present Psychological concepts that I hope will inspire you to explore the various ways that thought life impacts behavior and feelings. Thoughts are often automatic and unconscious, having been the result of messages received from others or experiences with others. These thoughts not only come from experiences in ones life directly, but also through transgenerational patterns and beliefs. Concepts in blog articles are pulled from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, as well as other counseling theories.

It is my honest belief that inside of each of us is the capacity to transform our lives through renewed thinking, intentional behavioral change, and new relational experiences. It is my hope that through reading the content presented you can gain new insight into the ways that your thoughts and beliefs have led you down futile roads. I hope that the road ahead presents opportunities for growth and change, and that you can see them as such. I hope that when your thoughts are hindering you, not helping you, that you can back up and think again, hence preventing falling into self-defeating patterns and reactivity.

Latest Posts

The Entitlement Spectrum: The Importance of Knowing Where You FallApril 22, 2024
Impaired Autonomy and Performance: Suffering from Chronic Feelings of Worthlessness and InadequacyOctober 31, 2023
Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address NeedsSeptember 16, 2023
Trauma and Parts of Self: Understanding Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing Managers in OurselvesMarch 21, 2022
Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?February 24, 2022

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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

The Entitlement Spectrum: The Importance of Knowing Where You Fall

Impaired Autonomy and Performance: Suffering from Chronic Feelings of Worthlessness and Inadequacy

Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address Needs

Trauma and Parts of Self: Understanding Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing Managers in Ourselves

Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?

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