Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting: Libertyville Mental Health Service

Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting: Libertyville Mental Health Service

  • Psychological Concepts, Relationships

    When Misinterpretations add Insult to Injury

    March 19, 2025
    When Misinterpretations add Insult to Injury

    This post explores how misunderstandings and misconceptions can cause undue pain and suffering in relationships. Examples of common misunderstandings in couple’s therapy are given. Practical tips for utilizing conflict to gain understanding and empathy and for communicating effectively are offered.

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  • Relationships

    Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

    November 9, 2020
    Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

    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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  • Relationships

    Validation and the Walls Before Us

    September 29, 2020
    Validation and the Walls Before Us

    This post explores the impact of not receiving validation from those close to us. This post also includes steps to take to increase likeliness of receiving and giving validation.

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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. Read more

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.

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Latest Posts

  • The Importance of Understanding ADHD Relationships: Therapist Tips for Navigating ADHD Challenges in RelationshipsSeptember 30, 2025
  • Are You a Realist or is Negativity & Pessimism Schema Ruining Your Perspective?April 29, 2025
  • When Misinterpretations add Insult to InjuryMarch 19, 2025
  • The Impact and Treatment of Social Isolation SchemaAugust 23, 2024
  • The Entitlement Spectrum: The Importance of Knowing Where You FallApril 22, 2024

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