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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

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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Psychological Concepts, Relationships

Change: A Million Little Things

January 10, 2022

This blog explores the many factors that contribute to growth and healing in the context of counseling and therapy.
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Narrative, Relationships

Sexuality: The Messages We Hold Close

October 12, 2020

This post describes the benefits of exploring sexual messages by utilizing a sexual experiences time-line. Additionally, this post offers guidance for exploring sexual experiences and messages and the impact that messages can have on individuals.
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Narrative

Resiliency: Naming the Catalyst

October 8, 2020

This post explores the concept of resiliency and how obstacles and difficulties can actually act as catalysts for increasing resiliency and growth.
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Schema Concepts

Schema: Don’t Be a Puppet at the Mercy of Your Past

September 24, 2020

This post defines schema and explores Schema Therapy and the impact of schema and narrative on how we practice owning our stories.
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Psychological Concepts

Expectations and Fairness: Can You Tell the Difference?

September 20, 2020

This post explores the potential to blame others when we are not intentional about differentiating between our own expectations and the perception of unfairness and fairness in actions of others.
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Personality States, Relationships

Needing in a Time of Uncertainty

September 3, 2020

This post explores the challenges of coping with COVID or other situations which have a high level of uncertainty. Post encourages individuals to explore their feelings and needs and practice naming them. Additionally, this post questions the American value of self-sufficiency and whether that is helping individuals to ask for help or get their needs…
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Our Services

Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting offers a variety of counseling options for adolescents and adults, including individual, couple, and family counseling. We believe that mental health counseling should be a holistic approach, not just treating mental health symptoms, but assisting clients in better understanding their values and priorities, finding meaning, and building a healthy and hopeful future. Counseling is comprised of many facets, including an in-depth 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.

About the Website

Epijennetics.com, previously thinkagainjenn.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

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
Change: A Million Little ThingsJanuary 10, 2022
Guilt and Projective Identification: Bait for NarcissistsMay 18, 2021