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Anxiety, Depression, Psychological Concepts, Relationships, Schema Concepts

The Impact and Treatment of Social Isolation Schema

August 23, 2024

This post explores Social Isolation schema, one of the five Disconnection/Rejection domain schemas identified in Schema Therapy. Examples of possible formation, impact, and treatment are provided to help provide steps for healing.
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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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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Relationships

Putting the Pieces Together: ACTing to Embrace the Life You Have

December 3, 2020

This post explores Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT Therapy, and how expectations and disappointments can keep us trapped in negative cycles and prevent us from embracing the life we have.
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Relationships

Validation and the Walls Before Us

September 29, 2020

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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Addiction

The Starting Lineup: Addiction and Change

September 18, 2020

This post explores the concept of neuroplasticity and how neuroscience impacts additive behaviors. This post offers tips for overcoming addiction by creating new and stronger neuropathways and discontinuing usage of problematic addictive pathways.
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Psychological Concepts

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda: Fighting Words?

September 14, 2020

This post explores Cognitive Behavioral Therapy concepts related to unhealthy thought patterns such as all-inclusive or critical statements such as “should have, could have, would have”. Post offers tips for combatting problematic self-talk or self-judgments.
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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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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.

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