I help people who are stuck in one-sided relationships and who struggle with burnout, resentment, anxiety, guilt, and shame. My clients also tend to repress or avoid anger and conflict.
The Enneagram is a personality framework that reveals people’s autopilot patterns of thinking, feeling, and doing. It shows the WHY we do the WHAT we do (different from other frameworks that just focus on external behaviors).
Each of the nine Enneagram types have their go-to core needs, wounds, beliefs, and defense mechanisms that used to be helpful when people were more vulnerable (such as their childhood), but these same patterns are not useful as adults (even creating problems).
Brainspotting is a trauma therapy approach similar to EMDR and is also body-based. It is based on the idea, “Where you look affects how you feel.” Brainspotting therapy helps people access and work out painful trauma experiences and “sticky” feelings that typical talk therapy is less effective in.
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) compose 20% of the population. This is not a diagnosis because the HSP trait is not a problem per se, but sensitive folks tend to take on more judgment and criticism from communities/societies that value power, strength, and impact more than sensitivity to subtleties, emotions, and reflection.
HSPs tend to overly focus on emotions and have difficulties in relationships because of poor boundaries or aversion to conflict and self-promotion. They tend to have coping mechanisms designed to minimize themselves and their needs, take on more responsibilities than is appropriate, and judge themselves.