Personal Growth

Enneagram Type Seven: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Seven: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Sevens (Type 7s) are exceptional thinkers and brainstormers but can often get stuck inside their heads in ideas and dreams. Read about what it’s like being a Type Seven from Stefie Dominguez, a full-time grad student, musician, and therapist-in-training.


Enneagram Type Three: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Three: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Threes (Type 3s) often live life as a performance, seeking love and acceptance through success and achievements, often not realizing the connections they can make by just being themselves. Read about what it’s like being a Type Three from Morgan, a guest therapist who helps anxious women who are going through life transitions.

Enneagram Type One: What It's Like

Enneagram Type One: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Ones (Type 1s) often live life according to their strong inner values, with an inner critic to point out the gap between their ideals and reality to prompt improvement. Read about what it’s like being a Type One from Josh, who helps high school students find their way forward.

Juggling Too Many Balls? Which to Keep and Which to Drop

Juggling Too Many Balls? Which to Keep and Which to Drop

Juggling many tasks and responsibilities is HARD. Prioritize tasks before making irreparable mistakes by identifying which of these juggled “balls” are made of rubber, glass, or wood.

How to Get UNSTUCK from DISCONTENT

How to Get UNSTUCK from DISCONTENT

Feeling stuck and dissatisfied with life? Use this vision exercise so that you can break out of the swamp of discontent and break down big, abstract dreams into concrete, bite-sized actionable steps.


Radical Candor: Balancing Regard for Self and Others

Radical Candor: Balancing Regard for Self and Others

Do you feel like your needs don’t matter, despite how much you do for others? Learn how to move towards radical candor, a relationship stance that creates room in the relationship big enough for both yourself and others.

Connecting with Safe People

Connecting with Safe People

You may crave healthy relationships, but you might not know just what that looks like. Learn more about the traits of safe vs. unsafe people so that you can learn to distinguish who to draw closer to from who to stay away from and also to grow to become a safe person yourself.

How Do I Find My Enneagram Type?

How Do I Find My Enneagram Type?

The Enneagram is a powerfully comprehensive yet compact resource that reveals the “autopilot” patterns of thinking, feeling, doing, and relating. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you discover your Enneagram type!

Life Timeline: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Life

Life Timeline: A Bird's-Eye View of Your Life

As a follow-up exercise to the Top 10 Best/Worst Memories List, the Life Timeline helps you visually see what larger periods of your life were like and recognize what kinds of needs were and weren’t met.

Enneagram Type Four: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Four: What It's Like

Enneagram Type Fours (Type 4s) often live life within their own internal world, which often leads them to be misunderstood. Read about what it’s like being a Type Four from Joanne, a therapist who specializes in working with Type Fours and their loved ones.

Reducing Stress with the React or Respond Chart

Reducing Stress with the React or Respond Chart

The part of your brain that helps you make wise, sound decisions to manage stress is the very part that also shuts down when you pass a certain threshold. Keep yourself grounded and balanced with this handy worksheet!

How to Find a Therapist or Counselor in San Jose

How to Find a Therapist or Counselor in San Jose

Looking for a new therapist? Finding a great fit is super important for your healing and growth journey. Here’s a list of what kinds of things to consider as you look for your ideal fit, including topics of focus, modalities, fees, and therapist demographics.

Triage Chart: How to Manage Overwhelm

Triage Chart: How to Manage Overwhelm

Feeling overwhelmed by a million things that seem both important and urgent? Click here to learn how to declutter and focus with the triage chart!

How to Make a Genogram

How to Make a Genogram

A genogram is an important tool for self-awareness, personal growth, and relationship development. Create your map that shows where you’re from so that you can decide what kind of relationships you want to create going forward.