Power of Perspective: Cycle or Spiral?

Power of Perspective: Cycle or Spiral?

You may feel sometimes like you’re going in circles - expending so much energy, time, and resources to change, only to find yourself in the same place all over again. As more time goes on, you feel like the future is bleak - what’s the point of trying, if it’s going to be the same? Perhaps what’s the issue is not what’s happening but how you perceive what’s happening. What if you ARE actually changing?

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 Does Brainspotting Work?

How Does Brainspotting Work?

Brainspotting (BSP) is a way to jumpstart our bodies’ natural ability to process experiences reactive emotional experiences like anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and shame, heal from trauma, and enhance significant relationships. Learn how Brainspotting works, and what benefit Brainspotting therapy may offer you so that you can feel grounded and present to engage life to the fullest.

What is Brainspotting?

What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is a brain-based processing method similar to EMDR that channels the body’s natural ability to heal itself from overwhelming or stressful experiences that generate symptoms like anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, and overreactivity. It does so by finding specific eye positions (Brainspots) linked to unprocessed stress experiences stored in the brain and letting the body “detox”.

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.

How to Help a Loved One Ground: Sensory Recall

How to Help a Loved One Ground: Sensory Recall

If your loved ones are feeling really overwhelmed with “big feelings” like anxiety, anger, or sadness, here’s one way to help them anchor themselves to the present and reduce stress using the five senses.

Living Wholehearted: Emotions Help Us Thrive

Living Wholehearted: Emotions Help Us Thrive

Emotions are an essential part of life and relationships. Try as you might, you won’t be able to get rid of them…and there’s no need to! Anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, and sadness reveal legitimate needs that all of us have. As we reintegrate emotions back into our lives, we are empowered to engage life to the fullest.