
Eggshell Therapy and Coaching provides mental health consultations for highly sensitive, neurodivergent, emotionally intense and gifted adults. This article will look at the practice’s ethos and mission, providing an overview of services offered by them to help clients make lasting changes and face life’s inevitable challenges.
Practice founder Imi Lo, primary creator of Eggshell Therapy and Coaching’s web content, has interviewed numerous experts from around the world for the site’s podcast. Citing her mission as helping people on their journey from healing to thriving, Lo helps clients answer questions that spark self-reflection and inspiration, helping them to see what an authentic, meaningful life means to them and make the changes necessary to live a life that aligns with their integrity and values.
Eggshell Therapy and Coaching helps clients to look at past wounds. However, rather than dwelling on blame, they help clients break entrenched mental blockages and release what might be weighing them down. Imi Lo helps clients to make lasting changes to avoid slipping back into compulsive behaviors or dysfunctional patterns, better positioning them to overcome obstacles and deal with challenges.
Unlike traditional life coaching or therapy, Eggshell Therapy and Coaching focuses on helping people to make sense of the experience of living with emotional intensity, encouraging clients to own their intensity and sensitivity, live authentically and release their suppressed creative potential. Drawing from a synthesis of Eastern philosophies and Western psychology, discussions may involve a range of different techniques and traditions, including philosophical counselling, Jungian/depth psychology; mindfulness and Buddhist psychology; psychosynthesis; Japanese psychology; and coaching with creative arts.
Rather than providing a temporary fix, Eggshell Therapy and Coaching helps clients to address problems at their roots. Like good nutrition, they build clients up from the inside, helping them to grow resilient in the face of life’s challenges and make lasting changes that dispel their struggles at source. Rather than focusing solely on intellectual and cognitive processes, Eggshell Therapy and Coaching’s practices also involve emotional, physiological and energetic changes.
In 2019, Imi Lo launched the Intense Mind Podcast, exploring the unique qualities of individuals who feel deeply and think intensely. Lo has interviewed a diverse group of guests, including specialist psychologists and Jungian analysts, as well as artists, poets and various specialists. In one of the podcast’s most well-received episodes, the Jungian analyst James Hollis explored the subject of the existential crisis. In another episode, Dr Steven Hayes spoke about acceptance and commitment therapy, touching on the topic of gifted trauma with Jennifer, the founder of Intergifted.
The goal of the Intense Mind Podcast is to learn from guests, their struggles and the difficulties they had to overcome, tapping into their creative side, embracing who they are, and finding others who appreciate them. These stories offer great resonance and valuable lessons for everyone.
Imi Lo’s book, Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity, is available in multiple languages, helping readers to debunk mental health stereotypes and myths about emotional sensitivity and intensity. The book’s goal is to help readers develop reliance, heal from the past, express themselves truthfully, and build healthy and fulfilling relationships. Imi Lo is also the author of The Gift of Intensity, another internationally acclaimed title available in multiple languages.
Having held various professional roles, including psychotherapist, mental health supervisor, trainer to therapists and coaches, and suicide crisis counsellor, Imi Lo has worked for several well-known international organizations, including the mental health charity Mind and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Holding two master’s degrees, one in Buddhist studies and one in mental health, she is the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including the international Endeavour Award (awarded by the Australian Government). Her insights and expertise have been featured in several major publications including Psychologies Magazine, Business Insider and The Telegraph.