Empathy is about having the skills to notice the thoughts and feelings of others; to consider that you are not the only individual experiencing emotions and sensations. It is recognizing that your opinion is not the only point of view. Added to that, empathy is to collaborate with others in an effort to resolve conflict even if their stance is in opposition to your own. People who make a genuine effort to understand the meaning of the thoughts and feelings others are living through. Furthermore, empathy means to identify with and authentically care about how someone else is affected by your behavior, choices, and attitudes. In order to demonstrate empathy to another person, one must think about whether you might like to be handled in the same way I am dealing with another.
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More about Sherrie L. King, M.S, LPC, GC-C
Sherrie L. King is part of the Flourishing Hope Counseling team. She is an excellent clinician. Mrs. King is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Grief Counselor with over eight years of experience has transformed her life after enduring narcissistic abuse. Thriving in her recovery, she has helped countless children, adolescents, spouses, and adult children of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) parents.
Sherrie understands the heightened levels of distress, grief, PTSD, family estrangement, and abandonment these individuals face due to the complexities of the NPD family dynamic. She is dedicated to healing the mother wound and, as a post-trauma thriver with 15 years of no contact, she knows firsthand the importance of being heard and understood on the healing journey.