Relationship Counseling

Our approach to relationship counseling aims to help increase emotional connection by addressing negative patterns that couples find themselves in.  Once couples are more secure, they can communicate and solve problems more effectively.
At Secure Connection Counseling, we use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples reconnect and rekindle their relationships. Even the most difficult problems such as sex, betrayal, addiction recovery, and abuse can be addressed with EFT.

Family Therapy

Families can be both our greatest source of joy, and our greatest source of pain!  Sometimes families need that extra help to work through major issues and day-to-day interactions.
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, we can help families communicate and heal, by getting to the root of problems.  Once family members can connect on emotional levels, they can tackle the issues in their lives.

Betrayal Trauma

It’s hard to explain what betrayal trauma feels like to someone who has never been through it. As a result, you may feel alone in your pain. Understanding the effects of betrayal trauma can provide validation. Furthermore, it can help you gain insight into why you may be feeling or reacting to situations the way you are.

At Secure Connection Counseling, we’ll help you determine the correct treatment for your betrayal trauma healing process. To learn more about Betrayal Trauma, click here.

Individual Therapy

While Secure Connection Counseling primarily focuses on relationship counseling, we see a number of individual clients. Sometimes, the relationship one needs to heal is the relationship with one’s Self!

Each of the therapists at Secure Connection Counseling are equipped with a number of therapy models, especially the increasingly popular Internal Family Systems (IFS), or “parts work.”

Individual Therapy can also be utilized to help people recognize the patterns that develop in their relationships with others. This can help them on an individual level to improve their own well-being through improving their relationships.

Group Therapy

There are often times when a group setting is more conducive to healing. Sharing thoughts, troubles, and concerns with a group of individuals going through similar circumstances as your own can be extremely therapeutic.

Also, simply learning new information and skills in an educational setting might be the change that you need.  Secure Connection Counseling is equipped to provide a number of groups and classes.

Telehealth Counseling

The COVID-19 crisis created a new world in which telehealth appointments became the norm rather than an exception. Many people have gotten used to this new paradigm and prefer visiting with a counselor in the comfort of their homes. Others feel the face-to-face interaction you get from a visit to a counselor’s office is still their preferred method of therapy.

At Secure Connection Counseling, we are open to either situation. If you have questions about telehealth appoints, click here.

Sexual Compulsion and Addiction

Some have struggles with sexual compulsions that have plagued their lives and relationships. For many, the use of pornography or other sexual acts have damaged one’s psyche and self-esteem, and have created trauma in intimate relationships.

At Secure Connection Counseling, we can help individuals not only free themselves from the trap of sexual compulsion and addiction, but we can especially help relationships heal from its traumatizing effects.

Clinical Supervision

David Jones is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and can supervise clinicians who are working on their clinical degree or working toward graduation or licensure. He specializes in helping new clinicians build confidence in clinical skills and conceptualizing cases systemically.  He focuses on experiential learning and role-playing to build capacity.

Contact David if you’d like to discuss receiving supervision.