JoLynn, “Jo” brings over a decade of counseling experience. She obtained a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Liberty University. Her training encompasses families, couples, men and women, children, and adolescents from various walks of life. JoLynn is comfortable helping diverse populations and personalities. JoLynn is confident in her skill set to address stigmatized mental health concerns such as clinical depression, adjustment and anxiety disorders, bipolar, anger, trauma, and attachment issues from childhood. She also understands that regardless of stigma, victimization, or choices; there are consequences that can leave a person struggling with deep-rooted shame and guilt.
JoLynn has had the privilege of assisting young adults and mid-career adults to establish their vocational goals. Parents of children have collaborated with her as it relates to parenting skills, behavior issues at home, and school achievement goals as well as decisions with technical training and college choices. Adult children have consulted with JoLynn to problem-solve and ascertain the best care for their elderly parents.
With ever-increasing societal demands; JoLynn is sensitive to these pressures it has on women. She successfully collaborates with marginalized women who need support with all their roles and responsibilities such as single moms, working moms, new moms, step moms, and grandmoms and surrogate mothers. JoLynn enjoys working with healing and strengthening mother and daughter relationships, friendships, and sister relationships. She understands the complexity of adolescent, and teen girls and young adult women throughout their developmental span. She has coached women and men to sustain recovery from substances and codependent relationships. She uses psychoeducation to teach strong personal, mental, physical, and spiritual growth. JoLynn also excels at counseling from an integrative framework; Christian accommodating psychotherapies She helps those struggling with grief and loss, reconstruct new meaning, purpose, and hope.
JoLynn’s professional strengths include a history of training and experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. JoLynn has received professional trauma training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy through EMDRIA. In addition, JoLynn enjoys working with couples who are Christians through Emotionally Focused Therapy (established through the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy). She has a deep commitment to developing her eclectic modalities. She continues to pursue education and professional experience in treatment options such as brief, Solution Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems as well as Parts Work and Process-Based Experiential Psychotherapies.
Therapy with JoLynn is engaging. She has been told she has a disarming style; comfortable yet challenging. Warm and direct. Humorous and thoughtful. Energetic and yet down-to-earth. She believes the therapeutic relationship needs to be collaborative. Regardless of therapeutic modalities ultimately it’s the relationship that will inspire change and hope.
