PRESTON JONES

There comes a time for us all that has us down, sad, and feeling as if we do not matter in our lives, within our family structures, and in the world. I have encountered many who experience these concerns in their lives. Navigating this area can become daunting but with patience and understanding may also be liberating. I provide patience, understanding, and a way out through motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and activity to help retrain the thought process for success.

Anxiety is based in fear and controlling the encounters with this particular fear. The worry may become stagnating and in some cases paralyzing. The key contributor to these unwanted outcomes lies inside our minds. The key component to remediating these outcomes is to journey into our minds and pinpoint patterns of thought. I assist with this process by helping you become more self-aware of thoughts that deal in irrational beliefs then debunk these beliefs with rational inventory.

With all the things we have to do and accomplish in our daily lives, attention deficit can be exhausting mentally. Staying focused and organized is a constant battle with simultaneous stimulating events in your life and immediate environment. My approach is to utilize your environment and objects in it to create accommodations that develop into routine, repetition, and compensation. These are brought to the surface using client-centered and solution-focused modalities and activities.

Mindfulness is a significant way to assist with managing Anxiety, Depression, and Anger. It is important to be able to show self-awareness and reflection to help draw out questions and concerns about yourself that can help you to get to the truth about your thoughts and feelings.

For relationships, the goal is to get to the understanding of what it means to have "relationship" and what this means to the couple. I like to paint the picture of the relationship being more of a structure than a "you and me". With this approach, I am able to help clients see and understand that issues and concerns that might seem to hurt or neglect "you" or "me" instead is hurting or neglecting the structure. Appreciation of the structure is built-in appreciation of each other.

CBT is an excellent modality to use to help clients to become more clear minded of their own cognitive processes that may be assisting in the cause of their concerns. I like to rule out any evidence of distortion clients may experience due to coping or defense mechanisms that have developed and grown into ideology, belief, and attitude. This process is to help provide clarity on a clients life and past exploration becomes imminent to help build presence for today and restructuring the future.