Marriage & Family Therapist Glendora, CA

The classic conception of family counseling is a confrontational atmosphere, where family members are forced into a room together to air their grievances and face the full brunt of the fallout head-on. However, Dr. Raymond Jones, LFMT, CSAT prefers to approach family counseling for Glendora, CA in a more comfortable and ultimately more productive manner. Tensions within a family have clear and definitive underlying issues—and rather than exacerbating these tensions to the breaking point (and then leaving family members to live with the broken pieces until the next session), Dr. Jones works on gently unwinding the strain by exploring the root causes from a place of security and non-judgment.

In many cases, this consists of several one-on-one sessions with siblings, children, parents and step-parents that allow Dr. Jones to understand how each individual relates to the family and home environment. After years of working with all types of families—including blended families, single-parent families, and families affected by alcoholism, divorce, or abuse—Dr. Jones has experience with helping individuals overcome strife and adjust to the changing family dynamic. Through family counseling, each member of the family will be able to stand up and be recognized for his or her unique talents and integral role within the family.

Families emerge from counseling feeling happier, closer, and most importantly, safe and secure in their own homes. Dr. Jones reintroduces communication, compassion, and respect into the family and makes each member eager to contribute to and compromise for the best interests of their parents, children, and siblings. In addition to illuminating and resolving underlying family issues, sessions may include substance abuse counseling, marital counseling, and Christian family counseling in situations where families may benefit.

If you’re interested in strengthening your relationship with your loved ones, call our office and ask about family counseling.

Marriage Counseling

Glendora and the surrounding area is a beautiful, inspiring place to fall in love, get married, and raise a family. But the emotional and spiritual bedrock of your relationship is doubly as important as its geographical roots. As a Christian marriage counselor, Dr. Raymond Jones can help you strengthen the foundation of your relationship as you venture toward marital bliss. He does so by taking a holistic approach to couples counseling, including:

Premarital Counseling

Marriage is an undeniably spiritual journey—the role that churches often play in pre-marriage counseling highlights this fact. Like your local church, Dr. Jones can help couples define and deepen their faith before entering into marriage. As a Masters in Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy, Dr. Jones can offer biblical insight and wisdom from the Christian traditions. However, you won’t be confronted by judgment, shame, or guilt with Dr. Raymond Jones, LFMT, CSAT—instead, Dr. Jones helps couples build their marriage on a faith that is mutually authentic, meaningful, and nurturing.

Sex Therapy

Sexuality and spirituality are intimately connected and immeasurably vital to a marriage. As a clinical sexologist, Dr. Jones is well-versed in the full spectrum of sexuality issues that can affect the enjoyment of intimacy within a relationship. As a certified sex addiction therapist and abuse therapy specialist, Dr. Jones can help couples overcome past trauma and address anxieties, uncertainties, and needs in a healthy manner. This helps realign your sexuality with a joyful spirituality so you can become closer to your spouse or partner.

Family Counseling

The parents are the heart of a family— and just as the ailments of the heart directly affect the rest of the body, so too does marital strife affect the family. Dr. Jones has worked with all types of families—including blended, multi-generational, divorced, single-parent, and families affected by abuse, infidelity, and other trying elements. He works one-on-one with each member of the family in a non-confrontational setting so that each individual feels appreciated, recognized, and loved. Afterward, families feel closer, happier, and more secure in their own homes.

Frequently Asked Questions: Couples Counseling

Glendora couples looking to better their relationships have turned to Dr. Raymond Jones for years. As a clinical sexologist, addiction therapist, and master hypnotist, Dr. Jones is equipped with the knowledge and training to help couples overcome the many obstacles that stand between them and a more fulfilling relationship. If you’re interested in building a stronger connection with your loved one, check out some of the answers to some of our most common questions about couples counseling below.

Who Can Benefit From Couples Counseling?

Couples counseling is for any couple that would like to fine-tune, deepen, salvage, or improve their relationship to any degree. That includes married, dating, live-in, divorced, engaged, new, old, steady and on-again-off-again couples.

What Kinds of Issues Does Couples Counseling Address?

Couples counseling will help you overcome big issues—such as infidelity and past or present trauma—and address smaller issues that have an equally significant cumulative impact, such as communication and intimacy.

How Can Couples Counseling Help?

Couples counseling provides a safe place for men and women to discuss their fears, anxieties, and needs. The atmosphere is comfortable—not confrontational. Couples can speak individually or together with complete candidness and authenticity without fear of shame, guilt or condemnation. Dr. Jones can also illuminate and rectify some of the societal roadblocks and gender assumptions that often impede a relationship in subtle, yet pivotal ways.

Why Do So Many Recommend Couples Counseling?

Simply put, reconnecting with your loved one feels good. After counseling, couples report more laughter, more affection, better conversations, and an overall return to joy and romance. Relationships play an immeasurable role in our lives—you’d be amazed by how all of the other pieces (professional, familial, social, and creative) fall into place once you regain the support, love, and confidence of your spouse or significant other.

Where and When Can I Get Started with Couples Counseling?

Glendora area couples can call or visit Dr. Raymond Jones, LFMT, CSAT near Glendora Avenue to schedule a free consultation. At that time, you’ll speak with Dr. Jones about your goals and how can strengthen and deepen your relationship with your couples counseling.

Close-to-Home Christian Family Counseling

Any journey that strengthens your family’s spirituality should be marked by inspiration, joy, and discovery—not shame, guilt, or judgment. This attitude permeates Dr. Jones’ Christian family counseling. Glendora-based Dr. Raymond Jones, a Christian psychologist with a Masters in Divinity in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary, offers a deep philosophical knowledge of Christian traditions as well as an open respect for all faiths. Dr. Jones provides non-denominational spiritual counseling that can heal fractures within your family by helping you become more authentic in your own faith.

The principal benefits that Dr. Jones offers first-time patients are relief and hope. Relief is when patients come expecting judgment, confrontation, shame, and guilt and receive none of it. Hope happens after the first session when patients realize that there is a way to make amends with themselves and their spirituality and reclaim that feeling of stability and purpose.

Christian Marriage Counseling

Because the parents are the heart and soul of the family, the value of premarital counseling and ongoing Christian marriage counseling cannot be overemphasized. Bringing couples onto common spiritual ground is one of the biggest challenges that marriages face. Dr. Jones appreciates the sensitivity of this issue and helps married or engaged couples speak openly about their faith or doubt in a non-confrontational environment as well as any other underlying fears, anxieties, or uncertainties.

Christian Family Counseling

Today’s families face a number of unique challenges, and each family member copes with strife, anxiety, and unmet emotional needs in different ways. This often creates unbearable tension within the home and a pervasive feeling of insecurity that follows family members to work, to school, and into their romantic relationships. Dr. Jones helps ease this tension by working individually with each family member to ensure that they receive the appreciation and recognition within the family that he or she deserves.

Christian Addiction Counseling

In almost every case, reliance on a chemical substance, such as drugs, tobacco or alcohol, stems from a deep-seated spiritual malady. Dr. Jones uncovers this spiritual void by releasing you from your craving. Then, he helps you repair the emotional wreckage that opened the door to addiction and abusive behavior. After addiction counseling, you’ll have the spiritual fulfillment you need to fully devote yourself to your family and loved ones.

As a Christian therapist, Dr. Jones can help you understand and uphold your own faith in a way that strengthens and nurtures your family.

Dr. Raymond Jones Brings Compassionate Counseling to Glendora Patients in Need

You have a God-protected right to feel safe, secure, and fulfilled—whether it’s at home, at work, within a relationship, or simply in your own skin. But the uncertainty, insecurity and utter heartbreak that pervade the human condition can make achieving this level of peace incredibly difficult. If there is something in your life that is standing between you and contentment, Dr. Raymond Jones can help you illuminate it and resolve it so you can enjoy the peace and security that each person deserves.

Overcoming abusive behavior, anxieties, and familial tension begins with making you feel safe and comfortable in our office. From the moment you pick up the phone to schedule your appointment, you’ll be treated with respect, compassion, and understanding. Dr. Jones’s easygoing manner, affable sense of humor, and gentle demeanor make him one of the most approachable counselors in the Glendora area. He creates a safe space for you to discuss and explore the underlying issues that keep you from fulfilling your obligations to yourself, your loved ones, and your community. Once the initial work and healing is completed, you’ll be able to carry this positive stability with you as you emerge on the other side to embrace life.

Dr. Jones always holds your highest interests at heart. He zealously pursues your betterment without pressure, and he wields intuition without judgment, all while working within your comfort zone. From making house calls to offering counseling by phone, your needs, and deeply ingrained anxieties are always respected.

For Addiction Counseling, Glendora’s Dr. Raymond Jones Helps You Heal

Before you read further and before you pick up the phone, we want to reassure you of one thing: you won’t find judgment here. Instead, we offer hope—and we do so through compassionate addiction counseling. Dr. Jones is dedicated to helping you emerge from addiction as a whole individual—spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

Patients are gently guided through this healing process by Dr. Raymond Jones, an addiction counseling specialist. It begins by releasing you from the craving that feeds your drug, sex, or alcohol addiction. Counseling and hypnotherapy have proven to be incredibly effective methods for curing addiction while minimizing the physical and psychological trauma often associated with withdrawal.

After you are freed from the craving element of your alcohol or drug addiction, counseling continues in order to reclaim and repair the emotional damage caused by decades of substance abuse. Dr. Jones helps identify and fill the spiritual void that necessitated a chemical crutch. Rather than prescribing his views and beliefs, he helps you cultivate your own faith so you can feel spiritually grounded in a meaningful way.

Contact Us Today

If you’re interested in strengthening your relationship with your loved ones, contact the office at Dr. Raymond Jones, LMFT, CSAT and ask about family counseling. Glendora families can contact us at (626) 827-8997 or by filling out our online contact form.