For almost thirty years, Dr. Raymond Jones has provided clients with a variety of psychological and aspiration-based services. Through his marriage counseling, Pasadena couples find a supportive, safe environment for exploring solutions to their challenges. Dr. Jones’ work as a life coach has helped individuals set goals and overcome external obstacles to their dreams. Finally, his therapeutic services address the experiences that cause people to act and think in ways that they would like to change.

Marriage Counseling

Dr. Jones provides marriage counseling using a judgment-free approach. He does not serve as a referee, and he does not waste time session after session focusing on what each partner has said or done. He avoids what he terms “a pathway of blame” in marriage counseling. Pasadena couples will instead find guidance and techniques that help each person in the relationship to step outside of their situation and to see the other anew.

One of the goals of Dr. Jones’ work is to help marriages—whether they are as old as three years, five years, or fifteen years—to move beyond failed patterns and to return to a notion of service to one another. He addresses a variety of concerns, from the “Sexless Marriage” issue to financial arguments to a lack of affection or understanding. Dr. Jones can work with individuals or both members of the couple in marriage counseling.

Pasadena Life Coaching

Dr. Jones offers personal and professional life coaching to those who want to achieve their dreams. Similar to his other services, he counsels his clients in a way that is filled with compassion and understanding. Dr. Jones helps them break through cycles of inactivity, frustration, fear, or confusion to develop a positive outward focus.

Goals vary, but they include the improvement of personal relationships, increased confidence, and the attainment of new business opportunities. Dr. Jones works with clients to break down complicated or far-reaching aspirations into their basic steps. From there, he prescribes exercises that help clients set goals, identify skills that they will need to reach those aims, and take the steps to gain those skills.

Psychological Therapy

Dr. Jones holds a PhD in Psychology and specializes in a number of related areas, including marriage therapy and addiction. Through his work in psychotherapy, he helps patients resolve unwanted behavioral patterns, feelings, and thoughts.

Clients come to Dr. Jones for a variety of reasons including relationship failures, substance abuse, compulsivity, and addiction counseling. Pasadena residents can expect Dr. Jones to pull from varied techniques. While he offers traditional psychotherapy, Dr. Jones is also trained in guided imagery and hypnosis, which help him address the desires and the appetites that fuel his clients’ behaviors. By reaching the level of the unconscious, he can cut down on treatment time and allow patients to see success more quickly.

Your Experience with Psychotherapy and Addiction Counseling

The decision to seek therapy is not always easy. Often, people wrestle with issues of obsession and compulsion, or they become frustrated that they cannot resolve their issues. Sometimes, this is because they view the challenge as one of the intellects: an exhausting, unhappy puzzle that they are unable to solve.

Through his work in psychotherapy and addiction counseling near Pasadena, Dr. Raymond Jones understands the issues that people confront. He knows that many of the problems that we face may not be fixed by trying to reason through them because they come from a place inside us that goes beyond conscious thought.

This understanding is one of the reasons that patients choose Dr. Jones’ service and recommend his expertise to others. He approaches therapy from the standpoint of compassion and realism rather than assigning blame or offering criticism. His goal is to address the underlying motivations that are resulting in unwanted emotions and thoughts. He accomplishes these goals through a combination of psychotherapy, innovative techniques, and addiction counseling.

Pasadena Counseling Services: The Process

Typically, new patients contact Dr. Jones to schedule an “initial consultation.” During this important time together, the patient and Dr. Jones work to assess the severity of the issue that he or she is facing.

One of the most important aspects of this session is to determine whether there is a commitment to solving the problem. While this may seem strange, sometimes those who seek an initial consultation are not yet ready to carry through with the emotional experience of therapy. Dr. Jones and the client make this determination together, and if the patient is ready, they move to the next step.

This involves a review of the menu of possible interventions:

  • Patients dealing with compulsivity or obsession may decide to participate in addiction counseling.
  • Pasadena patients may be struggling with feelings of fatigue, deep sadness, and frustration that can be signs of depression.
  • Often, couples choose to see Dr. Jones because they are seeking marriage counseling or sexuality and intimacy therapy.

Whichever path they choose, patients can count on the uplifting, faith-based approach Dr. Jones provides in Christian counseling. Pasadena patients often choose him as their therapist because the guidance he offers is founded on religious tenets and a deep sense of understanding and morality.

Compassion, Innovation, and Christian Counseling

With his approach—combining proven new techniques with the sensitivity and spirituality of Christian counseling—Raymond Jones provides his patients with the compassionate treatment they need.

Dr. Jones offers a variety of services to his clients:

  • Patients dealing with compulsivity or obsession may decide to participate in addiction counseling.
  • Pasadena patients may be struggling with feelings of fatigue, deep sadness, and frustration that can be signs of depression.
  • Often, couples choose to see Dr. Jones because they are seeking marriage counseling or sexuality and intimacy therapy.

One element is common among all of these services: Dr. Jones’ approach to the therapeutic process. He veers away from overly complicated explanations of unconscious decision-making and focuses instead on helping patients grasp challenges and needs on their own terms. Often, he will rely on metaphors, fairy tales, or a religion-based approach to show patients the way forward. Old Testament stories are often applicable and serve as part of what makes his work true Christian counseling.

Pasadena clients will recognize the other part through their sessions together: compassion, understanding, and faithful emotional support. As a therapist and a Christian, Dr. Jones believes that behind all people—no matter the shame or guilt they feel—there is a story that explains their behavior. This does not necessarily justify the behavior itself. However, it creates a space for empathizing, analyzing, and, with effort, resolving.

Dr. Jones studies many different techniques for providing therapy. His open approach to counseling gives patients the chance to experience a treatment method that works for them. To broaden the world of potential solutions, Dr. Jones has studied religion, human sexuality, hypnosis, and other effectors of human behavior. Also, he considers the spiritual element when helping clients explore their past trauma, current relationships, and emotional challenges. Through his Christian counseling, Pasadena patients are able to find not only the guidance they need to understand their issues but also the strength that they require to resolve them.

WE INVITE YOU TO CONTACT DR. JONES ABOUT LIFE COACHING, PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, AND MARRIAGE COUNSELING. PASADENA RESIDENTS SHOULD CALL (626) 827-8997 FOR A CONFIDENTIAL DISCUSSION.