Brian Jones (He/him/his)

Body image issues in men just aren't talked about, are they? I want to help to change that. Our appearances are tied to our masculinity, which then brings up all kinds of issues about the toxic masculinity messages we were raised in. Maybe we even participated in that kind of regressive thinking when we were younger, and are trying to reconcile that with who we want to be now. While this is a binary description, I do this sort of work with all genders and sexual orientations.

You can't stop thinking about the future. It's hard to stay in the present. It affects your eating, your sleeping, your work, your relationships, and everything else. The good news is I've got a TON of coping skills for us to try, from journaling to improv to throwing ice cube at the side of an empty parking garage. While we try different skills week-to-week, I'll also help you look into where the anxiety truly comes from, and if there's a way to change your expectations for yourself.

You can't stop thinking about the future. It's hard to stay in the present. It affects your eating, your sleeping, your work, your relationships, and everything else. The good news is I've got a TON of coping skills for you to try, from journaling to improv to throwing ice cube at the side of an empty parking garage. While we try different skills week-to-week, I'll also help you look into where the anxiety truly comes from, and if there's a way to change your expectations for yourself.

You can't stop thinking about the future. It's hard to stay in the present. It affects your eating, your sleeping, your work, your relationships, and everything else. The good news is I've got a TON of coping skills for you to try, from breathing to journaling to throwing ice cube at the side of an empty parking garage. While we try different skills week-to-week, I'll also help you look into where the anxiety truly comes from, and if there's a way to change your expectations for yourself.

I've been actively working with eating disorders since 2018. I have experience helping people with symptoms of food restriction, bulimia, and binge eating. I work from a Health At Every Size framework so that no matter where your ED is coming from, we'll start by meeting you where you are today. Whether you're brand new to the possibility of having an ED, or you need a hand in continuing the next step in your recovery, I'm here to help.

ACT is all about powering up and working through discomfort by remembering what's really important to you. So, for instance, if you're uncomfortable finishing what's on your plate, you remember that the real reason you sat down for dinner was to continue your recovery, which is important because your family and friends need you and you want to be healthy so you can still go to Spain next summer. In other words, you ACCEPT the discomfort and COMMIT to your values. Get it?

Dialectics are two seemingly opposite things that can somehow exist at the same time, such as a) accepting yourself for who you are now and b) trying to change for the better. DBT is kind of like a giant playbook of different skills for coping, regulating emotions, relationships, and more. I talk about it all the time. I ALSO talk about its brand-new baby sibling, Radically Open DBT. RO-DBT is all about how social signaling affects our openness to new things.

You're human! I'm human! That's where we're all starting from, meaning that we're therapist and client second. So I know I'm going to mess up from time to time; I invite you to take a chance and mess up sometimes too. Let's own what happens and get into the muck together. In the meantime, I really believe in your strengths (and will highlight them A LOT), and will work SIDE-BY-SIDE with you to figure out what you need and how to get it.

Spiritual abuse is an issue very close to my heart, given my own struggles related to religion. One obstacle to recovering from religious trauma is that it sometimes isn't enough to know that you believe something different now. Sometimes our bodies don't care what we believe, and continue to hold on to pain. As an Internal Family Systems therapist, I can help you to connect to your nervous system and work through the parts of you that hurt somatically. This work will go at your own pace.

I primarily work from an Internal Family Systems orientation. I am level 1 trained in IFS through the IFS Institute. IFS is an evidence-based practice that can be used for pretty much any type of issue, but it is especially useful for working through trauma. Using IFS, I can guide the process but my clients really lead us in whichever direction they need. IFS explains people in terms of "parts" rather than being single-minded, which tracks for people with religious trauma and eating disorders.