Dr. Ashlyn Jones is co-founder and co-owner of Jones & Luther Counseling and Training Center.

She has worked with individuals and couples for many years as a licensed professional counselor. She enjoys building the therapeutic relationship and using her skills to discern what is below the surface of a problem and understand the relationship between interpersonal dynamics, circumstances, upbringing and personality that are part of how we see and approach a problem in our lives. She tends to be highly interactive in her approach with feedback, questions and direct observations to understand and connect with the client’s experience. She primarily uses a systems perspective and attachment lens paired with practical skills of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) when working with individuals and an emotionally focused approach (EFT) when working with couples.

She has worked primarily with older adolescents and adults with complex and single incident trauma recovery, grief, marital and family conflict, and post-divorce relational issues.

Dr. Jones has a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education Social Studies, a Master’s Degree in Counseling (Cairn University) and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision (Regent University).

In addition to counseling, Dr. Jones has several years of teaching experience in higher education. She has taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology and counseling. She also enjoys supervising and developing counselors. She has presented at a number of professional conferences on the following topics: cultural humility, developing humility in leadership, trauma advocacy, trauma informed education, supervision, suicide assessment and treatment and ethical care of counselors to prevent burnout.

Recommended Books:

• For Grief: Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff

• For Wisdom: Living Life Backwards by David Gibson

• For Leadership: Leading with A Limp by Dan Allender

Favorite Quotes:

"The best way out, is always through” -Robert Frost

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” -Therese de Lisieux

"We probably have wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden. But if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it." -Henri Nouwen

“It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” -Wendell Berry

“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.” -Dinah Craik

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering" -Saint Augustine

Fee: $175 per session