Dan Jones
Dan is a Licensed Social Worker with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from The Ohio State University, a Juris Doctorate from The University of Michigan Law School, and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from The Ohio State University.
Dan takes a collaborative, client-centered approach to therapy, recognizing that each client is the expert regarding their own experience of life. Dan endeavors to provide an authentic, validating, and nonjudgmental environment through which clients can safely process the entire range of their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Fundamental to Dan’s approach to therapy are certain bedrock assumptions, including that no one is defective or broken and that healing is always possible. Dan is particularly interested in investigating at a pace and depth comfortable for his clients “the places that scare,” as these often illuminate the path towards healing.
Dan does not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy and employs both top-down (i.e., talk-centric) and bottom-up (i.e., body-centric) approaches depending on the client’s needs. This multifaceted approach could include EMDR, mindfulness, somatic work, solutions-focused therapy, and motivational interviewing, among other modalities. Driven by a deep commitment to help clients to the best of his ability, Dan continually seeks to expand his knowledge and skills to provide the highest level of care. Dan is trained in EMDR and is able to employ EMDR for interested clients.
Dan works with individuals aged 18+. While he treats a broad range of presenting concerns, he feels like a particularly strong fit for clients who seek help regarding trauma processing and recovery, PTSD, anxiety, social anxiety (or avoidant personality disorder), toxic shame, depression, identity formation, and/or spiritual concerns (all faiths or lack thereof welcome), whether family, cultural, or identity conflict or spiritual awakening.
In Dan’s free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching Netflix, walking on nature trails, meditating, bird watching, following professional sports, and spending time with his family and friends.
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What does trauma recovery mean to you?
“The signature characteristic of trauma is that it results from any experience that is too much, too soon, or too fast for the nervous system to digest. We then lack the ability to integrate the event into our experience of living, which results in traumatic residue being “stuck” in the body. This "stuck" energy, wanting to be resolved, causes tension in our mind and body as it seeks our attention, often creating a vicious negative feedback loop. In other words, and to paraphrase Dr. Gabor Mate’, trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside of you as a result.
The impact of trauma is often to feel a kind of narrowing, a limiting. It restricts us from feeling fully engaged in life, sometimes to the point of not feeling alive. While trauma is usually experienced as unpleasant, it’s important to keep in mind that it’s trying to serve us in some way, often as a form of protection. Trauma recovery means restoring inner harmony and a fundamental sense of safety and well-being. It's creating the space for the "stuck" energetic residue of trauma to release itself, realizing it doesn't have to restrict us to keep us safe. Recovery from trauma comes with it a sense of liberation, of reawakening to a world of new possibilities while also reconnecting to the deepest, most precious parts of ourselves. We develop the self-assurance to fully engage with life again, to feel alive.” - Dan Jones
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