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Kristin F Jones, LMFT
M.A. in Clinical Psychology with Specialization
in LGBTQIA+ populations
Antioch University, Los Angeles, California.
M.S. in Environmental Studies with Specialization
in Urban Environmental Stewardship
Antioch University New England. Keene, New Hampshire
Certified
LGBTQIA Affirmative Therapy
Antioch University, Los Angeles, California
Evidence Based Practices (EBP)
Phillips Graduate Institute, Chatsworth, California
Trained in Post Modern Therapies.
Narrative, Collaborative Language Systems, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
CAMFT
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
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AAMFT
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
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AASECT
American Association of Sexuality, Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
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GLMA
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
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CAMFT
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
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AAMFT
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
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AASECT
American Association of Sexuality, Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
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GLMA
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity”
-Horace Mann, Founder of Antioch
-Horace Mann, Founder of Antioch
previous Pro bono
Agency and Group work
Aids Project Los Angeles (APLA)
Counselor, Facilitator, HIV Men's Group
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Facilitator LGBTQ groups:
Trans-Perspective, Women's Coming Out Group, and Bi-osphere
Life Works
Facilitator Queer Youth Female-identified Group, and LGBTQ youth mentor
Camp Miller Juvenile Detention Center
Counselor, Facilitator for Substance Use Group working with male teens
Phillips Counseling Center
Counselor for children, teens, adults, couples, and families
working with lower income West Valley residents
Studio 12
Counselor, Facilitator working with people pursuing long term sobriety:
Men's and Women's Process Groups, Women's Sexuality Group
Agency and Group work
Aids Project Los Angeles (APLA)
Counselor, Facilitator, HIV Men's Group
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Facilitator LGBTQ groups:
Trans-Perspective, Women's Coming Out Group, and Bi-osphere
Life Works
Facilitator Queer Youth Female-identified Group, and LGBTQ youth mentor
Camp Miller Juvenile Detention Center
Counselor, Facilitator for Substance Use Group working with male teens
Phillips Counseling Center
Counselor for children, teens, adults, couples, and families
working with lower income West Valley residents
Studio 12
Counselor, Facilitator working with people pursuing long term sobriety:
Men's and Women's Process Groups, Women's Sexuality Group
Community Volunteer Work
and active citizenship
touch grass
Tree People
tree planting, fuel management: flammable vegetation and debris removal; community engagement
Sierra Club
canvassing, phone banking, and fundraising
Surf Rider Foundation
removal of bottles, butts, bags, micro plastics, and straws
along Southern California beaches
Heal The Bay
clean up at beaches and watersheds in Los Angeles County
Christmas in July
Volunteer Builder, South Central neighborhoods, Los Angeles
Dyke Day LA
set up, floater, support
AIDS Life Cycle 2
545 miles SF to LA
raised over $3,400 and completed 8 months of training and the full seven day ride
AIDS Life Cycle 8
trained over 800 miles for 10 months raising over $5,000
Election Worker
2024 local, state, and national races
set up, floater, support
AIDS Life Cycle 2
545 miles SF to LA
raised over $3,400 and completed 8 months of training and the full seven day ride
AIDS Life Cycle 8
trained over 800 miles for 10 months raising over $5,000
Election Worker
2024 local, state, and national races
About me, as a person－
Being Receptive is a daily vocation
Outside any professional roles, my personal life is experienced through the embodiment of Southern California’s magnificence. Habitually, I connect to the city, urban forests, surrounding beaches and mountains with my appreciation for reflections, natural light, natural sound, spatial dynamics and shadow. It is known among my kin that I am pugilistically optimistic to my core, possessing strength-based realism whenever I have a personal goal in mind. I have learned from watching nature that the stronger the wind, the stronger the tree. Toil encompasses effort, exertion, and durability.
But like others, I too, trip and whirl in this lifelong dance with self acceptance. Rarely is ‘’personal meaning’’ cobbled and achieved outside the self, nor is it realized solely by tenacity. I have learned through the years that some undesired moments can become self-emptying, and do. These cavernous moments echo, reminding me that chosen and unchosen events are the vital ingredients essential to living a whole life. They assign feelings that befuddle me as I attempt self-understanding, and sometimes the lesson repeats itself, much to my astoundment. I draw back, mystified, drumming through outdated beliefs and feelings in search of new information that I may be fortunate enough to discover this time around. Yes, some days this is self of the therapist. I am one person in a vast place. Aching. Mistaken and Puzzled. Hello, human.
My resolve is summoned each morning with the spiritual development practices of qi gong and yoga, as these calibrate my strength and softness, stirring together what is outside of me and inside. Heart questions are approached with great care in a daily sit practice (MBSR) since 2001. Sitting is the root of my tenderness and fortitude. I also practice walking meditation, which is deeply and internally gratifying and supports sustained focus. But the most portable and important tool in my belt is being immersed in long silence over the course of a weekend. It’s a practice in reconciliation at the nexus of weariness and this chattering desire for a peaceful mind and house; all of which inevitably return me to myself, and to my relationship with people and things. Quiet is medicine, it soothes my ears, mind, and voice. The regularity of these gentle and vigorous exchanges mentioned above beckon my senses to stay a bit longer, each time. They choose me, as opposed to the opposite. They are unification, a merging, and support my desire for a strong constitution.
WC Fields noted, ‘It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to,’ here’s my list: nature enthusiast, beachcomber, community volunteer, LGBTQ elder, LGBTQ youth advocate, animal companion, voracious reader and champion napper. In all of these areas I am a self-described city hermit. Solitude is metamorphosis, poured neat. In 2021, I successfully managed to kick the social media habit completely and mercifully (it's so enjoyable to see where the day takes me).
These practices have been borne from my own failed attempts with self and others as I remind myself of the saying, ‘’if failure don’t hurt, than failure don’t work.” And with that, I have come to learn that life is too brief to give it away to unconsidered choices, or to relationships that lack reciprocity.
In sum, for me it’s about a human desire to bring things closer.
Ever closer.
I asked myself about the present.
How wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep
-Kurt Vonnegut
American Prairie Fairy
Tucson born, raised down South, educated in the Northeast, inhabitant of the West.
I grew up in a family of all black sheep
Audre Lorde said, "we were never meant to survive" Lorde said, "If I didn't define myself for myself" "I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." The Lorde tells us that there is no thing as a single issue struggle Because we do not live single issue lives. The Lorde said, "I am not free while any woman is unfree." The Lorde said, "When the sun rises, we are afraid." "When the sun sets, we are afraid." "When our stomachs are full, we are afraid." "When our stomachs are empty, we are afraid." "When we are loved, we are afraid." "When we are alone, we are afraid." "When we are silent, we are still afraid." (wait for it) (Thus sayeth the Lorde). So the Lorde said, "It is better to speak" "Remembering, we were never meant to survive." And because she knew that speaking was going to be uncomfortable Because she knew that speaking was going to be hard The Lorde tells us our speaking out will irritate some people, Get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt dinner parties. But then the Lorde said our speaking will permit other women to speak Until laws are changed, until lives are saved And the world is altered forever. But the Lorde also said (thus sayeth the Lorde) "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house." They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game." "But they will never enable us to bring about genuine change." The Lorde said, "Revolution is not a one-time event" The good Lorde tells us "There's only one thing more frightening than speaking your own truth" "And that is not speaking" (thus sayeth the Lorde) Audre Lorde said, "it is better to speak remembering" "We were never meant to survive." The Lorde said, "Your silence will not protect you" "So it is better to speak remembering" "We were never meant to survive." We were never meant to survive We were never meant to survive (we were never meant to survive) Thus sayeth the Lorde
Americans must protect each other
respect human rights
queer joy.