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KRISTIN F JONES, LMFT, MS, MA
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
14 years in practice
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
14 years in practice
green panther and weekender
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KRISTIN F JONES, LMFT
Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling
private practice
KRISTIN F JONES, LMFT
Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling
private practice
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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GLMA
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
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AASECT
American Association of Sexuality, Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
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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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GLMA
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
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AASECT
American Association of Sexuality, Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
.
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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
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
Studio 12
Counselor, Facilitator working with people pursuing long term sobriety:
Men's and Women's Process Groups, Women's Sexuality Group
tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are
ºEsmeralda Santiago
ºEsmeralda Santiago
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Community Volunteer Work
and active citizenship
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
Community Volunteer Work
and active citizenship
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
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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
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Out of Session
living the good hours
living the good hours
luxury is different for everyone. this is mine
PHOTO BY KRISTIN F JONES
please, please, please⏤
Reconsider single-use plastics
Repurpose, Reuse
Conserve water
Reduce food waste
Attempt eco-gastronomy
Offset carbon emissions
Practice sustainability outdoors
Support sustainable businesses
Use sustainable cleaning products
Volunteer for environmental causes, local cleanup
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be an ecological thinker ♼ be a conservancy advocate
thanks jimmy, you were the real deal
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be an ecological thinker ♼ be a conservancy advocate
thanks jimmy, you were the real deal
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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, then 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.
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I asked myself about the present:
How wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep
-Kurt Vonnegut
(Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, 1969)
How wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep
-Kurt Vonnegut
(Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, 1969)
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,
and when it comes to these five other human beings;
I wouldn’t change a thing
*⌞ gallopsix ⌟*
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differing genders, sexualities, educational levels, political leanings, (non) religious beliefs, (non) meat eaters, relationship statuses and principles
typical joneses
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I grew up in a family of all black sheep,
and when it comes to these five other human beings;
I wouldn’t change a thing
*⌞ gallopsix ⌟*
❤︎
differing genders, sexualities, educational levels, political leanings, (non) religious beliefs, (non) meat eaters, relationship statuses and principles
typical joneses
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two questions I ask myself daily
FAMILY
What do I owe to the determination of my own family's emigration efforts, to those who worked so hard getting to America?
COUNTRY
What responsibilities do I practice that contribute to this inherited democracy that my own parents fought for to ensure?
FAMILY
What do I owe to the determination of my own family's emigration efforts, to those who worked so hard getting to America?
COUNTRY
What responsibilities do I practice that contribute to this inherited democracy that my own parents fought for to ensure?
Americans must protect each other
respect human rights
respect human rights
Note:
Many therapists post across the socials keeping their therapy website barebones. I don't. The fact that I am an actual person as well as a credentialed, trained, and certified psychotherapist is on this web publication. This all-in-one approach serves the client to have a fuller understanding in hiring this mental health professional. Post-modern, Affirmative, and Feminist therapies are the foundational modalities from which I practice. Each is non-hierarchical, self-disclosing when clinically indicated and dynamic. This triadic framing supports equalization of power and trust building while maintaining ethical guidelines.
Many therapists post across the socials keeping their therapy website barebones. I don't. The fact that I am an actual person as well as a credentialed, trained, and certified psychotherapist is on this web publication. This all-in-one approach serves the client to have a fuller understanding in hiring this mental health professional. Post-modern, Affirmative, and Feminist therapies are the foundational modalities from which I practice. Each is non-hierarchical, self-disclosing when clinically indicated and dynamic. This triadic framing supports equalization of power and trust building while maintaining ethical guidelines.
the brains behind the operation
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