I help people find “healing in the broken places”
Counseling for Individuals and Couples navigating the challenges of broken relationships
In-person in Dallas, TX and online throughout Texas
welcome to Jonathan Olvera Counseling.
I grew up in the Northwest in the midst of huge forests. I’ve seen the devastation of a forest fire and I remember the terrible fires in Yellowstone National Park that left people wondering what the future would hold for that beloved park.
It was amazing the beauty that blossomed out of that destruction the very next year. When the conditions are right the forest will naturally begin to heal, and I’ve found that humans are created to do the same.
Just like the healing that goes on after a forest fire, I’m now working with individuals and couples who have faced the fire and are struggling to get beyond the ashes and brokenness to a place of healing.
Ready to see beauty from the ashes?
Counseling can bring hope.
The journey is difficult, but the reward is growth.
Counseling Specialty Areas
As a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate I’ve been exploring several areas of specialty and have trained in various areas of mental health.
Relationships
It has been said elsewhere. “The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life.”
Whether you are an individual isolating from others or struggling with your partner, I believe counseling work done in the area of relationships will improve the quality of your life.
I work with couples and individuals in the areas:
- Broken Communication
- Marriage difficulties
- Sex
- Sexual addiction
- Family conflict
- Other challenges
Trauma Informed
“Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you” Gabor Mate.
I work from a trauma informed lens that gently helps connect the dots of your young life and struggles to how they are working themselves out in your life today. I focus on attachment and neuroaffective processes that recognize 5 core needs we have. Connection, Attunement, Trust, Autonomy and Love-Sexuality.
- Childhood trauma (abuse, neglect)
- Religious abuse
- Sexual abuse
- PTSD
- Disasters
Faith Based
If your faith is important to you, it should be an important part of your healing process. Making sense of God’s plan in the middle of difficult times is often a disorienting process and it’s important to not do it alone.
Faith based counseling often addresses many of the same concerns as other types of counseling. However, this would allow you to incorporate your spiritual beliefs into your therapy.
For those who want a faith based perspective I have the ability to integrate mental, emotional, relational and spiritual into your healing journey.
Counseling that brings hope.
Scorched
We all live in a world that is prone to wildfire and the result of a wildfire can be devastating. Wildfires happen due to various reasons. Some man-made by mismanagement or a lack of care, some natural with no explanation whatsoever.
In what ways have you been scorched and are looking for answers?
Nothing but Ashes
Our world is broken, and you might feel like a wildfire has gone through your life and all that’s left are ashes and burned trees.
Betrayed, burned, lost, alone.
Before, there was life around you and in you, but right now it seems to be ashes and destruction as far as you can see.
Aloneness
AlonenessIt hurts. Bad.
Now you hide it all away from the world, not sure anyone would even want to enter these ashes. Not even sure you want to enter the ashes.
So you carry on around the edges, careful around the burned parts. Just trying to keep the rest of your life from going up.
Looking
Carrying the pain alone is all too often common and a natural reaction. Isolation is a tendency many of us have, but you might be sensing that counseling will help.
You’ve been fighting a battle inside for a long time.
You don’t have to do it alone.
Hope
There is hope.
There is healing.
I’m ready to walk with you on this healing journey. Let’s get started today.