Find healing.

Pursue wholeness.

Restore relationships.

Professional counseling grounded in biblical truth, grace, and compassion.

Types of Counseling

At Mission City Counseling, we provide a safe, compassionate environment where clients can explore their concerns, develop practical coping strategies, strengthen relationships, and discover renewed hope. Our counseling approach combines professional clinical expertise with a Christian worldview, offering care that attends to the emotional, relational, and spiritual dimensions of life.

  • One-on-one sessions focused on your personal growth and healing. Individual counseling addresses concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, identity, and life transitions, giving you a safe space to work through what you're carrying with the support of a trained counselor.

  • For partners at any stage of their relationship, couples counseling creates a space where both people feel heard and understood. Common areas of focus include communication breakdowns, conflict resolution, trust and betrayal, intimacy, and reconnecting after seasons of distance.

  • Family counseling brings household members together to improve communication, resolve conflict, and navigate changing family dynamics — whether that's parenting challenges, blended family adjustments, grief, or simply learning to relate to one another in healthier ways.

  • For couples preparing for marriage, pre-marital counseling helps build a strong foundation before the wedding day. Sessions typically cover communication styles, conflict resolution, expectations around finances and family, and — for couples seeking a Christian perspective — how faith will shape the marriage.

Evidence Based Approaches

  • EFT is grounded in attachment theory — the idea that we're wired for secure emotional bonds with the people closest to us. It's especially effective in couples and family counseling, helping people identify the emotions driving conflict and disconnection, and rebuild trust and closeness through more secure patterns of relating.

  • CBT is one of the most researched and widely used approaches in counseling. It's based on the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected — so by identifying and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns, clients can change how they feel and respond to life's challenges. It's commonly used for anxiety, depression, and negative thinking patterns.

  • Short-term or brief therapy is a focused, goal-oriented approach designed to address specific concerns in a limited number of sessions, rather than open-ended, long-term treatment. It emphasizes practical tools and concrete progress, making it a good fit for clients working through a specific issue or season of life rather than seeking extended, ongoing therapy.

  • Family Systems Therapy views a person's struggles not in isolation, but as part of the larger web of relationships they belong to. Rather than treating one family member as "the problem," this approach looks at the patterns, roles, and dynamics within the whole family unit, helping everyone understand how they influence one another and how to create healthier ways of relating together.

Jared Calaway, LPC-S

For more than 20 years, I've walked alongside individuals, couples, and families through life's hardest seasons. My calling began in Indonesia just after college, where I saw firsthand how aid workers and volunteers who poured themselves out for others were often running on empty themselves. That experience led me to earn my Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling from Southwestern Theological Seminary in 2007, after completing my undergraduate degree in Psychology at Howard Payne University in 2001. Since then, I've served in hospitals, community mental health centers, and private practice — including two and a half years overseas with my family, serving refugees displaced by civil war.

My life verse, Colossians 4:6, shapes how I approach every session: "Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." I believe counseling works best when grace and truth are held together — prayer, Scripture, and clinical care woven into one. As an LPC-S, I offer individual, couples, and family counseling, and it would be an honor to walk alongside you toward healing, wholeness, and restoration.

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Not sure where to start? We’re here to help. Every person’s journey is different. Let’s figure out the path towards healing meant for you.