About Abigail Jones

Intro:

Abigail (she/her) is a neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ Licensed Master Social Worker who believes that everyone deserves the ability to blossom into who they deserve to be without being held back by their past experiences. Abigail strives to create a warm, comfortable, and fun environment within her sessions and encourages you to come as you are. She believes in navigating trauma at your own pace as no one’s healing journey looks the same nor is it a linear process.

“I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.” – Dr. Carl Jung

Education:

Abigail received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with minor focuses on Sociology and Philosophy from Middle Tennessee State University in 2017 and her Master of Science in Social Work from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. She began her career in social work in 2017 and has been a provisionally licensed therapist since May 2023. Her vocational experience in social work includes intake, case management, crisis hotline, inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient treatment prior to beginning her work with Works Counseling Center. She has received training in Brainspotting Phase 1, Polyvagal Theory, Suicide Assessment and Prevention, Exposure and Response Prevention, Prolonged Exposure, and Written Exposure Therapy. She is informed in several other modalities for her eclectic approach including ACT, DBT, CBT, Somatics, IFS, geek therapy, sex therapy, schema therapy, artistic expression, IBCT, IRT, and SFBT.

My Style:

Abigail’s therapeutic style is eclectic through the utilization of evidenced-based, trauma-focused practices alongside somatic, experiential modalities. She utilizes a bottom-up processing model through brainspotting techniques including the inside window, outside window, gazespotting, and the resource model alongside somatic exercises including breathwork, mindfulness, grounding, and movement guided by the Polyvagal Theory, and artistic expression. She utilizes top-down processing modalities such as ACT, DBT, CBT, ERP, PE, and WET as complementary approaches to bottom-up processing. She is informed in integrative modalities including IFS, geek therapy, sex therapy, and schema therapy. Her goal as your clinician is to support you in releasing the built up energy stored in your body after traumatic events (including but not limited to childhood and adulthood abuse/neglect, domestic violence, car accidents, changes in independence related to chronic illness/pain, and medical trauma) and also the built up energy that comes from everyday life stressors related to social, professional, and academic functioning to support restoration and healing to the autonomic nervous system. Her couple’s work is informed by several different modalities, such as CBT, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy, to meet couples where they are within their relationship to improve communication, intimacy, trust, respect, and safety as a unit. She encourages clients to be the captain of their own journey while she focuses on being a guide that supports them along the way.

Hobbies:

Abigail enjoys playing video games, watching anime, reading manga and research, collecting figurines, completing puzzles and Lego sets, and spending time with her friends and family. She also adores her cats, Yuji and Nobara.

Specialties:

Abigail works with clients individually that are 16+ with Trauma/PTSD, Clusters A, B, and C Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anxiety and Depression, and hEDS/HSD. She works with individuals who want support in navigating stress, with self-harm/suicidal ideation, and in managing their chronic illness and/or pain. Her populations of focus also include ADHD/Autism, Couples Therapy, and LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals.