Jayson Brunelle, LPC

Jayson Brunelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut who has provided clinical mental health, addiction, and Christian pastoral counseling in private practice for more than a decade. He approaches care with an emphasis on the whole person - addressing emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions - and draws from a broad repertoire of evidence-informed therapies to tailor treatment to each individual's needs.

With training in philosophy and Christian theology, he brings a reflective, values-oriented perspective to clinical work and often integrates spiritual themes when appropriate and desired by clients. He values the 12-Step model of recovery and incorporates its principles alongside psychotherapeutic techniques, noting the historical and philosophical influences that have shaped those approaches.

His clinical specialties include stress, anxiety, addictions, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, depression, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. He also focuses on co-morbidity, communication problems, drug and alcohol addiction, forgiveness, hoarding, hospice and end-of-life counseling, life purpose, mood disorders, obsessions and compulsions including OCD, panic disorder and panic attacks, personality disorders, phobias, process addictions such as pornography, exercise, and gambling, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Therapeutic methods employed include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy. These approaches are used flexibly to address presenting symptoms, underlying patterns, and personal values in a collaborative manner. Jayson frames his work around the dignity and vocation of each person, attending to both psychological dynamics and the deeper spiritual questions that many clients bring to therapy.