The Therapist’s Couch:
Introducing our Family Therapists Leroy Jim is a Family Therapist for the Fort Defiance
Regional Clinic. Mr. Jim provides school, home and office based services to traumatized
children and their families. Mr. Jim has collaborated with and provided school-based
services for children at TseHoTso Intermediate Learning Center, Crystal Boarding
School, Wide Ruins Community School, and Ganado Intermediate School. Leroy Jim is
independently licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselors, by the State of Arizona
Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. Mr. Jim obtained his graduate degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. As a licensed professional, Mr. Jim utilizes
a family systems therapy approach to treatment. The family systems practitioner
views the client’s symptoms as an expression of a dysfunction within a family and
not just a symptom of the child’s maladjustment, history, and psychosocial development.
Furthermore, Mr. Jim has come to believe that the processes of learning, behavior,
change, and healing a traumatized child is enhanced by mutual, active participation
of family’s resources, i.e., social workier, psychian, teachers, etc. This profession
has taught Mr. Jim new interests in the process. Some of these interests involve
learning new, innovative treatment methods. Methods that provide effective healing
and promote opportunities for the ongoing personal and social development of children.
Mr. Jim believes in the power of individuals to influence their own destinies as
well as the responsibility of all citizens to advocate for an environment that is
enriching and nourishing for children. By Leroy Jim, MA, LPC Mr. Jim may be contacted
at 928.729.4284 or email at ljim@citlink.net
Navajo Treatment Center for Children and Their Families (formerly NCSAP) and the
Family Violence Prevention Services Act NTCCF/ Clinical/Administration Office
P.O. Box 1967 Window Rock, Arizona 86515 Phone: 928.871.7673 Fax: 928.871.6176 Email:
navajochildrentreatment@ yahoo.com
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