Dr. Skytina Felder-Jones, LMHC, LCPC

Dr. Skytina Felder-Jones brings 20 years of professional counseling experience to her practice in Idaho. She holds credentials as an LMHC and an LCPC - LMHC stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor and LCPC stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - reflecting formal training to assess and treat emotional, behavioral, and relational concerns.

Her clinical focus includes work with addictions, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting difficulties, and bipolar disorder. She also attends to related areas such as abandonment and attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, codependency, and caregiving stress. This breadth of experience allows her to address complex, co-occurring concerns with a thoughtful, tailored approach.

Dr. Felder-Jones practices from a collaborative, strengths-based stance. She views each person as the expert on their own story and draws on clients' existing resources to support change. She encourages the courage it takes to pursue a more satisfying life and offers guidance and empowerment as clients take intentional steps toward their goals.

Her work blends evidence-informed techniques with a relational focus, aiming to create practical strategies and deeper understanding so clients can navigate difficult emotions, rebuild connections, and pursue healthier patterns over time.

Integrating therapeutic approaches for online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then choosing steps that align with personal values. For clients facing addictions, mood challenges, or chronic patterns that feel stuck, ACT supports building a valued life even when unwanted internal experiences persist.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and ongoing relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses. It can be especially useful for people working on relationship repair, attachment issues, abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, or the impact of trauma on close bonds.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for managing mood symptoms, relationship-driven thinking, parenting stresses, and triggers related to substance use. Techniques are often concrete and skill-focused, making progress measurable over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Skytina Felder-Jones collaborates with each person to select or blend methods that fit their needs, goals, and personal preferences, adjusting the plan as things evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - so clients can access licensed professionals from different locations, fit sessions into busy schedules, and maintain continuity of care even when travel or life changes make in-person visits difficult.