Pro-bono Executive Director Lynn M. Jones, Ph.D. founded Morbrook Institute in 1983.

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Fielding Institute, 1989

Masters in Counseling Psychology, LaVerne University, 1983

Bachelors Degree in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981

Licensure as a California Marriage, Family, Child Counselor (#MFC021739)

Certification in Hypnotherapy

Certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Certification as an Approved Training Supervisor from the American Association of Marriage, Family Therapists

Approved Provider of Continuing Education Units for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Additional training in Gestalt therapy

Internships in each of the following:

Populations for her internships included :

Dr. Jones has been a full-time therapist in private practice since 1983, while also serving as pro bono Executive Director of Morbrook Institute. She specializes in trauma therapy. She is also a speaker, writer, and therapist trainer and supervisor for Marriage Family Therapist interns. To date, she has trained and supervised over 150 interns.

Ventura County Star reporter Marjorie Hernandez wrote of Dr. Jones:

When Lynn Merrill Jones decided to open a women's domestic violence support group in 1983, she had only two clients and an overwhelming desire to make a difference. Twenty years later, Jones' Morbrook Institute, a nonprofit teaching facility for therapists that also provides pro bono and low-cost counseling, helped more than 5,000 women, men and teens last year alone, garnering its founder and executive director recognition as this year's Camarillo Woman of the Year. "It was really phenomenal," said Jones, 56. "It just blows my mind. I didn't mean for this to be as huge as it is. I just wanted to help a few women and now it has expanded. I can't believe how much it's grown." --from "Chamber Names Ten to Receive Top Honors," Marjorie Hernandez, Ventura County Star. 31 January 2004

 

• Worked as director of the children's program at a YMCA. Started an after school program that included transportation.
• Hired by YMCA as a trainer for establishing after school programs across California.
• Worked with abused and criminal adolescents and their caretakers.
• Began low cost women’s support groups for battered, single mothers.
• Expanded low fee counseling services to trauma victims.
• Worked with survivors of physical and/or emotional trauma.
• Worked with adults having difficulty in relationships.
• Worked with troubled and/or abused children of all ages and their parents.
• Assisted in designing a government funded program to assist abused children.
• Served as an interventionist with families referred to protective services and developed programs for needed treatment services. 
• Founded Morbrook Institute.

  Upon learning of the traumatic events of 9/11, Jones immediately offered private sessions and group counseling sessions absolutely free of charge to all, no strings attached.

  “Those who have been traumatized or who are fearful, should not have to work through these issues alone because of money problems,” she said.

  Some of the many others who have been counseled for free or at low cost by Morbrook Institute therapists are:

• Survivors of the Northridge earthquake
• Relatives of victims of the Alaska Airlines crash
• Paramedics, firefighters, police officers, and other public safety workers
  
• Children of divorced parents
• Those in mourning
• Victims of accidents, crimes, school violence, trauma, and tragedies

January 25, 2001 - Received “Ventura County Mental Health Professional of the Year” Award by the Camarillo Health Care District.

March 28, 2001 - Received the nationally recognized "Jefferson Award for Outstanding Community and Public Service" from the American Institute for Public Service, founded by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

March 7, 2004 - Received “Woman of the Year” Award from Camarillo Chamber of Commerce.

At the hands of a quack, the very birth of Lynn Merrill Jones was traumatic. She and her mother nearly died during the long delivery. Baby Lynn was left with a devastating injury that resulted in the lifelong paralysis of her right arm and hand. Lynn spent the first thirteen years of her life in and out of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles for corrective surgeries, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.

She went on to overcome numerous other challenges and traumas throughout her life. These adversities have deepened her compassion for and understanding of clients who are struggling to overcome their own adversities.

Says Jones: "I know what it is to climb up from the bottom, to do it on your own, to have everything taken away, and come out the better for it.  It’s what I call ‘life reconstruction.’” LA Times reporter David Kelly, in his feature story on Jones, elaborated on her challenging formative years by quoting a childhood friend of hers: “She had a new cast every year, but I never saw her as handicapped.  It was a non-issue.  Lynn didn't ever think she was handicapped.  She's a miraculous, wonderful person and she's still cool.”

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