Marriage & Family Wellness Center Rochester, MN
David L. Jamison
is a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with individuals and couples.
Counseling is a safe place to grow. From time to time, individuals, couples, and families hurt for many different reasons. Counseling is a safe place to heal hurts, learn to get your needs met, and learn to meet the needs of others.
Marriage Counseling
If you are married and have lost the emotional bond you once shared or are needing help with communication skills, conflict resolution, or dealing with the effects of an extramarital sexual affair, counseling is a critical step toward healing and strengthening the relationship.
Couples Counseling
Just like married couples, non-married couples who cohabitate can lose their emotional bond, need help with communication and conflict, or be scarred by an affair, and counseling can help. Engaged couples also can benefit from pre-marital preparation to get the marriage started in a positive way.
Individual Counseling
It is not uncommon for individuals to have difficulties living life. Some difficulties may be out of their control and some may be from poor choices. Unsafe places may have been in family origin, deep hurt from sexual abuse, unresolved anger from betrayal, and/or broken relationships from the past to name just a few places of hurt. Counseling can provide a safe place to explore and heal these past hurts.
Emotionally Focused
The Emotionally Focused
approach focuses on attachment and bonding. The couple works with the counselor to form a more secure emotional bond, reduce conflict, improve communication, increase trust, and move the relationship in a healthier direction.
Why Christian Counseling?
We integrate Christianity into the practice when clients agree to use Scripture as a resource in their counseling.
“Research shows that, during the course of counseling or psychotherapy, a client's personal values (including those related to faith) are likely to change in the direction of the Mental Healthcare Provider's (MHP)…For this reason we recommend considerable care in selecting MHPs who will at least be very sensitive to and respectful of Christian beliefs and values.”
-Johnson, W. Brad & Johnson, William L. (2023). The Minister's Guide to Psychological Disorders and Treatments. 3rd Ed. Routledge. p. 217
“I don’t preach to them,” Jamison says. “I see the Scripture as a resource of help. I see Christ and Christianity as a resource of help. We need a source outside of ourselves to let loose of selfishness and choose to approach relationships in a healthy way that’s going to honor God.”
"The past several months have been a blessing, thank you so much for your time, support, and uplifting conversations and prayers." ~ D.D (a former individual counselee)
One of the most-used Scriptures in his marriage and couples counseling sessions is 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, which speaks on what love is and what love is not:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true,
of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot
be is moderately important."
C.S. Lewis
Reviews
"Working with David Jamison has been one of the most important choices we have made for our marriage. We had some apprehension about starting marriage counseling, but now know that it was the right choice and we are grateful that we followed through with counseling. We have referred friends and family to David Jamison and would urge anyone considering counseling to choose Mr. Jamison"
-- N & C, Rochester, MN
