Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Wilcox.
Hi Jason, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Jason and I are both mental health therapists and the hosts of the Spaghetti Wall podcast, where we talk about interpersonal relationships, the ups and downs of being in a partnership and ways to cope. 7 years ago, we met and fell in love. We both dreamed of owning and running our own practice one day. So after getting married, working for a few years, we began putting a plan together on how to exit the jobs we had at the time and began building our practice on the side. Once we had both built up enough clientele and saved enough money, we left our jobs and started Avid Counseling Services. Since then, we have hired 5 more therapists and have been having a lot of fun running the business together.
We have been married for 7 years and raising 4 beautiful humans (ages 5, 16, 18 and 20). If you want to know how it feel like being married to a therapist, ask us!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
We both decided to make the leap into opening our own clinic because we wanted more freedom in our schedule and more decision making power on how we wanted to engage with the people we came to care for professionally. It was a hard leap because of all the benefits that came with working for a bigger hospital and organization, but it’s been 3 years and we have only grown and not had one regret. Overall, it’s been a smooth road and we have been blessed with a great team of therapists and the support that comes from creating a supportive tele-health community.
The Spaghetti Wall podcast grew from both our desire to provide some awareness to difficult topics that we as therapist encounter and wanted a space to candidly talk about.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
We provide online telehealth therapy services across Oregon. We treat individuals wanting tools and change in their life around stress-management, mood issues, nervous system regulation, panic attacks, grief, and life transitions, marital issues, and complex post-trauma stress disorder.
We offer a variety of modalities with the diverse group of clinicians at Avid like EMDR therapy, CBT, Mindfulness-Stress Reduction, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance Commitment Therapy and other modalities like Somatic Experiencing (SEI) . Our shared theoretical orientation would be humanistic, psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive behavioral, attachment based and trauma-informed.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
Our friends, family and colleagues deserve credit in how they have been our cheerleaders and supporters from day one. When we said we wanted to open up our clinic, we only had words of encouragement and confidence in our ability to be successful. The same goes for our podcast. I think it important to surround ourselves with people who love us and believe in us. Jason and I have been blessed with both.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.avidcounseling.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaghettiwallpodcast/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avidcounseling/
- Youtube: https://music.youtube.com/podcast/OTGJm4I-kA8
- Other: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spaghetti-wall/id1826648875
