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Become a Sons of Helaman Clinician. Click here to download an application.
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Founder and Director of the Sons of Helaman program. He is the third of the nine sons of Ferrin and Wanda Harker. After having been raised primarily in South East Idaho, his family moved to Farmington, Utah, where he graduated from high school at Davis High in 1987. In high school, he excelled academically, athletically and musically. He served an LDS mission to Detroit, Michigan. He completed his Bachelor's program at the University of Utah majoring in Psychology and minoring in Mathematics. He married his wife, Nanette, shortly after graduation. At that time he became the adoptive father of his then 3 year old son, Nikolas, who had been born to his wife in a previous marriage. Maurice spent three years working at Decker Lake Youth Center, Salt Lake City's maximum security facility for teen-agers. He went on to work for the State of Utah as an Independent Living Specialist helping youth who had been in foster care to transition into adult living. Maurice teamed up with his wife to run a group home for girls with Utah Youth Village for a year, followed by a few years working in treatment foster care. As he was finishing his Professional Counseling Master's Degree program at the University of Utah, he took an internship counseling position at Davis Counseling Center in Farmington, Utah. Upon graduation he also started working as a counselor at LDS Family Services in Farmington, Utah. His daughter, Syrena, was adopted during graduate school. In May of 2005, Maurice opened the private counseling agency Life Changing Services, while still working part time at LDS Family Services, primarily as the Pre-Mission Evaluation Specialist for northern Utah. In September of 2005, Sons of Helaman was created due to the influx of young men struggling with sexual addiction issues. The development and expansion of this program has been a major focus since then. In his ongoing private practice at Life Changing Services, Maurice specializes in marriage therapy (especially if sexual misbehaviors are part of the problem). He trains adult men to overcome sexual addictions. He works to help heal the wives of sexual addicts. He works with individuals fighting anxiety and depression issues. He runs another program called The W-O-R-T-H Group: Women of Rebirth, Therapeutic Healing: designed to help women work through difficult issues relating to any form of abuse in their marriages. He still sees clients for various issues once a week at LDS Family Services in Centerville, Utah. If you would like an individual or marital therapy session with Maurice, contactJudy @ 801-860-3146. |
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Jeff Gregson graduated from the University of Utah with a BS in Sociology, minor in Psychology and a Certificate in Criminology. He then later graduated from the University of Phoenix in 2001 with a Masters degree in Counseling. Jeff is currently a member of the American Psychological Association, certified in the Teaching-Family model (parenting model used by many youth programs) and trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (method of therapy that promotes rapid change for many issues). He has also been trained to teach and run Aggression Replacement Training, a researched method for anger management. Jeff has mainly worked with children, families and adolescents to help resolve issues related to oppositional behaviors, ADHD, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, sexual victims, perpetration and anger control. Jeff's career began 10 years ago at Youth Village, working as a caseworker and later with the Families First program, an intensive in-home preservation service. While working as a Families First Specialist, he worked as an out-patient child therapist at Weber Human Services, working with traumatized children. Jeff opened his private practice in the summer of 2004 and has enjoyed working with adult and child clients alike. The focus of his practice has been helping adults and adolescents with overcoming depression and anxiety. His experience and training can help you and your family make the changes you desire. Jeff's Website: www.jeffgregsontherapy.com |
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Jade received his bachelors degree in psychology and a masters degree in social work from the University of Utah. Since completing graduate school, Jade has worked with adolescents in an intensive outpatient program at the University of Utah, as well as helping adolescent girls in a residential program. Jade also does outpatient work with couples and families. He has worked on the Resilient Youth: Stay Off Substances program/study at the University of Utah, where he also worked as an aftercare coordinator for the program. Jade's specialties include addiction (substance abuse treatment, pornography, gambling, etc.,) mood disorders, grief, loss, and trauma. Additionally, Jade does extensive therapy with couples and families. Awards: University of Utah, School of Social Work, Alumni Association Psi Chi National Honor Society, University of Utah Mortar Board Honor Society. University of Utah Chapter Provo Canyon School Affiliation: Jade's Website: www.jademangus.com |
| Michael (Mike) S. Bouck, LCSW Proud Sons of Helaman Clinician I was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Wyoming and then North Salt Lake, Utah. I graduated from Woods Cross High School and the University of Utah. I have undergraduate degrees in Psychology/Anthropology and a Masters of Social Work degree, also from the University of Utah. I am an adjunct faculty member in the College of Social Work, teaching courses in human behavior and the social environment. I also practice at LDS Family Services, primarily as a missionary specialist in the Layton Missionary Clinic. The main population of clients I currently serve is young adults. I also have extensive experience treating adolescents in the fields of addiction, behavioral and emotional health problems. I have worked in every level of treatment from outpatient counseling to day treatment at Valley Mental Health and Copper Hills Youth Center to residential treatment. I am the proud husband to Julie, who is herself a physical therapist for children a youth with Primary Children's Rehabilitation. We have three beautiful children ages 8, 5, and 2. My interests are in travel and outdoors. Disneyland is a regular stop for us as are the mountains. I enjoy competition including sports and my true passion in life is helping young people succeed. It is my honor to be a part of the Sons of Helaman program and help young men find their way out of debilitating sexual behavior problems. |
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Ryan's website Ryan Calder served a mission in Italy. He is married and has four children. He graduated from Weber State University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in Family Studies. He continued his studies at East Carolina University and received a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2000. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Utah and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He also serves as a board member for the Child and Family Studies Department at Weber State University. Ryan has worked for Blomquist Hale Consulting group, Weber Human Services, LDS Family Services, and has a Private Practice located at 3670 Quincy Avenue, Suite 103 in Ogden. He provides individual, group, family, and couples therapy. He works with adolescents and adults addressing issues related to anxiety, depression, addiction (sexual, substance, Internet, gaming), marital/relationship, affairs, divorce, grief/loss, oppositional, parenting, anger, communication, finances, etc. He also makes presentations to various community and church organizations, addressing a variety of topics. His personal interests include cooking (he teaches classes on Italian cooking), music, games, and spending time with family and friends. If you wish to meet with Ryan for individual, group, family, or couples therapy he can be reached at (801) 643-1943. |
| Chris Hughes, Ph.D. Chris Hughes, Ph.D. earned his undergraduate degree from BYU. He then attended Washington University, in St. Louis, where he received his Masters and then his Doctorate in 1991. Chris had a full time private practice for five years in Arizona before moving with his wife and children to Utah. Here he became the clinical director of the Utah State Developmental Center and the owner of a group home, which developed into several group homes and foster care programs state-wide, serving youth and their families with legal and particularly sexual issues. Dr. Hughes has a variety of expertise with particular specialties in marital work and in sexual addictions for both adults and adolescents, including healing the damaged relationships that result from addiction. LDS Church doctrine and values inform state-of-the-art technical skill and therapeutic understanding in these areas. |
