Bern specializes in working with couples in crisis or who are stuck in their evolving relationship. He also works with adults and older adolescents who struggle with anxiety, depression, and unwanted pornography use. His therapeutic influence helps clients utilize internal reflection in empathetic ways. It is his belief that there are really no bad parts in a person. With couples, he also uses proven strategies developed by John and Julie Gottman when counseling couples. Bern is a Licensed Associate Counselor with a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Grand Canyon University (2025). He received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1989. He is the co-owner of a small business and has worked with the community since 2001.
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You are unique. Your challenges are unique. Bern does not believe in a one size fits all approach. His professional and personal life working with family, employees, and business associates have taught him that there are often unique solutions needed for unique individuals and their stories.
Working with Couples
Living with someone can be both rewarding and challenging. With nearly 70 percent of those challenges being perpetual, or unchanging, couples thrive when they learn how to dance to different music. Bern has worked with troubled couples in unique settings for 12 years. Through his experience, he has found that most marriages can not only be salvaged, but can recover to a place where the missing joy in a relationship can be found and recreated.
Working With Adults
Bern works with individuals experiencing dependency, addiction, trauma, loss, loneliness, and anxiety from unexpected experiences and changes in life such as aging, separation, and death. Your value and the value of everyone else on this planet is a treasured gift from God, regardless of circumstances and challenges. Sometimes, we just can’t see that alone and we need help to see it again.
Working With Older Adolescents
What a challenge it is to just be a teenager. Emotional and physical growth and blocks can influence every adolescent like they are riding a heat-seeking missile without a guidance system. Those struggling with family acceptance, relationships, fitting in, pre-occupation with sex and pornography, need help in a time and place where help is not easy to find. Bern utilizes trust and motivational sources to help adolescents find their confidence to do hard things because they want to and they see the value in it.
Additional Areas of Specialty: Infidelity, Sexual Trauma, Pornography and Lust, Low Self-esteem
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Bern’s Goals
“My goal in therapy is really your goal. If you are uncertain what that is, we will work together to help you find it. I believe you should feel real value in coming to therapy and more importantly, experience real change when you leave.”