Break the Cycle and Experience Freedom Today!
Meet Jonathan Atwell
I’m Jonathan Atwell — a licensed counselor and former pastor of 20 years.
I specialize in helping Christian married couples in the Colleyville and Southlake area break the destructive cycle that’s keeping them stuck, using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy grounded in your faith.
Serving Christian couples in Colleyville, Southlake, Keller, and across North Texas — in person and via telehealth.
I’m Equipped to Help Couples in a Different Way.
For more than two decades, I served as a Lead Pastor. I loved that work — the preaching, the community, the privilege of walking alongside people through the hardest moments of their lives.
But there was one thing that kept me up at night.
Marriages.
I watched committed Christian couples — people who loved God, loved their church, loved each other — slowly come apart. They’d sit across from me in my office, exhausted and disconnected, wondering why their faith wasn’t fixing what was broken between them. I’d pray with them, counsel them, point them to Scripture. And sometimes that was enough.
But often, it wasn’t.
Not because their faith was weak. Not because their marriage was beyond saving. But because what was happening between them — the pattern of conflict and disconnection pulling them apart — required a kind of specialized help I wasn’t yet equipped to provide.
That realization sent me back to school.
I completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and trained extensively in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy — one of the most research-supported approaches to marriage counseling available today. I became a Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate in the state of Texas, supervised toward full licensure.
What I do now is the same thing I’ve always done — help people find their way back to each other — but with tools that go deeper than good advice and a Bible verse.
I work specifically with Christian married couples in the Colleyville and Southlake area who are stuck in The Cycle — the pattern of conflict and disconnection that quietly erodes even the strongest marriages. My pastoral background isn’t a footnote to my clinical work. It’s the foundation of it. I understand the spiritual weight your marriage carries. I understand the language of covenant. And I understand why it matters so much to get this right.
Credentials
MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling — Liberty University
MDiv with Biblical Languages — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate, State of Texas
Supervised by Dr. Bernis Riley, LPC-STrained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT/EFCT)
20+ years Lead Pastor experience
If you’re ready to stop cycling through the same pain, I’d love to talk.