Michael Jones Biography

Biography

Michael A. Jones, LCSW is a therapist and trainer in San Diego. Michael was licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences December 15, 2004. He has worked since 1999 with traumatized children and their families at Child Welfare Services and in private practice. Michael trains birth, foster, and adoptive parents as well as agency staff, case managers, and supervisors in attachment, developmental, and therapeutic parenting. In addition, he trains child welfare staff throughout the state on issues of attachment, grief, and loss in the placing of children.

Michael's training experience includes; teaching classes in attachment parenting, PTSD in children, parenting sexualized children, and positive parenting for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents through Grossmont College; attachment and bonding to residential care workers through San Diego Community College District; attachment parenting and placement and permanency for child welfare workers through the San Diego State University Academy for Professional Excellence; clinical case management and case planning to social work students as adjunct faculty at San Diego State University School of Social Work; and attachment, developmental, and therapeutic parenting for group home and foster family agency parents and staff. He also provides supervision toward LCSW licensure.

Michael earned his masters degree in social work from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. Before becoming a social worker, Michael was a television reporter, anchor, producer, and editor for 15 years in Illinois, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas.