About Jim

Jim Macedone, an open-heart surgery and cancer survivor, is a practicing Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and National Board Certified Counselor in Lehi, Utah. He has been an active American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for 35+ years. Jim graduated from Brigham Young University-Provo in Family Science. He received his masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Magna Cum Laude. He actively serves the Utah Mental Health Counselors Association (UMHCA) as their Executive Director for the past several years. Jim employs a constructivist approach including Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Play Therapy. Jim has experience working with individuals, adolescents, kids and primarily specializes in the mental health treatment of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing population. When Jim is not counseling, he is writing, at home with his wife and kids, watching movies, gardening, or working on his 1:1 scale R2-D2.

Things I enjoy...

Recommended books:

• The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel van der Kolk - Every therapist ought to have one on their shelf. It is practically the same "Bible" of trauma.

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy - Watch the conversations here and notice to which part of you it speaks.

• Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl - Understand existence and how you play into the grand landscape of your experience.

• Unwanted Jay Stringer - Compulsive behaviors can be broken if we just break the elements of them and introduce our subconscious to the conscious.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty...else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Apps:

• Apple Health, Your emotional health is only as important as your physical health

• Plants vs. Zombies 2, ...because, really, those zombies keep trying to get in the back door and I have to defend my house against them daily

• Audible, Work on your emotions, but feed your mind too.

Websites:

• 16 personalities, Use it to understand yourself and others, not to expect others to bend to your personality type. It can be fun!

• Ancestry.com, Life has context and content through our connections in life

Fluent in American Sign Language