Tjrimel Jones spent over a decade in law enforcement before he ever sat across from a client in a counseling room. That wasn't a career detour , it was the education that changed everything. He saw, up close and repeatedly, what happens when people fall through the cracks of systems that were supposed to help them. He watched youth cycle through the same doors. He watched adults carry weight that no one had ever asked them to name. And at some point, he stopped wanting to respond to the aftermath and started wanting to be part of what happens before it gets there.

He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate (LCSWA) and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist Associate (LCASA) at Healing Pathways Foundation, where he works with both adults and youth navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and the quiet, persistent feeling of being stuck at a crossroads with no clear direction. He specializes in working with adults and juveniles who have been impacted by the criminal justice system — people he understands not from a textbook, but from having stood on the other side of that system and seeing what it does to a person when no one meets them with anything other than a charge number. His approach is collaborative, down-to-earth, and built on a simple premise: he is not here to fix anyone. He is here to walk alongside someone while they figure out what they already have the strength to do.

What Trijmel brings into the room is different from what most clinicians carry. He brings the instinct of someone who has worked in high-pressure, real-world situations where reading people accurately wasn't academic — it was necessary. That background gives him a practical, no-nonsense quality that clients — especially young people caught up in the system and adults trying to rebuild after it — respond to. He doesn't perform empathy. He just has it, and it shows up in how directly and honestly he engages.

He is at Healing Pathways because the work here matches what he learned on the other side: that people don't need someone to tell them what's wrong with them. They need someone who sees what's right in them and helps them build from there.