We've lived
this journey.
Returning Stronger was built from personal experience and professional expertise — a father-daughter team who understands the road because we've walked it ourselves.
— Brooklyn Larsen
Jon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience working with adolescents and families in some of life's most challenging seasons. He has served as the director of a residential boarding school for youth facing mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse challenges. He is also a returned missionary, having served in the Germany Düsseldorf Mission — an experience that gave him a deep personal understanding of the mission culture and the unique challenges that come with the transition home.
Throughout his career, Jon has developed deep expertise in helping young people navigate major life transitions — from crisis to stability, from dependence to independence. He understands what it takes for a young person to find their footing, rebuild their confidence, and step into a life they feel proud of. This work is personal to him — as a therapist, as a leader, and as a father.
Brooklyn served as a missionary in Argentina before returning home early due to medical and emotional health challenges. Rather than letting that be the end of her story, she went on to complete a successful service mission in the St. George Utah Mission, where she had the added blessing of serving in the temple visitor center. She is now thriving as a student at BYU. Brooklyn offers peer-to-peer support with the kind of empathy that only lived experience can provide — someone who has been in that same dark place and found her way through to the other side.