Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Marriage and Family Therapy, April 2008
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Master of Science, Marriage and Family Therapy, December 2003
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Bachelor of Science, Psychology (Magna cum Laude)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Specialties
Anxiety, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Addictions (Substances and Behavioral), Childhood Behavioral Problems, Troubled Teens, Parenting, Marital Distress, Chronic Illness
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Jacob Christenson is a founding partner of Radix Recovery and helped develop services from the ground up. He has practiced more than 20 years and is an approved supervisor in Iowa. Before moving to Iowa, he worked as a wilderness therapist at Aspen Achievement Academy. While working at Aspen Dr. Christenson served in the National Guard and was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2011 he took a position as an assistant professor at Mount Mercy University and helped the program receive national accreditation. In 2013 he launched Covenant Solutions and in 2018 left teaching to manage Covenant fulltime. He has published over 15 peer reviewed journal articles, two magazine articles, and one book. He served on the editorial board for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Contemporary Family Therapy and was the president of the Iowa Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
