Co-Founder &
Clinical Therapist

Adam Jelloian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #130755) who earned his MS in Counseling Psychology from California Lutheran University. He has worked across treatment centers, schools, and private practice, and through all of it one conviction has remained constant: people heal most fully when their faith and mental health are held together in the same room.

He works with teens, adults, and couples navigating anxiety, depression, identity, and life transitions, drawing primarily from a family systems framework alongside cognitive-behavioral approaches and EMDR. He brings a particular attentiveness to the patterns people inherit from their families, their communities, and their church cultures — and what it looks like to interrupt those patterns with both clinical skill and biblical truth.

What keeps Adam in this work is the moment a client begins to see themselves the way God sees them. Not the version shaped by failure, family wounds, or years of quietly believing they were worth less than they are, but their true worth and value as image-bearers of God. That shift, when it happens, changes everything. It is what Abide was built to make possible.

Adam attends The Church at Rocky Peak and carries a deep investment in the next generation: the teenagers, young adults, and families navigating a world that asks more of them than any previous generation has faced. He co-founded Abide because he believes the Church is one of the most powerful forces for healing in a community, and that it deserves clinical partners worthy of that calling. Outside the office, he loves the outdoors, spending time with his wife and their daughter, and a good cup of coffee.