Sons of Helaman Clinicians, Interns and Mentors

Groups facilitated or supported by independently licensed therapists, counselors, interns or the equivalent who specialize in sexual self-mastery training.

To see the training groups a clinician or intern facilitates, please go to the Choose Group tab.

Bryton Peterson, Therapist Intern

Bryton is the first graduate of the Sons of Helaman program who has returned to be a clinician leading Sons of Helaman and Men of Moroni YSA groups.

As a teenager, he began learning and living principles of self-mastery and Spiritual Warfare and has been practicing them ever since.

Since his graduation from Sons of Helaman in 2012 Bryton has been teaching these same principles in many capacities with Life Changing Services. He has spent time as a text coach and PWT and was a mentor over the Sons of Mosiah Program prior to his own mission in the Washington Vancouver Mission.

He also facilitated the monthly Sons of Helaman Parent Support Meeting/General Panel and was a co-facilitator of the Fathers Who Fight meetings and podcast for a time. He has also been featured on the Eternal Warrior and Like Dragons Did They Fight podcasts.

Bryton graduated from BYU-I with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and is over halfway through his Masters in Counseling program. Since he graduated from Sons of Helaman in 2012, Bryton has spent over 1,800 hours teaching principles of self-mastery and Spiritual Warfare.

Bryton was born and raised in Northern Utah. He has 4 brothers and 1 sister. He is happily married and has 2 sons.

Bryton grew up in the Boy Scout Program where he earned his Eagle Scout award. At the age of fourteen, he began working at a nearby Cub Scout camp and later a High Adventure Camp. He worked as a camp counselor at the camps every summer for 8 years. He also spent time as the Aquatic Director and Camp Director for the camps.

To learn more about Bryton, visit his blog. fightinglikeadragon.blogspot.com

Contact Bryton:

801-920-7025

bapete3@gmail.com

Cody Hawes, MSW, LCSW

Cody Hawes was born and raised in Hermiston, Oregon where his passions were sports, singing, activities with family, friends and the LDS church.

He worked on the local farms until his graduation from High School and enrolled at Rick’s College in 1999. He attended Ricks for one year and was called to serve a mission in McAllen, Texas where he learned the Spanish language and increased his eagerness to serve people around him.

After serving his mission, he went back to school at the transitioned BYU-Idaho where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Spanish. He was actually named the “Man of The Year” for the BYU-Idaho college of Religion and Social Sciences. BYU-Idaho is where he met his beautiful wife Kristin while they were EFY counselors.

After a few years of living in Layton where Kristin worked as a Special Education teacher and Cody as a youth sex offender counselor they decided to pursue a Masters degree in Social Work at Eastern Washington University. There, he became a mental health/sex offender therapist and worked for the departments of corrections in Washington and Oregon.

Since moving back to Utah, he started working for Life Changing Services and the Sons of Helaman program and has worked as a part-time therapist for LDS family services.

His specialties include Addiction Recovery, Marriage and Family therapy, and Mental Health Recovery.

Cody can be reached at 385-519-6089 or codyhawesllc@gmail.com

Watch a short video interview with Cody about his training techniques and philosophies about young men and Sons of Helaman.

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Greg Dunford, CMHC

Greg Dunford grew up in East Millcreek in Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving an LDS mission in Santiago, Chile, he attended Dixie College. In 1987, he married the love of his life, Julie, who is from Arizona, where they have lived for the majority of their marriage. They have 6 children. His family is the joy of his life!

He completed his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Utah, with a major in Spanish and minor in Psychology, and worked for the LDS Church Seminary and Institute program (CES) for 20 years. He earned his Master’s degree in Counseling at Northern Arizona University and began counseling at LDS Family Services, and then started his private practice in 1998. He found great success using gospel principles to help clients overcome the challenges of:

• addiction: substance abuse, pornography, etc.
• depression
• anxiety
• eating disorders
• marriage and family issues
• suicidal tendencies
• sexual, physical, emotional abuse
• anger issues, etc.

In 2007, Greg took an early retirement from CES to pursue what he felt was a calling to use gospel principles to help people heal their lives in a more specific setting. He didn’t know exactly what form that was to take, but after a season of patient preparation, he and his wife became the “Ma & Pa” of the High Bar Ranch, helping young men prepare for their missions in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona. He has also worked as a program director at a facility for struggling young women, and as a Field Director for the Arivaca Boys Ranch doing everything from Equine therapy and all kinds of outdoor activities, to teaching Arbinger (which essentially teaches a Christ-like way of being). Greg has a gift in connecting with the youth. His ability to communicate, motivate and inspire people are among his greatest strengths. The people he works with know he cares about them.

Greg has traveled extensively and lived abroad in: Europe, North, South and Central America, South Pacific, and study abroad in Puebla, Mexico & in the Middle East. When he was 17 his family lived in a kibbutz in Israel where his father was the director for the BYU study abroad program. He loves playing basketball and tennis, hiking, fishing, horseback riding, and playing with his kids. Spending time with his family is his favorite thing!

Greg is thrilled to be involved with the Son’s of Helaman Program as it is an extremely effective application of gospel principles in healing lives. He gained an initial testimony of the program as his own family started to apply the principles themselves. It proved to be a huge benefit individually and as a family!

Greg and Julie are passionate about teaching the principles that govern peace of mind and healthy relationships. They are both currently serving as missionaries for the church’s Addiction Recovery Program (ARP). Greg leads a Men’s Pornography and Sexual Addiction Group, and Julie leads a Women’s Support Group, helping women through betrayal trauma, and helping them to support their loved ones in recovery, in healthy, and appropriate ways. They love working together, and frequently do firesides and presentations for church auxiliaries.

Get to know Greg:

Listen to his powerful podcast interview on the Like Dragons Did They Fight podcast channel

Or his podcast interview with Mothers Who Know on “Separating Love from Lust”

Phone (call or text): 801-380-6466

Email: 12weekwarrior@gmail.com

Layne Hilton, CMHC

Layne Hilton completed his Bachelor’s degree in psychology through Weber State University and is currently a third year psychology intern from the University of Utah. He will be completing his licensure as a CMHC in the spring of 2019 while working for Life Changing Services.

Layne has extensive work in helping others, his career began as a counselor for juvenile sex offenders at Salt Lake Detention Center, after which he became a firefighter. Over the past 24 years in this capacity, Layne has had the opportunity to serve as a paramedic, police officer/SWAT paramedic, Hazardous Materials Technician and as a Captain. While doing this, Layne also worked concurrently as a school teacher/counselor at a private school in Salt Lake City. Layne has also served as a martial arts instructor, boxing coach and a Muay Thai instructor. Currently Layne’s passion is spending time with his family, and playing bagpipes for the Utah Firefighters Emerald Society.

“I have a strong belief in the importance of Warrior Chemistry and its importance, not just in overcoming addiction, but throughout a person’s life. The services and programs offered through Life Changing Services provide a unique experience in offering self-management and control and provide skills to make you victorious in ANY battle you might face!”

Layne can be reached at: 801-638-HERO (4376)

Maurice Harker, M.Ed

Maurice W. Harker, M. Ed. is the originator of the Sons of Helaman program, a sexual self-mastery training program, started in 2005. Sons of Helaman has helped thousands of young men recover from pornography addiction and other sexual-related issues.

He is the originator of Men of Moroni (men’s equivalent to Sons of Helaman), the WORTH Group (serving women in Betrayal Trauma), and Eternal Warriors Training (Prevention and Self-mastery training).

Maurice is the author of Like Dragons Did They Fight – a synergy of eternal principles and accurate science for personal self-mastery. He is also the author of I’m Not Okay, You’re Not Okay, And That’s Okay, a book on healing and building healthy relationships. He is the author of And the Man Knew His Wife, a book designed to help couples improve the quality of their marital intimacy.

Maurice specializes in providing services with interventions that accurately synchronize effective psychological science with eternal principles. He is most known and sought after for the work he does with individuals and couples who have been traumatized by sexual misbehavior.

Maurice acquired both his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Utah.

For over 17 years (2005-2022), Maurice provided specialized services as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor. The first 7 years were with LDS Family Services and then in 2005, he opened Life Changing Services. He has now shifted his focus to primarily functioning as the Director of Life Changing Services, providing group trainings and workshops in self-mastery and marriage repair, as well as occasionally offering advanced consultations by special request. lifechangingservices.org

Maurice and his wife have been married 30 years and have 2 children.

Reuben Aiton, Certified Life Coach

Reuben Aiton has been working with Life Changing Services since 2015. Reuben is the Director of Mentoring Programs and of Certification Training at Life Changing Services. He was originally a Chemical Engineer with 26 years of experience in industry.

Reuben is a Certified Life Coach, a Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Master Practitioner of Neural Linguistic Programming and of Mental Emotional Release. Reuben is also a Master Teacher of several healing modalities. He has been leading Sons of Helaman and Men of Moroni groups since 2022.

Reuben lives in the Upstate of South Carolina on a rural farm with his wife, Tina. He has three children and three dogs. Reuben enjoys working on his farm, playing the piano, the didgeridoo and other healing instruments and enjoys writing. He is the co-author of Never A Happier Time, Lessons from the War Chapters of Alma on Achieving Greater Self-Mastery.

Schedule a Complimentary Consultation with Reuben HERE

Samuel Filikitonga Brown, MSW, CSW

My name is Samuel F. Brown. I currently live in Saratoga Springs, Utah. I have my master’s degree in social work from the University of Utah and am a licensed social worker.

I have worked with high-risk youth and incarcerated adults most of my adult life after graduate school. I have worked at Decker Lake, Observation and Assessment for DJJS, DCFS caseworker, tracker for a proctor agency, taught Cognitive Restructuring classes with Forensics at VMH, ran groups with high-risk Pacific Islander youth, Probation Officer and owned a foster care agency from 1999 to 2006 and then sold it to the largest foster care agency in the nation and worked as a Development Counselor with Development Counseling services with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I have a family business that contracts with the Division of Special Persons with Disabilities (DSPD) providing supported living services, employment services, day program services and host homes for people with the disabilities and we have a non-profit 501(3)(c) (Project Mana) who serve Pacific Islander youth and adults with addictions with a special focus on overcoming sexual addictions.

I love working with all individuals that are struggling with pornography addictions to help them prepare for missions or adults to overcome their addiction as they prepare for marriage or individuals that struggle with this addiction while being married. I love being able to use the science of overcoming addictions with gospel principles that we know can change behaviors.

Todd Summerhays, M.ed.

Todd was born and raised in the Salt Lake valley. He enjoys most sports and the outdoors. He served his mission in Ireland where he learned to love people.

He married his high-school sweet-heart Tracie while attending BYU.

He graduated from BYU in Physics and Math. Later, he earned a Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Phoenix.

Todd chose to teach high school physics for the majority of his life! He loved seeing the progress students made in their abilities to understand the world around them through the lens of physics.

He retired from teaching in Granite School District after 30 years and has rejoiced in his discovery of the principles being taught through Life Changing Services.

He is so excited to help valiant warriors learn and obtain skills to reach their potential. He loves to share in their victories and even to learn from their defeats.

He aspires to be like Captain Moroni… “if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.” Alma 48:17

Contact Information

801.808.0817

tsummerhays@msn.com