Professional Counselor

Juan Adriatico — Professional Counselor & Chaplain Bio

Juan Adriatico is a faith-driven counselor, chaplain, veteran leader, and servant-hearted advisor with over 15 years of active-duty military service in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. As a former military chaplain and combat veteran, Juan has dedicated his life to serving God, strengthening families, supporting service members, and walking with people through some of life’s most difficult seasons.

Juan has served in high-pressure environments, including two Iraq combat tours, where he provided spiritual care, crisis support, counseling, and leadership to soldiers, families, and military units. His experience includes trauma care, grief support, suicide intervention, marriage and family retreats, PTSD training, memorial services, combat stress support, and vocational transition counseling for service members moving from military life into civilian life.

With a background in theology, mental health, leadership, and pastoral care, Juan brings a compassionate, direct, and faith-centered approach to counseling. He has counseled individuals through grief, trauma, relationship challenges, spiritual struggles, family conflict, military transition, moral injury, and personal purpose. His calling is to help people find healing, clarity, discipline, hope, and renewed strength through faith, truth, and practical guidance.

As a chaplain, Juan believes counseling is more than advice — it is presence, prayer, wisdom, accountability, and walking alongside others with humility and courage. His mission is to serve God by serving people, helping them rebuild their lives, strengthen their families, and move forward with purpose.

Juan’s counseling and chaplaincy work reflects his core values: faith, integrity, service, sacrifice, leadership, family, and restoration. He is committed to helping others overcome pain, rediscover hope, and live with courage, conviction, and calling.