Lamerial Jacobson
Lamerial practices an integrative, relational approach in counseling while operating from a holistic (mind-body-spirit) framework. She joins clients in their unique journey and encourages the use of effective mind-body practices (e.g., tapping and bilateral stimulation), communication
Lamerial joins clients in their unique journey and encourages the use of effective mind-body practices, communication tools, and reflective skills that embody honesty, responsibility, and intentionality.
tools, and reflective skills that embody honesty, responsibility, and intentionality. While building a genuine therapeutic relationship, she both encourages and challenges clients to create more authenticity and alignment in their own lives. She’s insightful and intentional while bringing experience, strength, and hope to the counseling process.
First session
During your first meeting, Lamerial collaborates with you while co-creating goals, both short term and long term, that improve overall investments (i.e., time and energy spent) in health. She assists clients in taking inventory of their emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and physical investments to generate an action plan for rebalancing these relationships and resources.
Strengths
Lamerial emphasizes a holistic approach to mind-body-spirit health. She values the use of creativity, humor, and respect in the process. Her experiences in counselor education, supervision, and research influence her collaborative coaching style when empowering clients to trust their own insight and resources when implementing change.
Ideal clients
Lamerial supports clients who want to address the following: relationships and attachments; life transitions, grief, and loss; marginalization, intersectionality, and systemic stress; ethics, spirituality, and sexuality; medicinal herbs, plants, and nutrition; work-life balance; and physical and emotional health. Originally trained in systems theory, she uses a social justice and advocacy lens. Lamerial models and implements skills that assist clients in developing healthier relationships with self and their various attachments in life.
Treatment methods
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Lamerial assists clients when evaluating past and present relationships (i.e., attachments) that impact their overall health and quality of life. Throughout the process, she empowers clients in trusting their intuition, using their voice, and balancing their power. She supports client growth by using a strength-based, person-centered approach to making change; demonstrating acceptance, intention, and understanding along the way.
Location
Virtual sessions