Welcome. I am a psychotherapist works with teens, adults and couples. I'm licensed in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With over 30 year experience, I've helped clients with a broad range of issues including trauma, anxiety (OCD, panic), depression and relationships. As a Certified Grief and Loss Educator, helping clients with the loss of a loved one is an area of special interest and expertise. I enjoy helping clients navigate the inevitable losses that come our way-conflicts with friends, divorce, pregnancy related loss, job termination, loss of a home and hard life transitions such as retirement. I work with teens, adults and couples. Most of my sessions are virtual.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Anticipation of your first session, especially if you've never been it therapy, may be anxiety producing. I strive to help you feel at ease as I guide you in telling me about your current challenges. Together we'll explore what brings you in and what your goals are. We are partners in developing a treatment plan that works for you. You will leave our first session feeling understood, more hopeful and with at least one new coping skill in hand.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Most people find me supportive and easy to talk to, thoughtful and insightful, down to earth and direct.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Helping people with the often unacknowledged grief of losing a loved one is a profound and meaningful experience for me as a therapist. Grief is traumatic and transformative. It is brutal. There is no 'cure' for grief as it is not an illness. There is no timeline or formula. You tell yourself that time will heal the wound, yet everyday opens it anew. I believe a griever has six basic needs: to have someone be with you in your pain. To have your pain 'witnessed' and acknowledged as important; to express your feeling; to release the burden of guilt; to be free of old wounds; to integrate the pain and the love and to find meaning in life after loss.
About Cathy Jacobsen
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Serves ages
Accepts cash
Appointments
VirtualMy treatment methods
Psychodynamic
Examines and reflects how the roots of emotional problems lie in your past and the relationship between the therapist and the patient provides a window into how how the problems play out.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Focuses on how distorted thoughts influence our feeling and behavior. After identifying patterns such as the tendency make assumptions or to personalize, the therapist’s job is to challenge those distorted thought, identify when they are at play and help the client develop alternate self talk.
Grief Therapy
At sometime we all experience grief over the loss of a loved one. Grief is often traumatic and transformative. The needs of the griever include pain witnessed, freedom from guilt, healing old wounds, integrating and finding meaning.