About Jacob
Jacob Germany helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and big life changes. He also supports people facing ADHD challenges, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and depression. Jacob is a licensed professional counselor with 14 years of therapy experience in Oklahoma and more than 17 years in mental health work.
Jacob uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. He focuses on what works and helps people learn tools they can use right away.
Background and approach
He centers conversations on each person's goals and day-to-day struggles rather than labels or diagnoses. His work pays attention to how systems and institutions shape stress and wellbeing. That perspective informs conversations about identity, work, and social pressures.
Jacob is queer-friendly and attentive to multicultural concerns and gender-related issues. He draws on client-centered techniques to build a safe space for people to talk. He also uses somatic methods to help people notice how their body responds to stress.
For people with traumatic memories, he incorporates EMDR strategies when appropriate to address distressing experiences. Jacob has helped people with parenting stress, career questions, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. He also has additional experience with autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic pain or illness, dissociation, hoarding, and immigration-related stress.
Sessions are focused on practical steps, coping skills, and pacing change so it fits into daily life.
Approaches that translate to online work
Jacob practices client-centered therapy, which puts the person's goals and experiences first and focuses on clear, usable steps for daily life. This approach helps people shape sessions around what matters most to them and can be effective in conversation, video, or messaging formats.He also uses somatic therapy to help people notice and work with bodily responses to stress and trauma. Somatic techniques in online sessions can involve breathing exercises, grounding cues, and simple movement prompts that people can do between sessions to reduce tension.
For traumatic memories, Jacob incorporates EMDR elements to reduce distress tied to specific events. In an online setting EMDR-informed work can include guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation adapted for video or phone sessions to support processing difficult memories.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and comfort with different methods, and then try approaches that fit those preferences. That partnership helps tailor the work and make changes more manageable.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and other routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Oregon
- Languages
- English