Jake Willard

What I look to provide client's through therapy is the space to explore relational patterns, past experience, and how these might be contributing to their current issues. In this process, I look to help provide a context where clients can better understand themselves and find new ways to engage with their life in the present. While I do not provide any quick fixes or easy solutions, I do come alongside client's to provide them insight, and support towards their desired goals for therapy. I operate from a Relational/Psychodynamic model of therapy, which tends to emphasize the relationship formed between a client and therapist as central to the success of therapy. With this approach, I tend to focus on a client's emotional experience, how their emotion gets expressed, and how their relational dynamics impact how they show up in the world. I primarily work with client's looking to address struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, grief, faith/religious issues, family conflict, and differing life transitions. In the beginning stages of meeting, I work with client's to establish what they are wanting out of therapy, and whether it feels like a good fit for the both of us in working together. After establishing these things, my overall aim in meeting with client's is to create an environment where meaningful change can take place, and client's can become more fully themselves. If you are interested in beginning your own therapy process, please feel free to reach out at either of the contact options listed.