About Jacob
Jacob "Jake" Willard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with four years of clinical experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes. Jake also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, identity issues related to LGBT matters, and challenges like anger, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue.
He takes a person-focused approach that emphasizes the relationship between therapist and client. Sessions aim to give people a steady place to talk and make sense of painful or confusing experiences.
How Jacob works
Jake listens for patterns that connect current struggles to past relationships and life events. Jake draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to understand how early relationships shape current feelings and behavior. He also uses client-centered and existential perspectives to center each person's values, choices, and meaning.
Treatment is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the individual. In practical terms, sessions explore emotions, relationship patterns, and self-understanding. Jake works with people on issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication difficulties, dissociation, and family of origin concerns.
He pays attention to how shame, guilt, impulsivity, or isolation show up in daily life. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Jake aims to make the first steps straightforward. People begin by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet that fits their schedule.
Jacob lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Jacob works with
The areas below are the ones Jacob selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Jacob commonly blends attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how patterns from early relationships affect current emotions and behavior. Attachment-based work looks at how connection and trust influence relationships and helps with intimacy, abandonment, and attachment issues. Psychodynamic work examines recurring patterns, unconscious feelings, and how past experiences shape present problems, which can be useful for depression, grief, and identity questions.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Jake treats this as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions focus on listening, noticing patterns, and trying small changes together so people can see what helps.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or during a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or share thoughts when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats provide flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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