About Christian
Christian Jacobs is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. He has nine years of professional experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and challenges around self-esteem and career choices.
Background and approach
He talks plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps people can use right away. He uses a tailored approach rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions are shaped around each person's goals, whether that means managing intense emotions, improving sleep, addressing grief, or coping with life changes. He also works with issues such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue.
Christian draws from several therapy approaches to match the work to the person. He uses client-centered methods to build trust and understanding.
He integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to strengthen emotion regulation and distress tolerance. He also brings elements of existential thinking to help people clarify values and purpose.
For relationship-focused concerns he uses the Gottman Method to improve communication and intimacy. The aim is to combine practical tools with reflective conversation.
In sessions he listens first and then offers clear, doable strategies. People can expect straightforward feedback, skill practice, and step-by-step plans.
Christian frames the work as a collaboration where small changes add up over time.
Approaches for online work and practical support
Christian uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening-first space where people can speak about their concerns and feel understood. This approach focuses on the person's own experience and helps build trust and motivation to change.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people break unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors for problems like anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or intense reactions are the focus, offering concrete skills to manage strong feelings.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone can be a simpler check-in, live chat supports shorter exchanges, and messaging works well for ongoing check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to balance therapy with work, caregiving, or travel while still working toward practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English