/in.te’graː.lis/
integralis
Latin: containing all the parts necessary to be whole.
HOLISTIC & PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Individual, couple and family therapy with John Jacob, Registered Psychotherapist. Inclusive relational work that makes room for the whole of a person.
- Toronto & the GTA, in person
- Online across Ontario
John Jacob
he/him
MB BCh, MPS, RP
about
Someone who listens for what sits beneath.
For nearly fifteen years, I has sat with individuals, couples, and families through some of the hardest passages of a life. A medical graduate, I turned toward psychotherapy for the depth of relationship it makes possible, and later completed a Master of Pastoral Studies in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy.
I am now training as a psychoanalytic candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
My commitment is a simple one: to offer a relationship grounded in trust, acceptance, and the absence of judgement, so that healing and self-understanding have the room they need to happen.
MB BCh, Cairo University – MPS in Spiritual Care & Psychotherapy, University of Toronto
Psychoanalytic candidate, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Registered Psychotherapist, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
the approach
Holistic in reach, and analytic in depth.
Sessions attend to the whole of a person, mind, body, and spirit together. Beneath that, the work is psychoanalytic: a client listening for the feelings, memories, and patterns that shape a life from underneath, often long before we have words for them.
It is unhurried, relational work. Nothing is rushed, and nothing is reduced to a symptom to be managed. Over time, understanding takes the place of reaction, and what once felt fixed begins to soften.
At the centre of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao tzu
a place to be received
You are welcome here, exactly as you are.
Many people arrive carrying something they have had to explain, defend, or hold quietly for a long time. Here there is no need to do any of that. This is a space held with particular care for those who have been marginalised or unheard, and for anyone who is suffering and looking for somewhere to be met.
There is long and genuine experience alongside LGBTQIA2S+, Two-Spirit, Indigenous, BIPOC, and HIV/AIDS communities. The approach is anti-oppressive and anti-colonial in method. In practice that means the effects of power, racism, and colonial history are taken seriously as part of the work, and your own history is understood as part of you, never something to leave at the door.
Affirming by default
Your identity, your relationships, and your language are respected as given. Nothing about who you are needs defending in this room.
Anti-oppressive & anti-colonial
Race, gender, sexuality, class, and the legacies of colonial history are held as part of the work, not treated as beside the point.
Grounded in this land
Informed by Indigenous ways of healing, and offered with respect for the land and the people who have long cared for it.
sessions
Ways to begin
Sessions in person in Toronto and the GTA, or online across Ontario.
Individual
50 minutes
One-to-one, depth-oriented therapy for anxiety, low mood, grief, identity, and the things that keep returning.
$175
Couple
75 minutes
For two people wanting to understand the pattern between them, and to meet each other differently.
$225
Family
75 minutes
Working with the whole of a family, so that no single person has to carry the difficulty alone.
$225
Every working relationship begins with a first consultation, a chance to talk and to see how it feels, with no obligation to continue.
contact
When you are ready, there is a place to begin.
Reach out to arrange a consultation. There is no pressure and no obligation, only a conversation, and someone ready to listen.
phone
visit
For face-to-face sessions: Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, ON M4P 1G8