- Trauma focused
- Family and parenting
- BACP member
About Jake
Jake Freedman is a counsellor and psychotherapist with seven years of clinical experience. He holds a Master of Science in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a BACP member. Jake writes plainly about how early experiences can affect adult life and offers a steady, reflective approach for people wrestling with relationship and emotional difficulties.
He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression and trauma-related concerns, including addiction and compassion fatigue. He also works with intimacy-related issues, grief, eating difficulties, anger and self-esteem. Additional areas of attention include attachment difficulties, codependency, dissociation and family of origin issues.
Jake draws on psychodynamic therapy to help people notice recurring patterns in how they relate to themselves and others. He pays attention to the feelings and situations that keep those patterns in place. He also uses trauma-focused approaches for people with histories of abuse, post-traumatic stress or dissociative symptoms.
His background includes five years providing long-term psychotherapy for people with addiction and childhood trauma, followed by further training in developmental trauma and dissociation. He has particular interest in depersonalisation and derealisation and keeps up with research and best practice in this area.
Jake works with adults from the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. He aims to make therapy a practical process, helping people recognise repeated patterns and try out different ways of relating that suit their lives.
How psychodynamic and trauma-focused approaches work online
Psychodynamic therapy looks at the repeated patterns in how someone thinks, feels and relates. It involves talking about important relationships, past experiences and current reactions so that recurring themes become clearer. This approach can be helpful when patterns keep causing stress, relationship difficulty or emotional pain.Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and reducing the ways traumatic memories and reactions affect day-to-day life. It pays attention to dissociation, panic symptoms and problems like depersonalisation and derealisation, and supports people who have complex trauma histories.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what fits best with a person's goals, history and preferences. This may mean using psychodynamic ideas alongside trauma-focused techniques rather than a single method.
Session formats are not specified in the supplied biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow work to continue around appointments. It can also permit shorter check-ins or sessions without video when that better suits someone’s needs.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Jake commonly help with?
Jake works with stress, anxiety and depression and helps with trauma and abuse recovery. He also supports people dealing with addiction, intimacy issues, grief and family-related problems.
What is Jake's therapeutic style like?
He uses psychodynamic therapy to look at recurring relationship patterns and trauma-focused therapy for trauma-related symptoms. Sessions emphasise understanding feelings and how past experiences affect current behaviour.
How much clinical experience does Jake have?
He has seven years of experience in mental health and addiction services, including five years providing long-term psychotherapy for people with addiction and childhood trauma.
What professional credentials and location are listed?
Jake holds an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a member of the BACP. He practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for therapy?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with Jake?
He accepts international clients. Check session scheduling and time zones when arranging appointments.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Jake?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.