In-person and online therapy for teens and adults

ALISA JACOBO, LCSW #107560

IN-PERSON SESSIONS IN OAKLAND, CA

SUPPORTING VIRTUAL CLIENTS IN CALIFORNIA

Reconnecting to your body and voice

Alisa Jacobo is a trauma-informed mental health clinician and educator who is passionate about listening, witnessing and supporting individuals, couples, and families take the courageous steps towards healing inner wounds, breaking generational cycles of pain, and restoring inner calm.

  • Are you noticing feeling stuck, or fluctuating between depression and anxiety? Ever wonder why you have low self-esteem? Or maybe, you're noticing patterns of self-sabotage at work, or in relationships?

    For some of us, our bodies are signaling for help…Struggling with gut issues? Fatigue and exhaustion? Body aches or head aches? Are labs coming back fine, but you just don’t feel good?

  • Our mind and body are powerful. For many of us, we can get stuck in high stress, and survival mode. The scary and distressing experiences we have lived can imprint into our mind and body making it difficult to change limiting beliefs, find physical alleviation, and even simply relax.

  • You may notice yourself often isolating or escaping in your mind, tv, or other stories to manage all you’ve been through…it can be scary to let anyone in, but that’s where therapy can come in. With gentle care, going at your pace, and non-judgmental curiosity, we can begin making space and time to listen to your mind and body, while also using techniques and interventions to find what uniquely supports you to provide relief, and healing.

Our stories

We all hold stories that shape who we are and how we interact with the world around us.

I’d like to hear yours.

My name is Alisa Jacobo (she/her/ella), and I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that provides bilingual psychotherapy in English and in Spanish for children (8+), teens, adults, couples, and families.

Whether you’re seeking individual, couples, or family therapy, I’m here to listen and work alongside you towards your goals.

Through training and special interest in trauma-informed interventions, I use a systems and anti-oppressive framework, cognitive behavioral therapies, along with somatic and mindfulness based interventions to support children, teens, couples, and families develop more self-awareness and insight to improve their lives and relationships with others and themselves.

My services

Individual therapy for teens

Individual therapy for adults

Specialties

Trauma

Anxiety

Depression

Latinx/BIPOC mental health

Women’s issues

Queer & gender expansive experiences

What are the benefits of Therapy?

Many people find “talk therapy” to be very helpful but may often struggle with questions like “what should I expect?”, “Am I doing this right?”, or “How do I know if I’m healed?”.

Valid questions, but unfortunately there is no clear cut answer. Different people will have different experiences in therapy and also different goals. Sharing deeply personal issues and processing stressors or experiences is nuanced, takes courage, and can take time. For some, they are satisfied with a few sessions, and for others the issue the initially come in for gets resolved, but they begin to identify deeper wounds, begin uncovering new layers of self-awareness, or have life stressors where they may choose to stay in therapy for longer. But if you commit to the process…

Therapy can help you to:

  • Reduce intensity of traumatic memories and experiences providing relief and regulation to your nervous system 

  • Improve communication and quality of relationships 

  • Learn to identify, name, and express feelings 

  • Rewrite life narratives 

  • Repair and strengthen self-esteem and self-worth and build self-confidence

  • Break intergenerational cycles of pain, and reduce the pain of relational wounds

  • Learn to build trust and compassion for yourself and others 

  • Reflect and process experiences you have been holding all by yourself

  • Learn to focus on present moment and reduce internal voices

  • Build on your inherent strengths and create new visions of what is possible in your life

Get started

Let’s schedule a 15-20 minute consultation call. This is where you can share a little about why you’re seeking therapy, we’ll talk through any questions, and decide if we’re a good fit to work together.