Jacob Katinsky
Jacob Katinsky, LMSW
One of the foundational things you should know about me as a therapist is that I really do believe. I believe in therapy as a practical, adaptable, and fitting way to engage with and work through challenges. I believe in myself as a therapist and my ability to engage with you, and those challenges, to work through them. And I’m confident I will come to believe in you and, more importantly, us, and our ability to do that work together.
I don’t necessarily take the presence of being unbothered as a sign of success and I don’t necessarily take the absence of problems as a measure of how happy and content you are. Challenges are an intrinsic part of life and part of the package to everything we’re trying to do here. Although challenges and issues may inevitably and consistently come up - both in our lives and ourselves - we can also consistently meet and engage with them. That is, in many ways, what I see as the purpose of therapy. We always have some form of control and some say in how we 1) Accept those challenges, 2) Face them, and 3) Work through them towards both a sense of peace and a form of improvement. And, at its best, therapy allows us not only to engage and work through these inevitable challenges, but to continue to find and know ourselves through them.
In our sessions, I hope we can both engage with the current challenges on the surface while also exploring and connecting them to patterns and themes that may consistently show up throughout your life. In that way, my hope is that we not only work through the challenge at hand, but that, in doing so, you find for yourself a core set of guidelines, values, and approaches that you can lean on as you engage with future challenges moving forward. Please know I will take you and everything you say seriously and with great care. I’m truly grateful that I’m able to do this work, and I won’t take it, or you, lightly. I look forward to working together.
Education + Training
University of Maryland
Fordham University, MSW
