/in.te’graː.lis/
integralis
Latin: containing all the parts necessary to be whole.
HOLISTIC & PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Therapy Integralis offers psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families with John Jacob (he/him), Registered Psychotherapist.
In person in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, and online across Ontario, in English and Arabic.
John Jacob
he/him
MB BCh, MPS, RP
about
Someone who listens for what sits beneath.
For nearly twenty years, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families through some of the hardest passages of 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 a psychoanalytic candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
My commitment is a simple one: to offer a relationship grounded in trust, acceptance, and non-judgment, so that healing and self-understanding have the room they need to emerge.
Sessions offered in English and Arabic.
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: 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 marginalized or unheard, and for anyone who is suffering and looking for somewhere to be met.
There is long and genuine experience alongside Queer, 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.
sessions
Ways to begin
In-person in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Online for clients in Ontario and across Canada.
Individuals
50 minutes
People come to therapy for many reasons. Some arrive with a specific difficulty to work through, others want to understand themselves better and find more meaning in their lives. Sessions offer a confidential space to say what is hard to say elsewhere.
$190
Relationships
Couples, Families, and Polyamorous
50 minutes
We carry the patterns of our early relationships into the ones we live in now, often without noticing. Together we make sense of what repeats between you, what each person needs and expects, and why conflict recurs.
$200
Psychoanalysis
50 minutes
A more intensive form of therapy, often meeting several times a week. The work explores what lies outside our awareness and the patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves and others, so that these can begin to shift in a meaningful way.
Inquire
Every working relationship begins with a first consultation ($190 to $200), a chance to talk and to see how it feels, with no obligation to continue.
contact
Begin with a conversation.
In-person in Toronto
Online across Ontario and Canada
English and Arabic