Kyle Jackson (he/him)

As a therapist, I believe the most important thing to recognize is that anxiety can many different forms. Anxiety can be social anxiety, where we fear the judgment of others and/or feel insecure around them. It can also take the form of stress, feeling overwhelmed and uneasy, even when trying to relax. It can even be debilitating and seemingly all-encompassing, making even daily tasks feel like insurmountable challenges. My approach is to be targeted and precise when it comes to anxiety.

Depression is probably the single most common mental health concern I find myself treating, as it impacts almost all of us at some point in our lives. To try and sum up my typical thinking on depression, I would say that I consider treatment from two primary pathways -- What one can change and one cannot. Therefore, I help folks learn how to make changes to bring them relief and improve their mood, while simultaneously helping clients work towards acceptance for those things that are immutable.

Depression is probably the single most common mental health concern I find myself treating, as it impacts almost all of us at some point in our lives. To try and sum up my typical thinking on depression, I would say that I consider treatment from two primary pathways -- What one can change and one cannot. Therefore, I help folks learn how to make changes to bring them relief and improve their mood, while simultaneously helping clients work towards acceptance for those things that are immutable.

Depression is probably the single most common mental health concern I find myself treating, as it impacts almost all of us at some point in our lives. To try and sum up my typical thinking on depression, I would say that I consider treatment from two primary pathways -- What one can change and one cannot. Therefore, I help folks learn how to make changes to bring them relief and improve their mood, while simultaneously helping clients work towards acceptance for those things that are immutable.

My passion and experience with helping Veterans and military servicepeople began while I was on a full-time one-year internship at the Phoenix VA. I came to find that I not only enjoyed working with Veterans, but that I also had a talent for connecting with them on a human level, despite not being a Veteran myself. Veterans come from all walks of life, and I make it my mission to meet them where they are at, whether that means with help transitioning roles out of service or otherwise.

While CBT tends to my first line of treatment for most clients, I will typically implement elements of ACT throughout therapy. CBT is great for helping clients with the things that they can change, but, admittedly, it falls a bit short when it comes to accepting and coping with the unchangeable. This is why I have found great success teaching clients not only mindfulness, including meditation practices, but also utilizing acceptance techniques to aid clients in living their best life.

I was privileged to do my doctoral training in a department that took a very Rogerian, person-centered approach to therapy. This was especially crucial for me, as this is the style that naturally resonates with my instincts. Without meaning to sound like a broken record, I feel strongly that therapy has to begin with forming a real human connection. Thus, person-centered therapy is embedded, I would say, into all of the work that I do.

After getting to know and gaining some understanding of my clients, CBT is probably the most common treatment approach I utilize. CBT is both incredibly complex and intuitively simple. In the 500 words I have here, I would describe the simple side of it as teaching people how to change their thinking and behavior, in order to change how they feel. How we do this, however, is important to be tailored to you -- Your style, your background, and your unique goals.