Welcome. My name is Nicholas Jacobs and I am a psychotherapist and educator based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My personal, professional, and educational journeys reflect an ever-deepening humility and curiosity towards the human condition that I am able to express through my work with clients, my research, and my way of moving in and through the world.

At present, I work with a broad range of clients in my psychotherapy practice located in central Edmonton. I have found that although people enter into therapy for a variety of reasons, most often the expression of concern reflects a fundamental discrepancy between the relationship between one’s inner self and their external world. Helping to foster dialogue within and between these formulations of self and world through an authentic and nurturing therapeutic relationship reflects an overall aim of my work as a psychotherapist.

My psychotherapeutic orientation is an extension of my area of research focus (and vice versa) which has engaged with existentialism, phenomenology, depth psychology, curriculum studies, and educational philosophy across various research projects. My doctoral research involved a heuristic inquiry surrounding the living experience of mortality among curriculum graduate students.

I have come to understand that my passion for the human condition is most effectively exercised through the praxis of research, psychotherapy, and my own way of moving in and through the world, acknowledging that we are “Earth in human form” (Doherty, 2017, p. 17). Along with my professional and research interests, I can be found running in Edmonton’s river valley, travelling, spending time in nature with friends, and leaning into the discomforts of life through an ever-developing practice of humility and gratitude.