Jacob A Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Dr. Zimmerman is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides individual psychotherapy to adults. He earned his B.A. degree in psychology at Temple University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology at Washington State University. Dr. Zimmerman completed his pre-doctoral internship at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, followed by a post-doctoral supervised psychological employment experience at a certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC) in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Zimmerman's overarching therapeutic approach as a licensed clinical psychologist is to provide a supportive atmosphere to explore one's concerns, help to make sense of them in a collaborative fashion, and encourage the use of evidence-based skills and strategies to help overcome them. More specifically, he often uses an emotion-focused, broadly CBT-based approach that is designed to target psychological processes thought to underlie multiple mental disorders, as well as a more "integrative psychotherapy" approach for people wanting to address "deeper," and more longstanding, unhelpful life patterns.
Dr. Zimmerman finds it especially rewarding to help people identify and break unhelpful, emotion-driven responses that may be getting in the way of them moving toward and living the type of life they want to live (e.g., symptoms and issues associated with panic disorder, OCD, specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, as well as more longstanding unhelpful interpersonal and behavioral patterns, like in terms of partner selection and relational cycles).
(Accepting new clients)