About Glenn
Glenn Jacob-Oviatt is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and mood challenges. He supports adults coping with ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, career shifts, and major life changes. Glenn uses clear, practical steps so conversations feel useful from the first session.
He spent five years working at an adult mental health inpatient facility. There he organized and led groups on anxiety reduction, DBT skills, anger management, mindfulness, communication, and self-expression through art and writing.
Background and approach
That hands-on group work shaped his straightforward, skills-focused style. Glenn uses a person-centered stance in sessions. He combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to address thinking patterns and teach emotion regulation skills.
He also draws on Narrative Therapy to help people rethink and rewrite troubling stories about themselves. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Glenn helps people notice patterns, try small experiments, and build routines that reduce distress.
He pays attention to how habits, relationships, and work affect mood and coping. He is licensed as a clinical social worker in California and holds the LCSW credential. Glenn practices from Oregon and conducts sessions in English.
He aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgement, helping people feel heard and guiding sessions around their goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaches simple experiments and skills to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce overwhelming reactions and improve day-to-day functioning.Finding the best approach is a shared process. Glenn will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. He adapts techniques as sessions progress so goals and tools stay relevant and practical.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Chat and text messaging make it easier to send quick updates, journal entries, or coping plans between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, or busy days while still using CBT, DBT, and person-centered work effectively online.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English