Jacob Lang, B.Sc (Hons), MA, PhD (Cand.)
CPBAO Candidate
How can we nurture a sense of purposeful living, and what would it mean to restore flow to our experience of the world? Counselling presents a nonjudgmental context to walk side-by-side and cultivate understanding in the face of life's rapid changes. Career, relationships, community, illness, ability—abrupt or not, changes can be difficult. A focused act of conversation is a creative, poetic opportunity. It is poetic insofar as it works toward encountering structures written into the ‘language’ of being who we are. My approach prioritizes the integration of big-picture questions about meaningful living with practical ways to reflect on one’s needs, skills, and vocation. The work follows a psychodynamic or analytic, existential, constructivist model, leveraging the perspective of psychoeducational guidance and evaluation.
Jacob’s Specializations
Anxiety
ADHD
Coping Skills
Career Guidance
Chronic Illness
Cancer
Depression
Chronic Impulsivity
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Grief
Self Esteem
Peer Relationships
Spirituality
Stress
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Elderly Persons Disorders
Trauma & PTSD
Emotional Disturbance
Relationship Issues
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Sessions with Jacob
One is invited into an environment that enables free exploration of experiences, goals, challenges, needs, and values. It is an opportunity to learn to notice patterns, or, in other words, to hear the unconscious speak. Past, present, and future(s), are valid and interconnected topics in the service of growth in understanding, creativity, and agency. Sessions work with the ways we view and organize our worlds, meaningfully including the inner life and imagination, social field or our connections with others, and the realities of being a person. The approach is designed to be a warm space to facilitate gradual change.
Jacob’s Credentials
Registration & Professional Memberships
Candidate in Counselling Psychology in Ontario, College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts of Ontario (CPBAO)
Member, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
Visiting Researcher, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
Ph.D. (Cand.), Interdisciplinary, Saint Paul University
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, McGill University
Bachelor of Science (Honours) with High Distinction, Mental Health Studies (Specialist Co-op), University of Toronto
Education
Coaching Science (Psychodynamic Focus), Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, Affil. Harvard Medical School
Seminars in Depth Psychology, The Eco-Leadership Institute
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute
Clinical Supervision, McGill University
Constructivist Approaches to Grief, Monkland Psychology
Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Training & Certifications
Jacob’s Publications & Presentations
Lang, J., O’Hara, C., Redden, J., & Riedel, M. (2026). The “critical moment window”: Qualitative inquiry into the psychotherapy process and personal therapy experiences of clinicians. In M. Lichtman (Ed.), Understanding qualitative inquiry (pp. 169–186). Nova Science Publishers.
Lang, J., Körner, C., & Körner, A. (2023). Deeper than belief: Intuitive judgment as a context-driven process. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 23(3-4), 420–436.
Stamatopoulou, D., Lang, J., & Cupchik, G. C. (2022). Dialectical relations between culture and religion in self-transcending experiences […]. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 11(1), 82–110.
Lang, J., & Cupchik, G. C. (2021). “The story is my life”: Bridging symbol to self in a novel creative and reflective writing task. Creativity: Theories, Research, Applications, 8(2), 4–19.
Robinson, S., Lang, J., Hernandez, A. M., Cameron, M., Holz, T., & Brannon, B. (2018). Outcomes of dialectical behavior therapy administered by an interdisciplinary team. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 32(4), 512–516.
Publications
Lang, J. (2024, October). Artmaking as a contemplative act: Contexts and synergies in the creative process. International Conference on Art Studies, Milan, Italy.
Lang, J. (2024, September). Creative healing paths. Eurotas 24: Creative Bridges—Embodied Consciousness, Psyche & Soul in Research and Practice, University of Oxford, UK.
Deamond, H. et al. (2024, June). Psychological factors outperform disease characteristics in predicting quality of life in head and neck cancer. Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (CSOHNS) 78th Annual Meeting, Montréal, QC.
Lang, J., & Cupchik, G. C. (2023, November). Questions of space in lived experiences of vocational exploration. Catharsis Conference on Architectural Theory, Art and Research in Social or Interdisciplinary Sciences, Lodz, Poland.
Lang, J., Maniragaba, T., Andersen, N., Dade, N., Kelly, B., Ntizimira, C., Körner, A., & Henry, M. (2022, August). Palliative care for survivors of humanitarian crises: A scoping review. International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) World Congress, Toronto, ON.