About Jacob

I support explorers discover new ways of being

The path wasn’t always clear

At 19, I was building toward conventional success. A future in quantitative finance. Life was moving in a seemingly linear, achievement-shaped direction. Then a health experience stretched me beyond my capacities. My episodic memory faded, my capacity to visualize collapsed, my intellect dropped, my mind and body fatigued, yet allergies, intolerances, and inflammation soared. Opportunities that had felt easy became unreachable. The identity I'd built around competence and achievement became a struggle. The question on my mind became: what matters for our well-being, and how can we effectively get there?

I tried everything I could find with credible evidence behind it, biological, psychological, and contextual. I experimented relentlessly, with curiosity as my backbone. What emerged, slowly, was something I didn't expect: not just recovery, but a deeper understanding of how change actually works. How we suffer. How we get unstuck. What is genuinely worth changing, and what is worth accepting.

Losing my memory, paradoxically, taught me to work in ways that don't rely on it. My approach became contextual, present, and experiential, attuned to what's alive in the room, rather than applied from a textbook. It turns out that is exactly what works.

Since 2013, I have investigated this question deeply, through meditation practice, academic research, and hands-on work with people and groups navigating the openness of life. That investigation has become my life's work.

Why this, why now

My own story isn't unique anymore. The familiar structures people build their lives around, careers, certainties, identities, are shifting faster than ever. Economic disruption. Technological change that outpaces human adaptation. Social pressures that exploit our deepest evolutionary wiring.

The capacities I was forced to develop, meeting uncertainty without collapse, engaging fully without needing everything to be fixed first, finding aliveness inside challenge rather than waiting for it to pass, are exactly the capacities that matter right now. For all of us.

This is what I want to offer: not a formula, but a genuine encounter with what is possible for you.

What working together looks like

Sessions tend to go straight to what matters. There is often a sense of freshness, something seen that hadn't been seen before. Sometimes, a quiet recognition of a pattern that no longer needs to run. Sometimes, unexpected lightness, or laughter, or a well-placed confusion that opens something new.

I draw on whatever is useful: insights from psychology, health science, cognitive science, and contemplative traditions. The art of suggestion. Somatic awareness. Analytical precision. Warmth. The approach is not cookie-cutter, it is designed around you and what your situation is actually asking for.

The research is clear on this: technique matters less than the quality of attention and attunement to the encounter. Context beats content. My commitment is to meet you exactly where you are, help you see something new that genuinely matters, and do that with enjoyment.

One thing I've learned: everything is workable. And often, the challenge that seems most in the way is exactly the door.

What people have said

"Honestly, that single 30 minute call with you changed my life."

On a psycho-physiological condition

"I am shocked that the issue just went away within 3 days."

On IBS

"I feel so motivated and good after the sessions."

On chronic fatigue

"Oh wow, I have never considered that. That is super helpful."

On depression

Background and training

I do not believe credentials guarantee great change work, but context helps, so here it is:

MSc Mathematics & Management

University of Ulm — focus on graph theory and AI, dissertation got published

MAS Health Science

ETH Zurich — research on the gut-brain axis, won the ETHZ prize

MSc Psychological Sciences

UCL — mentalizing in health and disorder, highest dissertation mark of the cohort

15+ years meditation practice

Relentless investigation of what works and what doesn't

Beyond academia, I have worked in financial engineering, innovation management at an AI startup, and the art world. I have also trained extensively across psychology, therapy, and effective change work, and found, consistently, that what moves people most is not technique. It is being met, fully, and discovering something genuinely new, sometimes supported by a little structure.