In Person & Telehealth Counseling Vermont

Understanding One To One Counseling

A Steady Place to Pause, Reflect, and Find Your Way Forward

Individual counseling at Other Shore Counseling LLC offers a confidential, welcoming space to talk openly about what’s weighing on you—your thoughts, feelings, relationships, identity, and the changes you’re hoping to make. This is therapy that meets you where you are, whether you feel ready to dive in or are still standing at the edge, looking across the water.

Sessions are centered entirely on you—your lived experience, values, culture, and goals. We work at your pace, without pressure or judgment, honoring the many paths people take toward healing. We believe that affirming personal identities, personal challenges, and personal strengths and maintaining respect for the full diversity of cultural backgrounds, Other Shore is mindful and continually learning about the real financial and life pressures Vermonters face.

We support adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship stress, life transitions, identity exploration, and that hard-to-name feeling of being stuck. Together, we look for patterns, build practical coping tools, and help you move toward steadier ground—one step, one session at a time.

Flexible Counseling That Fits Real Life in Vermont

We offer in-person counseling and secure telehealth therapy to make care as accessible as possible.

In-person sessions provide a calm, grounded space—often helpful for deeper reflection and connection.
Telehealth counseling allows you to meet from home or another private space, reducing travel time, weather stress, and scheduling barriers while still receiving high-quality, one-to-one support.

A Collaborative, Goal-Focused Process

Your first session is a chance to see if we’re a good fit. You’ll share what brings you to counseling, ask questions, and begin identifying goals that matter to you. Ongoing sessions are structured but flexible, guided by what you need week to week.

We draw from evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches and adjust as your needs evolve. Whether your work is short-term and focused or longer-term and exploratory, your voice stays at the center. Therapy here isn’t about being “fixed”—it’s about building skills, insight, and trust in yourself as you make your way toward the other shore.

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Therapy Approaches Applied at Other Shore (In Plain-Language)

How To Take The First Step Toward Support

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps you notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that affect emotions and behavior.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Builds awareness of thoughts, emotions, and body sensations to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.
Trauma-Informed Care: Centers safety, choice, and empowerment while recognizing how past trauma can shape present experiences.
Relational / Attachment-Informed Work: Explores how relationships and early experiences shape current connections.
Narrative and “Game-Theory Informed” Therapeutic Techniques: Uses structured activities, play, and metaphors to build insight, engagement, and problem-solving skills in a collaborative, approachable way.
Brief Solution-Focused Therapy (BSFT): Focuses on what’s already working and helps create small, realistic changes that can lead to meaningful progress in a short period of time.

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If you’re ready to begin, we’re here.
If you’re unsure, overwhelmed, or just testing the waters—that’s okay too.
Sometimes getting to the other shore starts with a conversation.

Locally Owned

This is a human-centered, inclusive, solo clinician practice dedicated to fostering personal wellness and community connection. The office is located in Unit 2157 of 145 Pine Haven Shores Road in an ADA and accommodating and well-behaved dog friendly building off of Route 7/Shelburne Road. Ample free parking. Telehealth options available.

Clinical Counselor

Jacob Cribbs (he/him/his) carries a decade of adjacent human services work experience into clinical practice. He holds a love for small businesses and entrepreneurs, world culture, travel, the outdoors, literature, somatics, spirituality and the arts. He specializes in supporting men and men-aligned individuals, blue-collar and service personnel, couples, young adults, persons seeking to heal from spiritual or religious trauma, or those looking to integrate esoteric experiences. He focuses on self-attunement, anxiety relief, depression support, and relational trauma and currently finishing a social-justice focused Master’s Degree from Antioch University of New England and is rostered with Vermont State as a pre-licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor under the guidance and supervision of Open Gate Mental Health Counseling.

Reliable Approaches & Reliable Results

The approach here is direct, compassionate, and effective. No one person is alike so clinical support is tailored caringly and accordingly. Current frameworks include Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy frameworks. Other current specialties include Gottman Couples Therapy (Certified Level 1), Therapeutic Gaming –including Therapeutic DnD in partnership with Vermont Gaming Academy, and Creative Writing Group Therapy. Future therapeutic frameworks are underway to be added to the list, so check back or reach out. If Other Shore isn’t right for you we can help refer you towards the right fit.

Services @ Other Shore

One-to-One Counseling

Couples Counseling

Therapeutic Gaming & Groups

Therapeutic Travel

Coaching

Services

One to One Counseling (In Person or via Telehealth)