Fema Jacob – Registered Social Worker and Trauma Therapist
Fema Jacob is a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) specializing in trauma therapy — including acute trauma, childhood trauma, PTSD, and C-PTSD.
Fema works with both single-incident and complex trauma. This may include experiences such as violence, childhood abuse or neglect, difficult family dynamics, attachment and relational wounds, loss, accidents, betrayal, or other overwhelming experiences. She also works with clients who may not identify with the word “trauma” but recognize its effects in their lives through anxiety, panic, anger, shame, emotional dysregulation, relationship difficulties, self-doubt, or patterns of avoidance and disconnection.
Fema also works with addiction and problematic substance use through a trauma-informed lens — recognizing that substance use and other coping behaviours are often connected to unresolved trauma and emotional pain, and helping clients build healthier ways of coping and regulating emotion.
Before private practice, she spent nearly a decade as a Child Protection Worker with CAS London & Middlesex, working with families navigating trauma, addiction, and crisis. Her therapeutic approach draws from EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), inner child work, parts work, CBT, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).
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RSW, MSW
London, Ontario
Education and Certifications:
Master of Social Work - University of Windsor
Bachelor of Social Work - University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Arts (Social Development Studies) - University of Waterloo
Diploma of General Studies in Social Work - University of Waterloo
Advanced Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Atma Cena
Perinatal Mood Disorders - Components of Care - Postpartum Support International
CBT Certificate - Wilfrid Laurier University
EMDR Certificate - Peace of Mind Winnipeg – Dr. Kelly Penner Hutton
Accelerated Resolutions Therapy - Rosenzweig Center of Rapid Recovery Accelerated Resolutions Therapy
Acceptance Commitment Therapy ACT Certificate - Chris Worfolk, Holbeck College
IFS Foundations Masterclass - Kendhal Heart, PsyD
EMDR + IFS PARTS Workshop - Kendhal Heart, PsyD
EMDR Therapy with Complex Trauma - Jim Knipe, PhD
EMDR Therapy for Survivors of Sexual Abuse - Enhancing Trauma Treatment
Trauma Informed Practice Training Levels 1 & 2 - Trauma Informed Practice Institute
Focusing Basics Levels 1 & 2 (A Somatic Practice)- Ruth Hirsch, The International Focusing Institute
An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy - Wilfrid Laurier University
Emotion-Focused Therapy for General Anxiety Disorder - York University
Chairwork Psychotherapy - Scott Kellog, PHD
Easy Ego State Interventions - Robin Shapiro
Exposure and Response Therapy for OCD - Cognitive Behavior Institute
Certificate in Child Abuse & Neglect - Renison University College, University of Waterloo
Certificate in Teacher/Trainer of Adults - Humber College
Certified Hypnotherapist - London Hypnotherapy Centre
Brainspotting Level 1 - Canadian Prairies Institute for Midbrain Therapies
More about Fema,
Outside the therapy room, Fema performs flamenco with Rosa Flamenca, dances salsa, stays active through strength training and swimming, and enjoys walking with her beloved dog. She also runs a community discussion series and has a lifelong fascination with consciousness and the subconscious mind — the same curiosity that shapes her work with clients.
Building a genuine connection with her clients is central to how Fema works. Fema believes people are more than what has happened to them, and helps clients understand themselves more deeply, heal, and build new ways of relating to themselves and others.