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Briana Jacoba offers relief, empowerment, and freedom from anxiety -- faster than therapy, more chill than coaching, and more systematically than meditation can.

A Systematic, Efficient, Effective Alternative, 30x Faster than Therapy or Coaching:

Lasting Relief in 3 Days, Not 6 Months

An astonishingly rational, systematic approach to “getting rid of bad moods” that’s faster than therapy or coaching — perfect for data-driven, critical thinkers who have not found counseling, coaching, self-help, or meditation to be effective: it’s more thorough and faster than therapy and coaching combined.

My approach is systematic (rather than manipulative) and therefore, it’s more technically satisfying, thorough, and long-lasting. It’s even measurable to a degree that I can offer guarantees.

Harm reduction and behavioral change are natural consequences of FIRST experiencing a deep change to your actual, first-hand experience of anguish, hopelessness, or pain itself. You don’t have to quit anything or label moods “bad” to shift out of the inclination to sabotage or self-harm. 

Briana Jacoba offers relief, empowerment, and freedom from anxiety -- faster than therapy, more chill than coaching, and more systematically than meditation can.
Briana Jacoba guarantees empowering relief and freedom from performance anxiety -- faster than therapy, deeper than coaching, and more systematically than psychedelics or meditation can.
Briana Jacoba offers relief, empowerment, and freedom from anxiety -- faster than therapy, more chill than coaching, and more systematically than meditation can.
Briana Jacoba guarantees empowering relief and freedom from performance anxiety -- faster than therapy, deeper than coaching, and more systematically than psychedelics or meditation can.

It's not therapy

I don’t diagnose or treat.
No need to tell me about the past.
I don’t think in terms of wellness vs. illness.

I just help my clients expand their emotional, intellectual, and social “range of movement” — without labeling your behaviors “maladaptive” or your thoughts “negative.”

And I can actually guarantee  measurable results.

It's not coaching, coaxing, or coping

No threat of shame.
No “pain = gain” mind-games.
No extrinsic goals or To Do lists.

“Coping skills” without actual relief cause burnout.
Authenticity isn’t a fake-it-’til-you-make-it, coachable goal.
Unstilted, heartfelt communication can’t be learned through training.

Before new skills can stick, you might actually need to recalibrate yourself to yourself — to who you really are — so you can finally “just be yourself” …like people are always talking about.

Rapid Results
(in 3 days, not 24 weekly sessions!)

It only takes one day to use your technical skills to document the much more exact data that describes your particular flavor of anguish with more fidelity than people tend to do using vague, fluffy “feelings vocabulary.” And doing this can feel weirdly good and neutralize future upsets.

Second day, you literally “ease up” every dimension and transform formerly “bad feelings” beyond recognition, so you directly experience what you’ve been needing all along.

After that, it’s like a psychedelic awakening, without the psychedelics: 9 weeks of light-touch after-care smoothens out your integration in a nominal 10 minutes/day. Starting with a day of rest.

not as sudden as psychedelics

…and more in your control than any drug: after the huge initial relief, the way you experience yourself every day changes on a profound yet subtle level.

Your repertoire of interpretations, responses, and perceived options expands in seemingly unrelated ways…

This effect slowly and steadily gains momentum, and in retrospect, 9 weeks into your integration, the shift is obvious. Clients have said:

“I feel like I have been freed from a heavy burden that I carried for years though I had only limited awareness of it. It’s not so much that I am a different person now, but rather I am the same person without all the issues.”

Step 1

Free call
$ 0

  • I want to hear about your situation.

    You might be afraid you're a burden, scary, or "a bad man," but I promise you: I get how pain and the search for relief motivates many decisions.

    I'm not out to control or try to save you.

    I'm able to just be 'in it' with you with care, and get your point of view from that place. There's room for needing to build trust, too. If you've been burned... I get it.
Free Call

No faith/hope required.
Comprehensive privacy policy applies.

After Step 1, there’s a free follow-up call for Q&A about the option of Step 2.

Step 2

Taste-test &
Detailed DIY Plan
$ 350 payment in installments / sliding scale available

  • This Step starts with a Taste-Test to prove that relief can arrive faster than we're taught or told. If for any reason, working with me is not your cup of tea, after all, you can back out and get your money back then and there.

    The Taste-Test evidences why truly lasting relief takes about 8x more focused time, plus a few weeks of just noticing changes integrate into your life.

    To that end, I will show you around to a vast online resource with all the necessary scripts, recordings, science, and background information. Yours to access, free of charge.

    This Step includes me supporting your independent research and helping you reap the benefits of your own implementation in your day-to-day life.


    On our second of 12 appointments, we collaboratively craft your completely bespoke, Detailed DIY Plan: a realistic route to lasting results that feels doable to you. You can execute your Plan independent of me or any facilitator, and involve anyone you want in your journey.
Fast Relief


No faith/hope required.

This is when we would pick one measurable life-improvement,
and outline how & how quickly you can get there.

You can, of course, stop at Step 2.

You can cheaply opt to go it alone, or involve a buddy/Peer-Support Specialist/etc. for human support and accountability beyond what I offer via my app.

The fastest route to lasting relief is to work directly with me: Step 3.

Step 3

Guaranteed Relief from Emotional Anguish in Days, not Months
(much faster than therapy)
$ 2700 payment in installments / sliding scale available

  • We rejigger your DIY Plan from Step 2 into one you and I do together from start to finish.
  • One of these extremes might appeal, or it could become something in-between:
  • Steady Pace:
  • Frequent 80-minute sessions.

    OR
  • Weekend Intensive:
  • Get it done in 3 days flat!
  • You get nine weeks of hand-holding in either Step 2 or 3 to ensure smooth and thorough integration, warranting my money-back guarantee.
Fast, lasting relief

* I guarantee 100% satisfaction or your money back regarding significant improvement in your life satisfaction based on the specific metric we define together at Step 2.

No faith/hope required.
accepting
new clients

30x faster than therapy? Really?

Here’s the math as to how it’s approximately 30x faster than therapy, and better than even trauma-informed coaching.

First: how fast is my alternative to therapy?

You can do the equivalent of Step 1 for free with most therapists, so let’s not count that. (Beware of the therapist who won’t meet you for 20 minutes for free!)

You could do Step 2+3 in half a week, total: Step 2 on a weekday evening, Step 3 on a 3-day weekend.

The fact that this work is so deep it’ll leave you sipinning for nine weeks, but in a good way, shouldn’t count against its expediency. Right?

Now: How much faster than therapy do you want it to be
when you think about rehashing trauma?

If you are okay with retelling traumatic memories without a 100% satisfaction or your money-back guarantee, certain therapy modalities (EMDR, RRT/ART) can help in a record low number of sessions — a good deal if you’re up for rehashing the original event, plus the total number of hours spent being facilitated is the same or less: I do whole-day sessions.

If you’re not open to retelling stories of bad things happening to you, you’re almost shit out of luck with therapy, groping around for clues of diagnoses based on present-day “symptoms” that can cast you in a light of lacking something the therapist supposedly has: a sense of safety or belonging or peace with who you are.

I’ve benefitted from certain kinds of therapy, myself –but therapy can be inefficient, unpredictable, frustratingly unsystematic, and terribly vulnerable to mood, recent sleep, health (yours or the therapist’s) and luck of the draw re: your therapist. (Beware of the ones who think they can help ‘anyone’ with ‘anything’ but have to call 9-1-1 when shit gets real.)

Self-care can only do so much

If you have issues with self-respect, self-trust, or self-control in the first place, then “self-care” isn’t gonna last… or do the trick.

Even if you do all the things, it just covers band-aids with more band-aids that get torn off in an itchy rage when enough stress reminds one of the perma-pain underneath.

drugs + self-help only *seem* faster than therapy

“Self-help” can be self-harm by another name, because Quality Control is biased: how would you notice it’s time to change tacks unless you overshoot your destination (or drive yourself in the wrong direction) for long enough to notice?

And, philosophically speaking:
How can one ever hope to employ one’s “problematic attitude” (one’s current perspective) and reliably discover the “truer” attitude that’s trying to emerge?

Although that sounds as impossible as doing your own open-heart surgery, my approach does let you do that intricate work yourself and stay conscious with built-in Quality Control, and zero risk of brainwashing.

If you find that anywhere else, please! Let me know!

Coaching isn't faster --than therapy or anything else-- if it doesn't work

Coaching puts a lot on you to do something about your circumstances and affect the world around you — a tall order when you’re down in the dumps, burned out, or critical of everything. Even trauma-informed coaching often sends the message “snap out of it and do something.”

Coaching might be the opposite of therapy in that it focuses on the future, not the past, but it simply can’t address anything half as deeply as what I do. Coaching is, therefore, unnecessarily stressful.

Even if you could fake-it-til-you-make-it, training a new alter-ego to slip into when dating/relating (ick!) would be just as time-consuming as (and much more prone to disaster than) meandering session-by-session therapy.

In Summary: I offer something better than coaching, faster than therapy.

30 times faster than therapy, actually.

Sure, my approach requires a few weeks of interactive, app-supported after-care, but I should hope you’re being kind to yourself for 10 minutes/day, 5 days a week as it is, so that hardly counts.

It helps better, deeper, and faster than therapy or most alternatives to therapy.
And it has a money-back guarantee you’ll get measurable results.

Here's the math for "30 times faster than therapy"

Under half a week of non-therapy with me
vs.
5-15 weekly RRT/EMDR therapy sessions
=
5-15 weeks divided by 0.5 weeks
=
results more than 10x (often 30x) sooner with me, and no trauma-retelling.

Even if a therapist knew my super-fast, story-free modality, insurance policies would make them do it in 55-minute chunks on a weekly cadence, and you’d want to say hello and goodbye each time, so it would take several months to get where I get you in 3 days.

Under half a week of non-therapy with me
vs.
25 weeks of therapy sessions
=
25 weeks divided by 0.5 weeks
=
results more than 50x faster than therapy.

Average of
10x faster than therapy (RRT),
30x faster than therapy (EMDR), and
50x faster than therapy (other)            +
(10+30+50)/3 = 90/3
= 30x faster than therapy.

…but if you want to take it one session at a time, we can do it in 3 weeks of several short sessions a week, or spread them out as few and far between as you like (or need for your budget).

It’s not just faster than therapy.

It’s not therapy!

Don’t believe me?
That’s healthy skepticism!

How ’bout just doing the simplest thing ever: email.

You’ll immediately get my take on why smarts can be so isolating.

Hit ‘Reply’ to ask me anything!

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