🌿Counseling in Rapid City, South Dakota
Finding Healing and Purpose in Life
Jacob Folstrom is a local licensed professional counselor helping teens and adults work through low self-worth, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and life’s difficult challenges. He offers a safe, nonjudgmental place to be yourself, share honestly, and begin reconnecting with the freer, more joyful person you were meant to be.
🌿Counseling in Rapid City, SD
Finding Healing and Purpose in Life
Jacob Folstrom is a local licensed professional counselor helping teens and adults work through low self-worth, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and life’s difficult challenges. He offers a safe, nonjudgmental place to be yourself, share honestly, and begin reconnecting with the freer, more joyful person you were meant to be.
A Trusted Place to Begin
Accepting New Clients
Counseling available for ages 13–90.
Insurance Accepted
Multiple major insurance plans accepted.
Rapid City, SD
Located on Mount Rushmore Road.
Teens, Adults & Couples
Individual, marital, parent/teen, and family counseling.
🌿Feeling stuck or overwhelmed?
When life feels heavy, counseling can
help you find a path forward.
Anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, work stress, trauma, and unresolved childhood pain can leave people feeling exhausted, disconnected, or unsure of who they are anymore.
Jacob works with teens and adults who feel lost in life, overwhelmed by responsibilities, or held back by past pain. His counseling style is compassionate, client-centered, trauma-informed, and focused on helping each person feel safe, respected, and understood.
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud
🌿Feeling stuck or overwhelmed?
When life feels heavy,
counseling can help you
find a path forward.
Life’s challenges can leave people feeling exhausted, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward.
Jacob works with adults and teens who feel lost, overwhelmed, or held back by past pain, offering a compassionate, trauma-informed space where clients feel safe, respected, and understood.
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud
Support for people who feel lost, exhausted, or held back by the past.
Many people come to counseling because they know something needs to change, but they are not sure where to begin. Jacob works with teens and adults who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, emotionally drained, or unsure how to restore direction in their lives.
Feeling Lost or Without Purpose
For teens and adults who feel unsure of who they are, what they want, or how to move forward.
Running on Empty
For parents, partners, employees, and caregivers who feel emotionally exhausted, used up, or overwhelmed by life’s demands.
Carrying Childhood Pain
For adults whose personal, social, marital, family, or work life may still be affected by childhood abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Taking the first step can be the beginning of real change.
About Jacobs Approach
A compassionate, client-centered approach to counseling.
Jacob believes people already carry the inner resources needed to live more authentically, joyfully, and with purpose. His role as a counselor is to help clients reconnect with their own wisdom, dignity, and inner strength.
His approach is compassionate, trauma-informed, client-centered, and direct when helpful. Jacob works to create a safe, respectful environment where clients can move at their own pace and feel understood.
He also helps clients recognize old survival patterns that may have helped them through difficult experiences in the past, but may no longer serve them well today.
Safe & Respectful
A place where clients can feel heard without being rushed or judged.
Trauma-Informed
Support for those carrying unresolved pain from the past.
Purpose-Focused
Helping clients reconnect with their innate gifts and purpose.
🌿About Jacobs Approach
A compassionate approach to counseling.
Jacob believes people already carry the inner resources needed to live with more authenticity, joy, and purpose. His role is to help clients reconnect with their own wisdom, dignity, and inner strength.
His approach is compassionate, trauma-informed, client-centered, and direct when helpful. He creates a safe, respectful space where clients can move at their own pace and feel understood.
🌿About Jacobs Approach
A compassionate approach to counseling.
Jacob believes people already carry the inner resources needed to live with more authenticity, joy, and purpose. His role is to help clients reconnect with their own wisdom, dignity, and inner strength.
His approach is compassionate, trauma-informed, client-centered, and direct when helpful. He creates a safe, respectful space where clients can move at their own pace and feel understood.
Safe & Respectful
A place where clients can feel heard without being rushed or judged.
Trauma-Informed
Support for those carrying unresolved pain from the past.
Purpose-Focused
Helping clients reconnect with their innate gifts and purpose.
🌿Service Areas of Care
Counseling for the challenges that bring you here.
Jacob provides counseling for teens, adults, couples, parents, and families facing emotional, relational, and life challenges.
Types of Counseling
- Individual Counseling
- Teen Counseling
- Marital Counseling
- Couples Counseling
- Parent & Teen Counseling
- Grief Counseling
- Employment-Related Counseling
- Anxiety Counseling
- Depression Counseling
- Trauma Counseling
Areas of Focus
Emotional Health
Anxiety, depression, mood concerns, overthinking, shame, fear, and emotional overwhelm.
Trauma & Past Pain
Trauma-related concerns, childhood abuse, neglect, abandonment, and unresolved emotional pain.
Relationships & Family
Relationship struggles, parent and teen conflict, marital concerns, and family stress.
Life, Work & School
Life adjustment issues, school-related problems, workplace stress, burnout, and feeling lost in life.
Ready for the next step?
Currently accepting new clients.
Insurance Accepted
Making Counseling More Accessible
Jacob Folstrom Counseling Services accepts several major insurance plans and self-pay. Coverage can vary by plan, so clients are encouraged to confirm benefits with their insurance provider before scheduling.
Insurance Accepted
- Aetna
- Avera Health Plans
- Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield
- HealthPartners of MN and WI
- Magellan
- MultiPlan
- Optum
- Sanford Health Plan
- UnitedHealthcare / UHC / UBH
- Western Providers