About Susan
Susan Jacobsen is an LPC with 28 years of experience who focuses on trauma, grief, and related concerns. She combines a mindfulness-informed way of working with art-based methods to help people put feelings into words and images. Her approach aims to make intense emotions easier to notice and name during hard moments.
She often helps people coping with anxiety, stress, and depression alongside grief after miscarriage, infant loss, or fertility struggles.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, anger, and burnout. Her background includes long experience across mental health settings and work with people facing post-traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Sessions may include talking, simple mindfulness exercises, and creating or reflecting on visual material.
Using art materials can speed access to strong feelings when words are hard to find. The work moves at a pace the person can manage and focuses on practical ways to feel steadier day to day. Susan draws on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to understand recurring patterns and personal meaning.
She pairs those perspectives with a client-centered stance that follows what each person brings to the room. This mix supports both immediate coping and longer term reflection. Outside of clinical work she spends time in nature with family, hiking, boating, camping, paddleboarding, and playing volleyball.
She practices yoga and brings that same attention to breath and body into sessions when useful.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Mindfulness Therapy helps people learn simple breath and attention practices to reduce overwhelm and notice emotions without getting swept away. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and grief when racing thoughts make it hard to rest.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the person’s priorities. This approach aims to create a space where someone can speak freely and explore what matters most to them, including relationship and life-purpose concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to match methods to their goals, comfort level, and the issue at hand. That may mean trying mindfulness tools, using art-based techniques, or drawing on psychodynamic ideas to notice recurring patterns.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions or suit those who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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