About Susan
Susan Jacobsen is a licensed professional counselor with 28 years of experience. She focuses on trauma, grief, and related concerns including infant loss, miscarriage, and fertility challenges. She blends mindfulness and creative work to help people find ways to feel steadier day to day.
Jacobsen uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals and pace central. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that keep old hurts active in current life.
How Susan works
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people manage intense feelings in the moment. Sessions may include visual and art-based activities to access emotion more directly. Using art materials can help a person name and move through feelings when words feel hard.
These methods are intended to make emotional processing more tangible and less overwhelming. Her background includes long experience across mental health settings and a sustained focus on trauma, grief, and fertility-related losses. That mix of experience informs how she tailors support for each person.
She aims to provide steady, practical ways to cope with difficult events and life transitions. Outside of clinical work she spends time outdoors with family hiking, paddleboarding, camping, and boating. She practices yoga and plays volleyball when she can, and she brings that grounded, active perspective into her therapeutic work.
Susan lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's needs and goals and creates a respectful space for them to guide the pace. It helps with stress, relationship worries, grief, and decisions about next steps. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice and tolerate strong feelings without reacting immediately. This can reduce overwhelm around trauma, anxiety, and postpartum or fertility-related distress. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing the effects of traumatic events and reducing the ways past events keep affecting current life.Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. The therapist will talk through options, try different methods, and adjust based on how the client responds. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the person's needs, preferences, and goals over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face connection and visual art activities when helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break at work. Live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing processing, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These flexible formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent during life changes.
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