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Online therapist

Susan Jacobsen

Compassionate trauma-informed care for families

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
28 years
Licensed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Susan

Susan Jacobsen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 28 years of experience. She centers work around trauma, grief, and loss, and she often brings mindfulness into sessions. Her style is practical and calm, focused on helping parents and families find steady ground during painful life changes.

She draws on client-centered listening so people feel heard and respected. Susan also uses elements of Jungian ideas and psychodynamic ways of thinking to help uncover patterns that keep people stuck.

Background and approach

Trauma-focused techniques are part of her approach when past events need careful processing. Artmaking is a hands-on tool in her work. Using art materials gives a direct way to access and name emotions when words are hard.

Many clients find visual processing shortens the path to feeling and understanding strong reactions. Susan has particular experience with infant loss, miscarriage, fertility struggles, and postpartum depression. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care questions, disaster-related stress, first responder issues, and compassion fatigue.

These areas reflect both professional work and personal familiarity. Outside the office she spends time outdoors with family hiking, boating, camping, and paddleboarding. She practices yoga and plays volleyball.

Those activities influence her belief that recovery is built through steady practices, small steps, and time spent in supportive settings.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Susan combines client-centered care with trauma-focused work to address difficult memories and strong emotions. Client-centered Therapy means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead, making space for each person to set goals and pace. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides structured tools and techniques for processing events that continue to affect daily life, and it is used when past experiences need targeted attention.

Mindfulness Therapy is also woven into sessions to help with stress, anxiety, and overwhelming feelings. Simple mindfulness practices help people notice their reactions and respond more calmly rather than react automatically. Together these approaches give options: talk, structured trauma work, and present-moment skills to manage hard moments.

Susan will collaborate with each person to find the best fit. She checks in about goals, comfort with different methods, and what feels useful. That cooperative process helps shape a plan that matches needs, timing, and preferences rather than relying on one fixed method.

Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase access and flexibility. These formats let people fit sessions around family schedules, rest at home while processing difficult topics, and choose the level of contact that feels safest. Many find the mix of methods makes it easier to stay consistent with care while managing life commitments.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Susan focuses on trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, parenting, and compassion fatigue. She also works with fertility, postpartum concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and disaster-related stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work blends client-centered listening with mindfulness and trauma-focused methods. Sessions often include art-based activities to help express feelings when words are difficult.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 28 years of experience in mental health settings and has focused much of her recent work on trauma, grief, and loss related to fertility and infant loss.
Where is she licensed and what are her credentials?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, credential CO LPC 4035, practicing in Colorado.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the chosen arrangement.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
28 years
Licensed
Colorado
Languages
English

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