Susan JacobsenLPC

Susan Jacobsen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on trauma, grief, loss, and reproductive challenges including miscarriage, infant loss, fertility struggles, and pregnancy and childbirth-related concerns. Her approach combines talk therapy with creative, art-based methods and mindfulness to help people process strong emotions.

She brings both personal and professional perspective to fertility and perinatal loss, which informs how she listens and responds. Sessions often include art materials to access emotions that can be hard to name. Mindfulness practices are used to help people stay grounded during difficult memories and overwhelming feelings.

Her background includes training in art therapy alongside long experience in general mental health care. That mix supports people who prefer nonverbal ways to work through grief, trauma, and anxiety. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that recur in life and relationships.

Susan helps people cope with stress, depression, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care questions, first responder stress, and recovery after natural or human-caused disasters.

Outside of her practice she spends time outdoors in Colorado with family. She hikes, camps, paddleboards, plays volleyball, and practices yoga, which she says helps sustain her work with people facing hard life events.

How her approaches fit into online care

Susan integrates client-centered work and mindfulness into her approach. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and following what the person needs in the moment, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stressful life changes. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices and breathing exercises to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation, useful for trauma and perinatal loss.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful. That might mean starting with talk-based sessions and adding art exercises or mindfulness practices as trust grows and goals become clearer.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. If art-based exercises are used, she can suggest simple materials to have on hand so creative processing can continue during remote meetings. Work together to shape a plan that fits daily life and therapeutic goals.