About Susan
Susan Jacobsen is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 28 years of clinical experience. She focuses on trauma, grief, loss, and related concerns such as infertility and perinatal loss. Her style is down-to-earth and practical, with attention to both feelings and everyday coping strategies.
Susan combines mindfulness practice with creative methods drawn from art therapy to help people access emotions more directly. Using art materials can make it easier to name hard feelings and start healing without only relying on words.
Background and approach
She also draws on psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to notice patterns that repeat in relationships and inner life. People come to her with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, anger, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. She also works with those coping with career transitions, compassion fatigue, first responder challenges, and the complex grief that follows miscarriage, infant loss, or fertility struggles.
Susan pays attention to how life events affect daily routines and relationships. Sessions blend focused conversation, mindfulness exercises, and hands-on creative tasks when useful. She aims to create a clear plan with small steps clients can use between meetings.
Progress often includes clearer emotional language, calmer reactions, and more workable routines. Outside of therapy she enjoys being outdoors with family, hiking, boating, camping, paddleboarding, practicing yoga, and playing volleyball. These activities inform her belief in movement, nature, and simple rituals as supports during difficult times.
Approaches that fit trauma, grief, and self-exploration
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means Susan listens closely, follows what matters most to the client, and helps people set their own goals. This approach is helpful for stress, relationship concerns, and making steady changes.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to calm the body and notice thoughts without getting swept away. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions after loss or trauma. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on gently processing painful memories and reducing their ongoing impact on daily life and relationships.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Susan will talk with each person about their needs, history, and goals and suggest methods to try. Sessions can evolve over time if different tools or pacing are needed to fit how someone responds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when travel or work demands change.
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What this counselor 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