Dr. Jacobs is a licensed clinical psychologist who values the opportunity to connect deeply with other humans and help with their journey of healing and feeling most authentically themselves. Her passion and experience lie in working with individuals, couples, and groups with clients from diverse ethnicities, races, nationalities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. For the past 15 years, her clinical experience has ranged from private practices and college counseling centers to an outpatient clinic on the Facebook/Meta campus and a state hospital. Dr. Jacobs brings warmth, acceptance, trust, and empathy into her work.
Dr. Jacobs believes that in our early life or in times of great difficulty or trauma we do what is necessary to survive, and while these tactics were once essential for us to cope they can come to no longer serve us. She helps clients uncover how these tactics they once needed to employ may now be blocking their full aliveness, connection to their emotional experience, and ability to form nourishing and sustained relationships with others. Dr. Jacobs accompanies clients in unpacking beliefs about themselves they may have internalized and helps them learn to relate to their thoughts differently. She supports clients in processing emotions they may never have previously felt safe enough to explore, which allows for the discovery of more nourishing ways of relating to themselves and others.
Dr. Jacobs has a strong passion for couples therapy and has developed a niche in working with not only monogamous couples but also the unique challenges that ENM/polyamorous couples face. She has advanced training in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, which guides her couples therapy work.
And finally, the love of Dr. Jacobs’s career is facilitating Interpersonal Process therapy groups. She believes strongly that group therapy is one of the most powerful modalities that exist in helping patients transform their lives. Dr. Jacobs is dedicated to lifelong learning as a group leader, and she receives mentorship from a Modern Analytic Group Therapy lens.
Dr. Jacobs works from a framework of acknowledging and exploring the impact of systemic oppression, racism, and trans and homophobia on the mental health of marginalized folks, particularly POC and queer communities. Acknowledging these oppressive systems and their impact infuses all the work she does.
Above all, Dr. Jacobs is collaborative, warm, and curious. She can’t wait to connect with you!
