Chloe Jacobson, LPC, ATR (she/her)
I’m Chloe, I use she/her pronouns and am a white, queer, able bodied, genderqueer art therapist. I’ve lived in Southern Oregon, Washington, California, and Colorado and Portland or the territories of the Clackamas, Kalapuya and Cowlitz tribes, is what has most felt like home. Art has played a huge role in my own survival and my belief in it stems from my own intimate relationship with the creative process.
I help facilitate the healing power of present, experiential, creative expression in my transpersonal art therapy practice. I believe in the ability of art, whatever medium, to better articulate our experiences than language, and radically hold and express each individual’s relative story.
The best way to describe my work is longer-term, psychodynamic, art therapy. Folks who are willing to go deep, engage, challenge themselves, and are open to feedback typically work best with me. I specialize in working with queer and trans adults individually, as well as in group settings (see our groups page for more info). I specialize in depression, anxiety, trauma, C-PTSD, internalized oppression, codependence, recovering perfectionism, gender dysphoria, narcissistic abuse, identity, religious/cult recovery, coming out, life transitions, low self-esteem, relationship issues, existentialism, minority stress, and apocalyptic anxiety.
While utilizing the art process, I bring a somatic and relational approach all while holding each person’s context within a social justice, anti-racist informed container. I bring a strengths-based, trauma-informed, queer-feminist lens to all that I do. I’m in a constant process of decolonizing my practice and see the work I do as a small part of changing the role of therapy in the health of the greater collective, not just the individual. I embrace all forms of sexuality including kink and BDSM. I work with all types of relationship and family structures as well. I deeply believe in fat liberation and health at every size. I also provide and deeply value gender affirming care based on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care.
Art therapy is an expressive form of psychotherapy that isn't just for artists. It's a way to express yourself when words aren't enough and a way to get at the root of something sometimes quicker than stories. It's a way to have a different kind of conversation, a way to talk through metaphors, a way to access the unconscious, a way to externalize your inner experience, a way to be seen, and a way to develop self-confidence through creation.
In my free time, I am usually embroidering while listening to podcasts or experimental music, dancing, gardening, reading, exploring the woods with my pup Bramble, or philosophizing with a loved one.
