Chloe Jacobson, LPC, ATR (she/her)
I’m Chloe, I use she/her pronouns and am a white, able bodied, genderqueer, queer art therapist, endemic to this mossy part of the world. I’ve lived in Southern Oregon, Washington, California, and Colorado and Portland continues to be what home feels like in the territories of the Clackamas, Kalapuya and Cowlitz tribes. Art has played a huge role in my survival and my belief in it stems from my own intimate relationship with it.
I deeply believe in the healing power of present, experiential, creative expression. I believe in the ability of art (whatever medium) to articulate better than language, and radically hold and express each individual’s relative story.
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 embrace all forms of sexuality including kink and BDSM. I work with all types of relationship and family structures as well. I also provide gender affirming care based on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care.
I specialize in working with individuals, couples, friendships and groups within queer and trans population through struggles with depression, anxiety, trauma, internalized oppression, gender dysphoria, narcissistic abuse, identity, religious/cult recovery, coming out, life transitions, low self esteem, relationship issues, existentialism, minority stress, and apocalyptic anxiety.
Art therapy is an expressive form of psychotherapy that isn't just for "artists," but for everyone. 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 in 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, exploring the woods with my pup Bramble, or philosophizing with a loved one.
