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 adults individually as well as couples, friendships and through art therapy groups within queer and trans population. I specialize in depression, anxiety, trauma, C-PTSD, internalized oppression, codependence, 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’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 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.
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, exploring the woods with my pup Bramble, or philosophizing with a loved one.
