Portland Therapy Center
Jake H. Jacobsen

Jake H. Jacobsen (HE/HIM)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

MA, LCSW

For 25+ years I've provided therapy for the LGBTQ community in New York and Portland, Oregon with a specialty in trans/queer life process.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

Portland,

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $200-$225

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2001

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

My ideal client is you. I work with people of all nationalities, races, religions, health status, sexual and gender identities. Psychotherapy is a collaborative process that begins by exploring the issues you bring into therapy in an environment of openness, and nonjudgemental curiosity. Together, we will work toward strengthening your inner emotional resources, and your ability to begin to make more satisfying life choices for a greater sense of wholeness, and harmony.

My Background

My approach is eclectic including: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Attachment theory, Harm Reduction and Creative Arts Therapy; with a social justice and trauma informed foundation. My practice experience includes counseling people with anxiety, PTSD/trauma (AIDS pandemic, 9/11, Covid) depression and other mood disorders, addiction, adult children of alcoholics, neurodivergent adults/youth, sexuality, gender identity (medical and/or social gender transitioning) for youth and adults who identify as transgender or non-binary and those who are questioning their gender identity, LGBTQ family/partners, people living with HIV/AIDS, and other life challenging conditions.

Why I Became a Therapist

I've been in the LGBTIA+ community since I was a teenager, a main factor that led me into the field of psychology. In the late 1970's luckily I had a therapist that supported my coming out as queer and that meant the world to me. It meant that I could begin to envision a full life as a queer person in an era that told me that being queer was a pathology. Today we're in a time of profound socio-political backlash with a dramatic increase in anti-LGBT+ bills/laws attempting to stop trans youth rights to access healthcare in some states, erasure of black history from education, anti-semitism, banning books, the effects of climate change and the rise of authoritarianism. These issues are all interconnected and their impacts need to be addressed and worked through as they come up throughout the therapy process. What we can't name and can't feel blocks us from becoming more creatively resilient in our daily lives.

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Loss or Grief External link

    The AIDS pandemic and 9/11 brought an urgent need for grief counseling. Those events profoundly changed me as a person and as a therapist. Honing my skills with trauma and loss became a focal point of my training as a therapist. Trauma and loss are often the roots of mental health challenges such as PTSD, anxiety and depression. Today we are living through another major loss with our country sliding into authoritarianism. Processing grief allows for living with loss without losing ourselves.

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