I have over 30 years experience providing therapy and assessment services to young adults, adults and families. I am committed to helping others reach a greater understanding and compassion of themselves, to assist in healing from painful experiences and finding new ways of coping. My approach to therapy is practical, results oriented and emphasizes empowerment through building insight and self awareness. I am committed to learning about my clients and working with them to make long lasting changes.My specialty areas include, recovery from alcohol and drugs, depression, anxiety,relationship and life transition issues. I utilize various theoretical orientations in order to tailor my therapeutic interventions to client needs and goals. I have trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy and EMDR.

Through Mountain Family Home therapy, I provide compassionate, home-based play therapy for children, individual counseling for adults and adolescents, and parent education and coaching. I seek to help reawaken that intuitive capacities for children, young adults, adults and parents to trust themselves and to work with the flow of their "emotional anatomy" -- rather than against it. Using somatic psychotherapeutic modalities, nature-based approaches, Synergetic and Attachment Based play therapy, visualization and energetic techniques, and perception-balancing tools, my belief is that our willingness to explore our issues is actually an invitation to a deeply heart-felt personal journey of inspiration, discovery, and liberation. I aim to empower children, individuals, and parents in their relationships with themselves and with each other.

At Root Connections Counseling, I focus on grief and bereavement, couples work and sex therapy, as well as men's work and redefining masculinity. As a bilingual therapist, I offer my services in both English and Spanish. The name Root Connections comes from my philosophy of psychotherapy. Oftentimes, we patch up larger fixes with temporary Band-Aid solutions. At Root Connections, we aim to drop deeper into the root of the issue, finding solutions from the ground up. When we heal our roots, we can walk away with a richer sense of self and strength for all areas of life.

Join me on a collaborative and solution-oriented journey to find your full meaning, potential and passion.

Jaylynne Chase-Jacobsen, L.C.S.W., is Senior Teaching Faculty at the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She is a certified Gestalt therapist, certified Imago Relationship therapist and a trauma therapist certified in Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting. She has over 25 years experience. She works with individuals as well as couples on relationship issues.