about me

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If you are familiar with Colorado, its Rocky Mountains, its rich colors, its yellow fields and vast skies, you are familiar with where I grew up. At the age of 18, I moved to the coast of California and studied art at the University of California Santa Cruz. There I met my Swiss husband in an internship program and then made the move across the Atlantic. As an expat, I learned to live in a new world, with an entirely different language and culture. It has not always been easy. We raised four great kids here, and I taught English and did volunteer work. When the children got bigger, I resumed my artistic development with a portfolio from the School of Design Bern and Biel where I discovered art therapy. I have now completed the five years of art therapy training at iac in Zurich. It was a very enriching experience.

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I also enjoy

being artistically active - reflecting, experimenting and expressing myself in different mediums

reading and studying – to remain intellectually, philosophically and spiritually stimulated

yoga, hiking, sailing, biking, dancing, traveling, spending time with family and friends

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Education

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2019-2024   Integrative Art Therapy iac*

2017-2018   Portfolio "Color-Design-Form" SGBB 

1990-1994   Bachelor of Arts in Art UCSC 

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*   "The iac method is based on an integrative, multi-perspective and multidimensional approach, i.e. it takes into account the interplay between artistic expression, the client's personality and their psychodynamic and social/therapeutic relationships." from 'Guidelines for Painting and Design Therapy iac'

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Continuing Education

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2024   Trauma-adaptive Art Therapy, TAKT, with certification

2024   The Drama of Emptiness, Udo Baer

               The Consequences and Pathologies

                of Persistent Emptiness Experiences

2023   The Group as Resource, Creante

2022   Art Therapy for Refugees, Prisca Buonvicini 

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Experience

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2022- currently part-time art therapist Psychiatric Inpatient Clinic, Hospital fmi, Interlaken

2022 creative workshop project with refugees & immigrants, Association La Red, Fribourg

2022 internship Living Museum Wil

2020- 2022 many hours of small group and individual therapy

2021 internship Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Hospital fmi, Unterseen

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Feedback on individual therapy in the clinic

 

"This individual therapy has contributed significantly to the process. I have the feeling that at least as much could be worked on in the therapy as in the individual conversation with the psychologist. The combination of talking and painting and Ms. Jacobi's mirroring was especially helpful. Her questions helped me a lot in reflecting. Ms. Jacobi created an environment where self-knowledge could easily take place." (Ms. S., 27-year-old patient)

 

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Outpatient Clinic Project

 

This book is a project I did during my internship in the outpatient clinic.

It offers an impression of what art therapy can look like:

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