Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant
–“Specialty”” Trainer in BSP with Kids & Adolescents
Dr. Jacobi is a Lutheran pastor who maintains a transdisciplinary pastoral psychotherapy and consultation practice in New York City; she also serves as Pastoral Associate at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Times Square. Her practice specializations include trauma and spirituality, at-risk families and children, and creativity/performance enhancement. She recently became Associate Dean for the Brainspotting Concentration in Behavioural Health at International University for Graduate Studies, in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Humanitarian work is important to Dr. Jacobi. She was a clinician with Faithful Response, a post-9/11 non-profit organization; currently, she joins Brainspotting developer, Dr. David Grand in providing service through the Resiliency Center of Newtown CT, and is a referral clinician for military veterans relating to the New York City Wounded Warrior Project.
A pioneer in using psychophysiological methods in congregational settings of care, Dr. Jacobi is a Brainspotting Trainer and workshop presenter for clergy and spiritual caregivers, as well as mental health clinicians. She has advanced training in Bowen family therapy, EMDR, and Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor therapy. Her work is informed by her background as a performing artist in music and dance.
Her publications include “Using EMDR with Religious and Spiritually Attuned Clients,” in EMDR Solutions II (Robin Shapiro, ed.), “Psychophysiological Therapy,” in The Concise Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling (Glenn H. Asquith, Jr., ed.), and”Smelling Remembrance,” in Sensing Sacred (Jennifer Baldwin, ed.). She is co-author (with Monika Baumann et al) of the article “Brainspotting with Children and Adolescents.” Current work-in-progress are related to Brainspotting with children, and Brainspotting in spiritual practice.