“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”
– The Dalai Lama
Award-winning psychotherapist for lives inside and outside the box
Licensed in: New York — New Jersey — Washington, D.C. — Pennsylvania — Rhode Island — Illinois
As a therapist with nearly 20 years experience,
My mission is to aid gender and sexually diverse individuals and communities find joy through my psychotherapy, public speaking, writing, and activism…
and to change the world.
You should never have to justify your identity to a healthcare provider. I provide culturally competent, compassionate, and affirming psychotherapy where we can safely ask questions to help you make your own conscious decisions about your life. Our sessions are nonjudgmental and client-centered. If you are so minded, we can simultaneously investigate issues of existential meaning.
Our goal together is your happiness. Whether you identify as transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, kinky, queer, questioning, pansexual, asexual, detransitioner/retransitioner, Dominant, submissive, a sex worker, monogamous, polyamorous, unicorn, neurodivergent, neurospicy, or neurotypical... even cisgender, straight/hetero, or vanilla… I assist people of all genders and sexualities.
I am also devoted to education – of other providers, of allies, of organizations – and I share my expertise on gender and sexual diversity through books and other writing, as well as through clinical supervision. I have provided several hundred lectures, workshops, and interviews throughout the United States and in Europe. I also have served on numerous boards and in other advocacy projects; all this to improve the cultural environment in which we live. And I have access to many resources you may need.
We can be defiant against the current physical and legislative assaults on our identities where ‘they’ bully the vulnerable, inciting hate, violence, fear, and despair. If you, like so many, are feeling distressed about the current world… I can provide support and hope.
we are fierce. And we can experience joy.
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LAURA A. JACOBS LCSW-R
Hiya!! I’m Laura.
I believe all our lives provide fascinating opportunities to explore the human experience. I am devoted to the exploration of identity and the relationship between individual and society, the diversity of gender and sexual identity and expression, and the search for existential meaning. And I am a fierce advocate against those who would see us returned to the shadows, the closets, or worse… I am one of many in the movement to better our world.
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Life is not about finding yourself... it’s about creating yourself.
— G.B. Shaw
“... [Surviving Transphobia is a book] I love and that you should check out… I devoured it and found it very inspirational and hopeful.”
“How fucking wonderful that I have you as a therapist. I’m in awe of how grateful I am.”
— Long-Term Therapy Client