Jacqueline Robertson, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Santa Barbara CA
I approach therapy as a collaborative, relational process grounded in curiosity, compassion, and respect for your unique experience. Together, we create a space where you can slow down, feel deeply, and explore the patterns, emotions, and experiences that shape your relationship with yourself and others.
Drawing from Jungian depth psychology and attachment theory, I help you explore the unconscious dynamics, early relational experiences, and protective strategies that may continue to influence your life. Rather than focusing solely on symptom relief, we seek to understand the deeper meaning beneath recurring patterns and create opportunities for lasting change.
Our work may involve exploring dreams, symbolism, core beliefs, attachment patterns, and disowned parts of yourself. Through somatic psychotherapy and mindfulness, we also attend to the body and nervous system, developing greater awareness of your emotional experience and capacity to remain present with difficult feelings. I draw from approaches including Hakomi, attachment-focused EMDR, and parts work, tailoring our work to your needs, goals, and readiness.
In psychedelic preparation and integration, I offer a supportive space to clarify intentions, establish emotional resources, and explore experiences with openness and psychological depth. Following a psychedelic experience, we work together to process what emerged, explore its personal significance, and integrate insights into your relationships, daily life, and ongoing development.
I believe meaningful change happens through both understanding and experience. Our work honors your pace, recognizes the wisdom in your protective patterns, and invites a more compassionate relationship with yourself. My role is not to impose interpretations or provide predetermined answers, but to accompany you as you develop greater self-awareness, emotional security, and trust in your own inner experience.
Ultimately, I hope to help you reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been overlooked or silenced, develop more fulfilling relationships, and move toward a life that feels increasingly authentic, integrated, and meaningful.
Jacqueline Robertson is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with over 15 years of experience in the healing arts. Her integrative approach bridges contemporary psychological science, somatic and relational psychotherapy, depth psychology, and spiritual inquiry. She supports individuals navigating trauma, attachment wounds, grief, anxiety, relationship challenges, and significant life transitions, helping them reconnect with themselves and cultivate a deeper sense of self-trust, wholeness, and meaning.
Jacqueline has completed advanced training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), with a focus on ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin therapies. She holds a psycholytic ketamine therapy certificate from Palo Alto University and Joyous Ketamine, and has foundational training in the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) model through the Psychedelic Somatic Institute. Her clinical approach draws on attachment theory, somatic experiencing, Hakomi mindfulness, Attachment-Focused EMDR, Jungian psychology, and nervous system regulation.
Jacqueline views psychedelic preparation and integration as a thoughtful, collaborative process that extends beyond a single experience. Preparation offers an opportunity to clarify intentions, establish emotional and somatic resources, and cultivate a foundation of safety and trust. Integration supports individuals in processing what emerges, making meaning of their experiences, and translating insights into meaningful, sustainable changes in everyday life.
Her work is informed by a deep interest in mythology, the unconscious, contemplative traditions, and the Heroine’s Journey—the movement through uncertainty, loss, transformation, and a renewed relationship with oneself. She brings a grounded, compassionate, and nonjudgmental presence to this work, honoring each person’s unique psychological landscape, lived experience, and spiritual orientation.
Jacqueline is also a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and writer. Her whole-person perspective recognizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, nervous system, and spirit, creating space for both evidence-informed clinical care and the deeper questions of identity, belonging, and meaning that can arise during transformative experiences.
Based in Santa Barbara, California, Jacqueline offers psychotherapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and psychedelic preparation and integration support within appropriate legal and ethical boundaries. She does not provide or supply psychedelic substances.