She has been delivering psychological services in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area since 1985. Her educational background includes a B.S. degree from Cornell University, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. She completed her clinical internship at the University of Minnesota, and is recognized by the National Register of Health Services Providers in Psychology. Dr. Jacobson worked in Behavioral Pediatrics at the U of M for two years, then at Teen Age Medical Services (TAMS), the adolescent outpatient clinic of Minneapolis Children’s Hospital, for 11 years. At TAMS she worked on developing and staffing an Eating Disorder Treatment Program for adolescents as well as providing more general mental health services to adolescents and their families in this outpatient medical clinic. She has been in private practice since 1999.