CABOT PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES - Key Persons
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- Advocate and Community Trainer, OutFront Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: March 2016 - September 2019
Job Titles:
- Office Staff Member
- Marriage & Family Therapist
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- Licensed Clinical Therapist
JAC is a trans-genderqueer femme, disabled, two-spirit, Native American radical activist and social worker. He works with transgender and gender diverse youth and young adults ages 13-25 who wish to process their identities, experiences, and mental health including depression, bipolar moods, anxiety, dissociation, trauma (including familial abuse, sexual assault, stalking, intimate partner violence, religious trauma, online sexual exploitation, trafficking), self-harm, suicidality, and negotiating disability/chronic pain. He is a trauma-informed feminist, sex positive, allied to multiples/alters, kink-positive, and poly inclusive. He specializes in gender, sexuality, and serving the trans, queer, and the greater LGBTQPIA2S+ community.
JAC has served as a social justice community organizer and educator for over fifteen years, with a focus on trans wellness and community building, genderqueer femme identities, trauma survivors, and accessibility resources. He strives to create visibility and resources for Midwestern trans communities with the heart of his work surrounding trans youth and young adults. His work history spans social justice organizing, direct services, therapy, clinical social work, community education, healthcare advocacy, and artistic activism. In 2008, he founded the Midwest's first multi-state trans wellness organization, Heartland Trans Wellness Group, where he served as Executive Director and Program Director for seven years. His program models targeting isolated trans and queer populations have been adopted in multiple Midwestern cities and he is an established social justice educator on trans activism and depathologizing, harm reductive trans healthcare. He has served in leadership positions in several organizations including The Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, FemmeCon, GLSEN, Advocates for Youth, and the International Drag King Community Extravaganza, volunteers locally with the Minnesota Trans Health Coalition, and facilitates a professional support group for trans health and wellness providers, MSP Trans Identified Provider Support (TIPS).
Job Titles:
- Marriage & Family Therapist
Job Titles:
- Licensed Clinical Therapist
Job Titles:
- Office Staff Member
- Marriage and Family Therapist
Dr. Skyler is a queer-identified therapist who uses a non-judgmental approach to create a safe space where you discuss what is important to you and explore the possibilities in your life. He has a specific sensitivity to working with Veterans and LGBTQPIA2S identified individuals. Over the course of his training, he has also worked extensively with older adults and can provide assistance for individuals struggling with adjustments related to aging. Dr. Skyler provides treatment for those with adjustment concerns, mood or anxiety disorders, anger difficulties, trauma, PTSD, OCD, and substance use disorders at Cabot Psychological Services.
With regard to treatment approaches, Dr. Skyler offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy, motivational interviewing, cognitive processing therapy, and exposure therapy. Dr. Skyler incorporates aspects of feminist beliefs for those dealing with oppressive systems. He strives to understand a person's functioning within an ecological framework by developing interventions that are both evidenced-based and strengths-based.
Dr. Skyler completed his doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and went on to complete his internship at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI in 2019 and then practiced as a licensed psychologist offering psychotherapy to individuals living in the greater metropolitan Detroit area. Recently, he relocated to the Twin Cities where he is excited to offer psychotherapy to adults ages 18-118.
Job Titles:
- Marriage & Family Therapist