Pacific Quest
Hilo, HI

Pacific Quest Welcomes New Counselor

Pacific Quest Hawaii is pleased to welcome Matt Jacobson, MA, as our newest counselor. Matt will join Hilary Moses in providing exceptional care to our students and families. Matt earned his Master's degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. For over thirteen years, he has worked with adolescents in a variety of settings. He was employed as a therapist for SUWS programs in Idaho, as an Instructor for Voyageur Outward Bound School and the National Wildlife Federation, and as a leadership educator for teenagers at several residential environmental schools in California. He also facilitated groups in experiential learning at the Santa Fe Mountain Center. As part of his graduate training, Matt served as the Clinical Intern at the Children's Trauma Recovery Foundation in Boston, where he trained in and implemented innovative treatments related to psychological trauma.

Through the conscious incorporation of the natural world into the therapeutic relationship, Matt's goal as a counselor is to promote the overall health of the people with whom he works, including the health of the environment of which we are all a part.

For more information, please call Pacific Quest at 808-937-5806.

About Pacific Quest:
Pacific Quest is an independently owned and family-operated business that facilitates Personal Development through Experiential Education within a Rites of Passage model. Students, ages 14-17, live in a base camp setting nestled in an eight-acre, working, organic farm on the Big Island of Hawaii.