Jack Bartel

Dr. Jack Bartel is a licensed clinical psychologist and LGBTQ+ health educator and consultant. He currently provides affirmative counseling to the LGBTQ+ community and specializes in gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and gender-affirming surgery evaluations/letters of support. He also has clinical expertise in health psychology, which is the provision of clinical services bridging the gap between medical and mental health care.

He has significant experience working with behavior change interventions with a wide array of individuals from diverse backgrounds; from those who suffer from medical conditions co-occurring with mental illness, to those seeking to more successfully navigate their food intake, exercise goals, or decrease tobacco use.

He has worked in many different clinical settings such as a surgical critical care unit, an inpatient rehabilitation unit, a primary care integrated health setting in a Federally Qualified Health Center, an outpatient behavioral medicine clinic, and a VA Medical Center. He also has experience working with general mental health from depression and anxiety, to coping with large life transitions. He even completed time working overnights in an inpatient psychiatric facility. He has been working with telemedicine platforms since 2016, and currently provides all virtual care through Included Health.