by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Dec 3, 2025 | Types of Therapy
As a psychologist who uses narrative therapy and strengths-based approaches in my work, I often reach for the Tree of Life Therapy activity when people need a safe, non-threatening way to tell their story without being retraumatized. It’s simple, visual, and...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Nov 22, 2025 | Types of Therapy
Unlike supportive or insight-only therapies, Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP), sometimes called time-limited dynamic psychotherapy, works to mobilize deep emotional change by uncovering unconscious patterns, bringing them into the present moment, and helping...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Nov 9, 2025 | Types of Therapy
Life Review Therapy is a structured therapeutic process that involves guided reflection on one’s experiences to promote understanding, acceptance, and psychological integration. The roots of the life review process lie in the work of Dr. Robert Butler, a geriatric...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Nov 9, 2025 | Couples Therapies
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) is a form of couples treatment developed by Terry Real, a family therapist and author of The New Rules of Marriage and Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. Emerging in the 1990s, relational couples therapy was...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Nov 2, 2025 | Young adults and College Students
ADHD symptoms that begin in childhood, such as difficulty sustaining attention, time-blindness, executive functioning gaps, and emotional reactivity, can become amplified in the college environment. College brings more unstructured time, higher academic demands, and...
