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...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Oct 14, 2025 | Therapy Approaches
Self-esteem therapy is a therapeutic process designed to strengthen an individual’s sense of worth, acceptance, and emotional stability. Rather than focusing solely on positive affirmations, effective therapy for self-esteem addresses the roots of self-doubt,...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Sep 30, 2025 | Symptom Relief
Many people arrive at therapy with years of self-blame, believing that their difficulties with organization, follow-through, or focus stem from laziness or character flaws. In reality, these struggles reflect neurobiological differences in attention regulation,...
by Dr. Alan Jacobson | Sep 22, 2025 | Therapy Approaches
Many people struggle with decisions, relationships, or a sense of direction in life, not because they lack insight or resources, but because they feel uncertain about what really matters to them. Many describe a sense of “drifting” or making choices based on habit,...
