In our therapy sessions, our commitment is to offer a warm, safe, experience for our clients. Each person brings his/her individual concerns. Together, Dr. or Mrs. Jacobs works with the client to tailor a treatment plan that meets your needs. Using decades of experience and finely honed intuitive skills, we offer short-term and long-term individual, family, and/or marital therapy.

In our books, we are committed to offering concepts and tools for positive relationships, not cookbook formulas. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs - and one of the most important - in the world. We support you for wanting to learn more about parenting whether your child is 3, 15, or 30. Because there is no parent manual attached to our child when she comes into the world, we are continuously learning as we go. There is no room for guilty recriminations, only for accepting our imperfection and simultaneously, our openness to continually being a learner. As parents, we grow our own souls while we guide our children in growing theirs.

We try to be helpful AND brief. Parents don't have time for lengthy dissertations or lectures so our books are deliberately written to be reader friendly. Remember these simple acronyms:

For a bad relationship -
B - Badger
A - Attack
D - Downplay your child's positive behavior

For a good relationship -
G - Give respect, encouragement, support
O - Overlook a lot of minor behavior
O - Observe the positive qualities of your child
D - Delight in the person who is your son or daughter

For parents of adult children, we stress the R.C.A. approach for a good relationship:
R - RESPECT your child as a separate and independent person.
C - COMMUNICATE which is a two way street. Parents express their needs and opinions, at the same time listening to your child's needs without judging or interrupting.
A - ACCEPT your child as an adult. You have done your job. We advocate shifting your focus to your own life.