Professional Background

Beth Jacobs, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago and Evanston, IL and an adjunct faculty member of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. Her clinical work focuses on individual psychotherapy with an emphasis on therapeutic uses of journaling. She has designed and led groups and workshops on therapeutic journaling techniques and has supervised and taught seminars for training psychologists.

Her extensive clinical experience includes subspecialty training in psychosomatic medicine and serving as a staff psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. She has worked at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s outpatient clinic, rehabilitation program, emergency room and at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, providing therapy and assessment of patients with neurological trauma. Her psychotherapy style derives from training in analytic, interpersonal and cognitive schools of therapy and from experience with people with a wide range of diagnoses, from chronic schizophrenia to mild adjustment disorders.

Dr. Jacobs has also assisted research studies at several hospitals in the Chicago area, on topics including outcome of chronic psychiatric illnesses, eating disorders and psychotherapy process and evaluation. She has written grants, published articles and presented research findings at professional meetings and has received federal funding for her own research study of psychotherapy evaluation.

Dr. Jacobs received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She received a B.A. in English from Yale University in New Haven, CT. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Illinois Psychological Association, and the National Association of Poetry Therapists and is a Northwestern University Scholar.