Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D.
Founder, The Center for Mindful Living, L.A.
Courses: CALM: Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness
Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Director and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles along with her husband, Elisha Goldstein, PhD. She is also the co-creator of the Good Morning America featured popular teen program – CALM: Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness which is an 8-week program that teaches mindfulness and social/emotional learning to teens. Her passion is working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families struggling with daily life, helping to support them on their path towards healing and growth.
Dr. Goldstein believes therapy involves all aspects of the self, including the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual. She specializes in integrating mindfulness when working with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma. She utilizes an integrative approach by drawing from traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy, mindfulness, cognitive therapy, and somatic psychology. Most importantly, she believes the therapeutic relationship is paramount in the healing and change process.
Dr. Goldstein has extensive experience working with trauma and completed her training as an Addiction Medicine Specialist during her post-doctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente’s Chemical Dependency Recovery Program (CDRP) in San Francisco. She also completed 3-year training program in Psychosynthesis, an integrative form of psychology that focuses on the synthesis, healing, and growth of the self. She has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher.
Dr. Goldstein has provided training and clinical supervision to therapy interns for nearly a decade. She has spoken and/or given trainings at USC, UCLA, Kansas University, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, University of Washington, The HELP Group, Los Angeles County Psychological Association, Family Service of Santa Monica and Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center. She published an article in a peer reviewed journal based on her research entitled The Exploration of Spirituality and Identity Status in Adolescence, numerous articles in Mindful Magazine, and is the co-author of the popular Audio CD Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention.
For more information about Dr. Goldstein you can visit her website at: www.stefaniegoldsteinphd.com or email her directly at stefanie@mindfullivingla.org.
Audio Meditations
The Mindfulness of Breathing – 10 minutes
Body Scan – 11 minutes
STOP Practice –
Lovingkindness – 9 minutes