Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is in private practice in West Los Angeles and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn (New Harbinger, February 2010). He synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. He contends that we have the power to transform our traumas and habitual patterns that keep us stuck in perpetual stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction and step into greater freedom and peace. He offers practical strategies to calm our anxious minds, transform negative emotions and facilitate greater self acceptance, freedom and inner peace.
Dr. Goldstein, who comes from a family of psychologists, advocates that mental health comes from an approach that looks at all aspects of the self - physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual.
As a licensed Psychologist, he teaches mindfulness-based programs on his own and through InsightLA. He has spoken at the UCLA Semel Institute and Anxiety Disorder Clinic, the UCLA Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Conference headlining Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, and Dr. Daniel Siegel, University of Washington, among others, and is the author of the popular Mindfulness and Psychotherapy blog on Psychcentral.com and Mentalhelp.net. He has been published in The Journal of Clinical Psychology and quoted in the New York Daily News, Reuters, NPR, UCLA Today, Beliefnet.com and The Week Magazine.
In his new book, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger, February 2010), he and Bob Stahl, Ph.D. offer professionals and lay people a book that takes them step-by-step through the clinically proven program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and provide over 8.5 hours of audio for guided meditation practice to support the transformation of stress, pain, and illness into greater awareness, freedom, and peace. His previous popular CDs include Mindful Solutions for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention, Mindful Solutions for Success and Stress Reduction at work, Mindful Solutions for Adults with ADD/ADHD (coming soon - produced in collaboration with Lidia Zylowska M.D.) and an online multimedia program, Mindfulness, Anxiety, and Stress.
He currently offers individual and group psychotherapy in West Los Angeles and does mindfulness-based coaching nationally and internationally via the phone.
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Fifteen years ago I refused to go to my first born son’s wedding because it was in a tiny Baptist church. I was born of Jews but am an atheist and try my best to be a Buddhist but would never have the audacity to call myself one; I’m not good enough. Although my daughter-in-law was at first angry with me too, she has forgiven me and we are friends, buddies, mother/daughter, everything! But my son barely says hello to me. I understand now why he turned to this little church, which he has since abondoned. He was a sheriff’s deputy who was singled out by the department and practically put into house arrest mostly because he was too good at what he did and actually arrested a drunken friend of the Sherrif’s! David and I were both atheists when he was younger. My daughter-in-law says he no longer reads the Bible, conributes or attends church, but he refuses, despite my many attempts, to reconcile with me. My feelings 15 years ago were that I was the mother of Jonathan Pollard or someone who hurt the Jews. Asking me to attend his wedding at the Baptist Church was like telling me to come to his wedding at Dachau or Bergen Belsen. My cying over this has ended and I’m very happy in my life, but I love this man so much I wish we could love again and laugh again the way we used to before I leave this earth. Any suggestions? Annie Marcos Amir
Hi there,
I’m so sorry for this disconnection, I hear the love for him in your voice. You can only continue to reach out, but often times the other has to come back to the relationship on their own volition. You may want to try and work with the loving kindness meditation (search on web for it or go here http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfulness/2009/05/feeling-fear-lovingkindness-a-path-to-healing/) and continue to tell him that you’re there for him when he’s ready.
Also, for your earlier question: When someone posts their first comment ever in any of these blogs, that comment will await moderation to keep out spam. Once a person is approved, every comment will just show up automatically.
May you become connected again with your son.
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