Transition Group: College and Beyond

Ongoing weekly group led by Dr. Goldstein offers young adults the opportunity to reflect on the past and plan for the future, navigating the transition to adulthood through the dynamic process of group counseling.

These issues and more will be addressed as we explore relationships, reflect on parents, transitions, life goals and family issues. This group offers participants an adjunct resource to their individual treatment, or as an experience unto itself.

Spring Co-Ed Group for High School Students

Newly formed Spring Group for High School students is being co- led by Bonnie Goldstein and Danielle Horwich on Mondays at 6pm.

Midday-Monday Clinical Supervision

Interweaving attachment theory (Bowlby, Main & Hesse), psychodynamic psychotherapeutic techniques (Winnicott, Kohut), and interpersonal neurobiology including innovative research specifying circuitry in our brains that can map the mind of another person (Siegel, Schore, Porges), Dr. Goldstein integrates current research and clinical application including Sensorimotor psychotherapy/somatic/mindfulness based therapeutic interventions (Ogden), EMDR (Shapiro)and psychoeducational intervention.

Toward a New Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships: March 9-11, 2012, UCLA

Dr. Bonnie Goldstein coordinates the Second Annual Interpersonal Neurobiology Conference, featuring renowned clinicians and researchers who provide insight and clarity into the psychotherapeutic practices that nurture the development of emergent therapies.

Clinicians will discover new body-based trauma models that explain the enduring impact of stress on the central and autonomic nervous systems. This discussion will provide a framework for understanding the chronic nature of trauma-related behaviors and how they affect interpersonal communications.

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Monthly parenting group,
led by Dr. Goldstein

The Spring and Summer topics in our parenting series focus on transitions, as our teens finish their high school experiences and enter colleges or the working world. In this challenging yet exciting time for these young adults, Dr. Goldstein will help parents address the myriad of issues that arise.

Elementary School Age Ongoing Groups

Jeremy Fink, MSW and Jana Zawatsky M.S.Ed., NCSP co-lead this group for children in grades 3-5. Shoshanna Hecht LCSW and Nina Drabkin MA co-lead a group for 6-8th grade children. These focus groups will be facilitated in the same fashion as the older adolescent groups, however there will be more structure and guidance in order to foster communication skills, self-awareness and social skills.

Group for Pregnant Women

Group for Pregnant Women. Pregnancy. A time of transition. A time where joy and excitement may be accompanied by sadness and fear. A time when we need to understand and feel understood. Come share your own experience while connecting with a group of like-minded women. Together we will navigate the transition into motherhood, creating more conscious, meaningful, and healthier pregnancies. Lead by Danielle Horwich, MSW, MA. ED. Offered both lunchtime and evenings.

Demystifying The Body’s response to Trauma
Drs. Pat Ogden and Steve Porges

Sunday May 1st, 2011 (7CEU's) at the Beverly Hills Country Club.

Emotions, affect regulation, and interpersonal social behavior are psychological processes that describe basic human experiences in response to events, environmental challenges and people.

During this day-long workshop, Drs. Ogden and Porges will present their ideas, and Dr. Goldstein will facilitate an interactive panel, including audience participation.

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New Directions in Child and Adolescent Therapy: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to Treating Trauma and Attachment Dynamics in our
Younger Patients
September 11, 2011

This UCLA workshop revisits the development of identity, sense of self, and the ability to form and sustain relationships as Drs. Bonnie Goldstein and Pat Ogden address the effects of trauma and attachment dynamics on the developing brain and body and elucidate the significance of the "somatic narrative" in child and adolescent treatment. The ongoing process of body-based, implicit, nonverbal behavior, and the complex interplay between psychological experience, procedural learning, sensory processing, and affect regulation are illuminated through an exploration of movement patterns, gestures, stance, postures, prosody, and other non-verbal cues. Brief experiential exercises and videotaped excerpts of sessions with children and adolescent clients illustrate techniques of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that develop Somatic awareness and initiate new ways to build self-regulation and relationship skills, foster resilience, and create new competencies, all conducted in an atmosphere of curiosity, play, and discovery.

For MFTs/LCSWs, enroll here.

For APA/MCEP, enroll here.

Making Meaning at Mid-Life

When one door closes, another one opens. As children are growing up and moving on to college, parents stand at a new threshold. We have freed up time and energy. We ask ourselves, "How do I want to challenge myself to live a life of meaning and purpose in which I can make a difference?" "How should I challenge my energies?" "What concerns do I have now about my health, my aging parents, my newly independent children?" Dr. Goldstein leads this monthly group.

Fall/Winter Curriculum at USC

Designing a Life: An Exploration of Ways
to Enrich our Lived Experience

July 11-13, 2011
Oaks at Ojai

Bonnie Goldstein and Loren Judaken will be returning to the Oaks at Ojai for this annual weekend experience. This program will help participants discover new paths to heighten the pleasure we receive by reconnecting with all our senses. We will explore ways to refine our environment and quiet our mind in order to explore new possibilities for self awareness, growth and fulfillment. Through collaborative dialogue, guided meditation, individual journaling, and other creative experiences, we will reawaken our mind, body and soul to foster a healing relationship with ourselves and thus with others. Additionally, poetry, mindfulness techniques, and body awareness through somatic experiencing will be fostered.

Raising Responsible Children

Through the group process we will identify and articulate our own values and sense of meaning as it relates to our children. This weekly group will examine how we can raise children with positive values, compassion, empathy, and the ability to communicate about life issues. Understanding of life cycle milestones help us to provide a warm family environment in which to raise our children. Parents will have the opportunity to explore ongoing issues concerning parent-child interaction, develop tools to enhance communication, and elucidate the values that shape the lives of our children. This monthly group is facilitated by Dr. Goldstein.