Dr. Deryl Goldenberg

Clinical Psychologist
PSY # 15234

Dr. Goldenberg is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over 25 years providing in-depth individual and couples therapy, while also providing intervention services to children with emotional and developmental disorders.

He provides couples therapy dealing with: reactive communication; sexuality; anger; finances; and betrayal. Dr. Goldenberg works to bring out into the open each partners’ concerns about the relationship, and their way of talking and listening to one another. When disagreements flair up, individuals usually get into a predictable pattern of ‘reacting rather than responding,’ and this can over time create painful feelings of dissatisfaction and ‘wanting out.’ Often accompanying current emotional conflict are ‘projections,’ a transfer of past unresolved childhood issues that ‘fit’ with the present situation. It is therefore important to learn how to recognize your own transference patterns—so you can take back your projections. As well, developing yourself into a skilled ‘sender and receiver’ of communication is key to working through old hurts and impasses so as to create the intimacy and companionship you both desire.

Dr. Goldenberg also treats adults in individual therapy dealing with issues of loneliness, anxiety, depression, and fear of risking change. He uses psychodynamic therapy that integrates ‘Feeling Release Therapy,’ that helps access conditioned ways of thinking and feeling about oneself. Within this therapeutic process an individual can come to understand where they are, how they got there, and how to develop realistic personal goals - a road map to get more of what they want in their life.

Dr. Orkideh Csukay

Psychologist Assistant
PSB # 30715
Fluent in Farsi and Spanish

Dr. Csukay is a registered psychological assistant.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at California State University, Northridge.  Her Master of Arts and Doctoral Degrees were earned in Clinical Psychology from California School of Psychology, Los Angeles, accredited by the American Psychological Association.  She is presently working towards licensure under the supervision of Deryl Goldenberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Csukay is a tri-lingual psychotherapist who is fluent in English, Spanish and Farsi.  She evaluates, diagnoses and treats children, adolescents, adults and families.  She has extensive training in providing family therapy to intact, separated, divorced and blended families with step-parents and step-children.  She is particularly skilled in working with families from different countries and cultures.  Dr. Csukay brings a high level of awareness and sensitivity to the impact that cultural values have on child rearing.  Much of her work in the past 5 years has focused on helping families from non-American cultures keep their traditional values and beliefs while raising their children in the American culture. 

Parents raising difficult children will benefit from Dr. Csukay’s extensive training and experience over the past 12 years using behavior modification techniques to bring about positive channels in children’s behavior.  She is a trained provider of the “Catch Them Being Good” parenting program.  In addition to children with ADD/ADHD, OCD and ODD, Dr. Csukay treats children who are challenged by depression, anxiety, adoption issues, social skills deficits, loss, grief and bereavement and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  She also helps teens navigate their way through the difficult hurdles of adolescence including dating and romantic relationships, sexuality, and peer pressure for alcohol, sex and drugs.  She has a unique approach to help parents and teens communicate about these difficult issues. 

Dr. Csukay also enjoys working with siblings of special needs children, helping them with the frustration that comes from living with a sibling who has behavioral and psychological difficulties.  Dr. Csukay completed her Doctoral Dissertation on the study of sibling relationships and family dynamics when there is a child with autism in the home.

Dr. Shadi Shirazi

Registered Psychology Assistant
PSB # 33550
Bilingual in English and Farsi

Dr. Shirazi is a Registered Psychology Assistant practicing in Encino, CA. She has an extensive background in helping children and their families impacted by various conditions such as, Autism, Asperger’s Disorder, Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and other childhood social-emotional-behavioral problems. Her doctoral thesis, “Families of Children with Autism: Parental Psychological Well-being”, focuses on the significance of parents’ emotional coping and adjusting to having a child diagnosed with autism.

She has years of experience applying floor-time therapy and applied behavior analysis when working with children on the autism spectrum ranging between the ages of 3 and 18 years old. Dr. Shirazi has also helped individual adults dealing with mood and anxiety disorders, marital conflicts, as well as parenting strategies.

As a multi-cultural clinician, she offers a unique and well-rounded approach to serve her clients. She has successfully worked with many individuals and families of diverse social economic and cultural backgrounds in a variety of environments such as college campuses, government sponsored agencies, community counseling centers, as well as in-home and in-school settings. Furthermore, she has hands on experience with individual educational planning (IEP), regional center programs, and cognitive and social-emotional assessments.

Her success with her clients is anchored in her theoretical and personal approach based on the belief that any sustainable individual change is contingent on a desirable systematic modification. Moreover, when working with individuals, Dr. Shirazi utilizes the therapeutic relationship as well as her knowledge about cognitive processes to address symptoms impairing the client’s functioning.

Dr. Shirazi holds a B.A., two Masters’ Degrees (Counseling and Clinical Psychology) and a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Multi-cultural diversity. She is an active member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Los Angeles County Psychological Association (LACPA), and the Western Psychological Association (WASC). Lastly, she has presented her research outcomes at WASC on numerous occasions.