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. 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.