Laura Silberstein
EducationYeshiva University
Medical career
InstitutionsFerkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Laura Silberstein is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and author.[1][2][3]

Education

Silberstein earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University.<[4]

Psychology

Silberstein is the founding director of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy in New York. She specializes in evidence-based techniques for treating an array of psychological issues. She also trains therapists with CFT, ACT and DBT.[4][5]

Silberstein is an assistant professor consultant at the Ferkauf School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research interests consist of compassion-focused therapy, emotions, mindfulness and psychological flexibility. Her research on the fundamentals of Emotional Schema Theory was published in the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy.[6][1][4][7]

Works

  • The ACT Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Compassion: Tools for Fostering Psychological Flexibility (2014) with Benjamin Schoendorff and Dennis Tirch[8]
  • Buddhist Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (2015) with Dennis Tirch, Russell L. Kolts[8]
  • How to Be Nice to Yourself: The Everyday Guide to Self Compassion: Effective Strategies to Increase Self-Love and Acceptance (2019)[9]
  • Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (2019) with Martin J. Brock, M. Joann Wright, R. Trent Codd and Dennis Tirch[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "13 Badass Psychologists…Who Happen to Be Women". New Harbinger. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Lindley, Jennifer King. "What Is Resilience? Psychologists Explain How to Grow From Painful Moments". Health.com. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Kippert, Amanda. "It's Time We Start Being Nicer to Ourselves". DomesticShelters.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 "Staff: Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch". The Center for Compassion Focused & Therapy & ACT-NYC. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PsyD". Praxis Continuing Education and Training. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Tirch, Dennis D.; Leahy, Robert L.; Silberstein, Laura R.; Melwani, Poonam S. (1 December 2012). "Emotional Schemas, Psychological Flexibility, and Anxiety: The Role of Flexible Response Patterns to Anxious Arousal". International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. 5 (4): 380–391. doi:10.1521/ijct.2012.5.4.380. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Laura R. Silberstein's scientific contributions". ResearchGate. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  8. 1 2 Tirch, Dennis D; Schoendorff, Benjamin; Silberstein, Laura R (2014). The ACT practitioner's guide to the science of compassion tools for fostering psychological flexibility. OCLC 984816945. Retrieved 15 January 2021 – via WorldCat.
  9. ↑ Silberstein, Laura R (2019). How to be nice to yourself: the everyday guide to self-compassion : effective strategies to increase self-love and acceptance. OCLC 1120084285. Retrieved 15 January 2021 – via WorldCat.
  10. ↑ "Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Guides for Psychotherapists) | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science". Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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