Laura Silberstein

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

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

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. "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. "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. 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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