Clinical Practice
For me, psychotherapy is offering patience, understanding, insight, acceptance, compassion, relationship, and a secure base to persons suffering from burdens too heavy to carry alone. I compare myself to a container into which my patients pour their unbearable feelings. My task is to detoxify these feelings and make them easier to understand and tolerate. I help my patients to use healthy relationships with others to meet their emotional needs and the emotional needs of others. To establish and maintain healthy relationships, we work in session on understanding our own and others’ mental states (wishes, feelings, intentions) and how these are connected to how we behave toward each other. Relationships tend to work better when we are able to understand our own and others’ minds and how our minds influence how we behave toward each other.
I am Associate Professor of Psychology in the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program (for more information about my credentials, please see my curriculum vitae). I am also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with 29 years of experience in private practice, providing treatment to children, adolescents, and adults in Lynbrook, Nassau County, New York. My areas of expertise with children and adolescents include disruptive behavior disorders, attachment disorders, living with a parent suffering from sex addiction, and the consequences of childhood physical and sexual abuse. My areas of expertise with adults include severe personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder, sex addiction, and partner betrayal trauma. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist, certified child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst, certified sex addiction therapist, certified sex therapist, and registered play therapist. I use a variety of clinical techniques uniquely suited to the suffering individual, which include psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, play therapy, family and couples therapy, and task-based therapies. My office is located at 43 Jarvis Place (Rose St. entrance), and you can contact me by telephone (516-299-4277) or e-mail ([email protected]). Office hours are Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Scheduling of appointments depends on availability.
Sexual addiction is a complex addiction, but there is hope. As a trained Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT; see http://www.iitap.com), I have completed training developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes (http://www.sexhelp.com), which required attendance at multiple training modules and supervision with a CSAT Supervisor. It also requires ongoing education so that CSATs are experts in providing sexual addiction therapy. It is a rigorous process designed to help me best help you.
To learn more about treatment for sex addiction, including an initial free sexual addiction screening assessment (http://www.recoveryzone.com), please visit http://www.sexhelp.com. If you are a partner, take the Partner Sexuality Survey (http://www.recoveryzone.com).
You can listen to a podcast of my interview, “How Do You Help the Kids Cope with Their Parents’ Sex Addiction?” on The Hope—Strength—Recovery Show radio broadcast with Carol the Coach, here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sexhelpwithcarolthecoach/2014/10/21/how-do-you-help-the-kids-cope-with-their-parents-sa-with-carol-the-coach
Children of sex addicts need to know that they are not alone in their suffering, that help is available to them, and that families do get better with treatment. These children need to know that they did not cause their parent’s sex addiction, nor can they control it or cure it. In words and pictures, my children’s book conveys this powerful message for children ages 6 to 12. The only children’s book of its kind, Junk in the Trunk is aimed at parents, therapists, pediatricians, and other professionals working with children who might be struggling in the wake of this addiction. This book will be published in 2021 by Walker Inspirations.
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D.
43 Jarvis Place (entrance on Rose St.)
Lynbrook, NY 11563
(516) 299-4277
[email protected]
(also on Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet, and Google Duo)
Copyright © 2021 Dr. Geoff Goodman
I am Associate Professor of Psychology in the Long Island University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program (for more information about my credentials, please see my curriculum vitae). I am also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with 29 years of experience in private practice, providing treatment to children, adolescents, and adults in Lynbrook, Nassau County, New York. My areas of expertise with children and adolescents include disruptive behavior disorders, attachment disorders, living with a parent suffering from sex addiction, and the consequences of childhood physical and sexual abuse. My areas of expertise with adults include severe personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder, sex addiction, and partner betrayal trauma. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist, certified child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst, certified sex addiction therapist, certified sex therapist, and registered play therapist. I use a variety of clinical techniques uniquely suited to the suffering individual, which include psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, play therapy, family and couples therapy, and task-based therapies. My office is located at 43 Jarvis Place (Rose St. entrance), and you can contact me by telephone (516-299-4277) or e-mail ([email protected]). Office hours are Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Scheduling of appointments depends on availability.
Sexual addiction is a complex addiction, but there is hope. As a trained Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT; see http://www.iitap.com), I have completed training developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes (http://www.sexhelp.com), which required attendance at multiple training modules and supervision with a CSAT Supervisor. It also requires ongoing education so that CSATs are experts in providing sexual addiction therapy. It is a rigorous process designed to help me best help you.
To learn more about treatment for sex addiction, including an initial free sexual addiction screening assessment (http://www.recoveryzone.com), please visit http://www.sexhelp.com. If you are a partner, take the Partner Sexuality Survey (http://www.recoveryzone.com).
You can listen to a podcast of my interview, “How Do You Help the Kids Cope with Their Parents’ Sex Addiction?” on The Hope—Strength—Recovery Show radio broadcast with Carol the Coach, here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sexhelpwithcarolthecoach/2014/10/21/how-do-you-help-the-kids-cope-with-their-parents-sa-with-carol-the-coach
Children of sex addicts need to know that they are not alone in their suffering, that help is available to them, and that families do get better with treatment. These children need to know that they did not cause their parent’s sex addiction, nor can they control it or cure it. In words and pictures, my children’s book conveys this powerful message for children ages 6 to 12. The only children’s book of its kind, Junk in the Trunk is aimed at parents, therapists, pediatricians, and other professionals working with children who might be struggling in the wake of this addiction. This book will be published in 2021 by Walker Inspirations.
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D.
43 Jarvis Place (entrance on Rose St.)
Lynbrook, NY 11563
(516) 299-4277
[email protected]
(also on Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet, and Google Duo)
Copyright © 2021 Dr. Geoff Goodman