Dr. Daniel Goldstein is a Nashville, Tennessee-based counseling psychologist, who treats individuals, couples and families with a wide range of concerns, from normal life transitions, with accompanying anxiety and depression, to complex trauma and personality disorders. Dr. Goldstein approaches therapy with genuine empathy, curiosity, authenticity and a quiet openness. He tends to work well with individuals who have been in therapy before or who are motivated to understand and work through the underlying causes of their difficulties in longer-term therapeutic relationships.
Dr Goldstein is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and favors the use of interpersonal process groups for many of his clients. He holds the belief that since many of the difficulties he encounters in his clients are rooted in early relationship wounds, any change would necessarily involve being in relationship with others. As an individual therapist, Dr. Goldstein often employs a relational style while helping clients to uncover and work through deep-seated internal conflicts, to become more authentically themselves and to improve their most intimate relationships. He is also a certified SomEx practitioner and is EMDR-trained; he uses both of these modalities to help client’s cultivate insight and renegotiate difficult past experiences in the “here-and-now.”
Dr. Goldstein enjoys supervising and is involved in the training of other therapists at the master’s and doctoral level and is interested in providing professional development opportunities for other mental health professionals. Dr. Goldstein continues to pursue educational and professional growth opportunities through his membership in the American Academy of Psychotherapists and the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Dr. Goldstein earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia. During his training, Dr. Goldstein provided therapy and assessment services to individuals, couples and groups in schools, community mental health and university counseling centers. He also taught a career planning course for three years to undergraduate students.
Dr. Goldstein completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt University Counseling Center in Nashville. Goldstein completed an APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at Clemson University Counseling and Psychological Services. Prior to entering the doctoral program, Goldstein earned a Master’s of Science in Clinical Psychology from Barry University in his hometown of Miami, Florida.
Dr. Goldstein earned multiple academic awards for his research on mothers-in-law and marital satisfaction. He utilizes his extensive knowledge in this area to assist couples in setting boundaries and in developing effective communication.
Prior to entering the field of psychology, Dr. Goldstein worked for ten years in real estate. After years of feeling personally unfulfilled by his profession, he took a leap of faith, deciding to go back to school to pursue his passion for psychology and helping others. Dr. Goldstein’s approach to therapy is informed by his own experience of growth and change.
Dr. Goldstein is licensed in Tennessee and New York, in addition to all PSYPact states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.