Jeffrey Goldman, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
155 South Madison Street, Suite 332
Denver, CO 80209
Office: (303) 320-0055
Fax: (303) 320-0097

Psychotherapy

Currently providing psychotherapy in a private practice setting to clients with a wide range of complaints. Modalities include individual, couples, family, and group therapy.
Primary treatment model and philosophical stance are solution-focused and client-centered. Cognitive, narrative, and psychodynamic models are often used in group therapy.

Specialty areas through experience and training include the treatment of family violence and marital conflict; parenting and adolescent issues, treatment of impaired colleagues and other mental health professionals (impairments due to addiction, boundary problems, and "burn out"); men's issues including expression of anger, intimacy, and sexual dysfunction; phobias, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, and adjustment disorders.

Contracted to provide psychotherapy with the following Managed Care companies:

Cigna Behavioral Health, PacifiCare, MMA (Mountain Medical Affiliates), VBH (Value Behavioral Health), USBH, Aetna, Great West, PRO, Managed Health Network, United Behavioral Health

Contracted as Employee Assistance Program Provider (EAPP) with the following companies:

Wellpoint, San Diego, CA; People Resources, St. Louis MO; Vincam Group, Coral Gables, FL; Occupational Health Services, San Raphael, CA; Optum, McClean, VA; Pierrs, Inc., Fairfax, VA

Appointed as on staff therapist at St. Francis Cabrini Catholic Church, Littleton, Colorado.

Supervision, Consultation and Training:
Provides clinical individual supervision to mental health professionals in private practice. Currently providing an on-going consultation/training group in solution-focused therapy. A reflecting team format is utilized during twice-monthly group sessions.

Has instructed, supervised, and provided field placement to interns from the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Graduate Program in Psychiatric Nursing, Colorado State University

Graduate School of Social Work and from Metro State University. Has been responsible for teaching graduate students solution-focused psychotherapy and the dynamics of family violence, and for providing to them direct supervision of their clinical caseload.

Additionally, has worked as a practice monitor for the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

Consultation contracts have included:

&Mac183; January 2000 through August 2001, contracted to provide clinical supervision to B.I., a certified domestic violence program in Denver, Colorado.

&Mac183; February 1996 through February 1997, contracted to provide clinical supervision to Centennial Mental Health Center, Fort Morgan Colorado.

&Mac183; September 1996 through June 1997, contracted to provide clinical supervision to staff at Urban Peak, Denver, Colorado.

Regularly provides training, in-services, and workshops on solution-focused psychotherapy and its relationship to and compatibility within the area of family violence. Has presented to professional staffs at mental health centers, drug/alcohol treatment programs, employee assistance programs, and battered women's shelters throughout the state of Colorado.

Full day workshops and trainings have included:

* Spring of 1991, workshops in Denver, Alamosa, and Grand Junction, Colorado, entitled
An Integrative Approach To Domestic Violence

* The 1992 Spring Symposiums entitled, Perspectives on Safety co-sponsored with the Family Therapy Training Center of Colorado

* January 31, 1992, Overcoming Family Violence: Finding differences that make a difference
at the 1992 NCADA Winter School on Addictive Behavior

September 18, 1992, through 2000 (twice per year): Overcoming Family Violence for Arapahoe House and ADAD's continuing education and training program

* March 16, 1995, Solution-Focused Therapy, with The Solution Group, sponsored by the McMaster Center, Colorado Springs, CO

* May 5, 1995, Violence: Causes and Cures, panel presentation for the Colorado Psychological Association Annual Conference

* May 23, 1996, Taking Safety Home, full day presentation at the 3rd Annual East Coast Solution-Focused Therapy Conference, Virginia Beach, VA

* June 27 through June 30, 1996, Constructivist Treatment of Domestic Violence, panel presentation with Eve Lipchik and Stephen Madigan at Therapeutic Conversations 3, Denver, CO

* February 13, 1997, Taking Safety Home, one half day presentation at Third National Clinical Social Work Conference, Lake Buena Vista, FL

  • April 30, 1999, Utilizing the “Cycle of Violence” as an Induction for “Letting Go,” presentation of paper at Fourth National Conference for Clinical Social Work, Washington, D.C.
  • May 20, 21, 1999, Engaging Men in Treatment: A Solution Focused Approach; 2 day workshop sponsored by The Family Continuity Program, St. Petersberg, FL
  • September 19, 2003, Resisting Resistance: Beating the Odds with Unmotivated and/or Mandated Clients, One day workshop sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Training Center for Solution Focused Therapy

Program Development

Developed in January 1989, and now directs PATH (Peaceful Alternatives in The Home), a multi-faceted treatment program encompassing all aspects of family violence. PATH is unique among domestic violence programs in at least two important ways. First, it provides services not only to individuals in distress but, also, to couples and families experiencing violence in their lives. Secondly, PATH embraces a solution-focused model. This model reinforces clients' self-determination and emphasizes safety by supporting clients to recover/discover the ability to interact respectfully and non-violently.

Developed in September 1998 and co-owner of Front Range Psychotherapy Providers, a Limited Liability Corporation which contracts with various managed care companies and uses independent contractors to provide services to clients insured through these companies.

Work History

* January 1, 1989 to present:
Director and psychotherapist, PATH (See PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT)
155 South Madison St., Suite 332, Denver, CO 80209

* September 1, 1998 to December 31, 2001:
Co-Owner and psychotherapist, Front Range Psychotherapy Providers
155 South Madison St., Suite 332, Denver, CO 80209

* March 15, 1983 to December 31, 1988:
County Coordinator of Clinical Services, psychotherapist, AMEND
(Abusive Men Exploring New Directions).
777 Grant, Denver, CO 80203
Provided direct treatment to perpetrators of domestic violence, developed and implemented marketing and fund raising for AMEND.

* September 1, 1982 to June 30, 1987:
Emergency Clinician, Jefferson County Mental Health Center
9808 W. Cedar, Lakewood, CO 80226
Provided emergency evaluations for Mental Health Center clients and Jefferson County residents. Responsible for implementing 27-10 (hold and treat) for evaluations done in emergency rooms and police stations. Provided crisis intervention and brief therapy to Center clients.

* January 1, 1981 to December 31, 1982
Family therapist, Family Tree and Gemini Shelter
Arvada, CO
Provided brief family therapy to families of adolescents placed at Gemini Shelter. Responsible for coordinating and implementing treatment plans among shelter staff, youth services workers, the family, and the adolescent in placement.

* July 1, 1978 to September 1, 1980
Plumber, Trout Plumbing
Berkeley CA

* September 1, 1977 to June 1, 1978
Emergency Clinician, Aurora Mental Health Center
Aurora, CO

* January 1, 1973 to June 1, 1975
Transportation Planning Technician, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Berkeley, CA


* September 1, 1970 to June 1, 1972
Teacher, Abbott Elementary, Chicago Public Schools
Chicago, IL
Taught BD (Behaviorally Disturbed) classrooms of nine to twelve year old inner-city children.

Education

September, 1975 to June, 1977
University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work
Denver, CO
Degree: M.S.W., Treatment Concentration

July, 1968 to June, 1969
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio
Degree: M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching), Secondary Education
Honors: Oberlin College Fellowship

September, 1963 to June, 1968
Oberlin College
Oberlin Ohio
Degree: B.A., English Literature
Honors: Dean's List, 1967, 1968

Licenses and Certifications

B.C.D. (Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work)
Received October 25, 1988
Certification #006353

L.C.S.W. (Licensed Colorado Social Worker)
Received May 1, 1986
License #986054

B.C.C.S.W. (Board Certified in Clinical Social Work)
Received, February 1, 1987
Certificate #7119

Recognition

Elected May, 1990, as the Denver Metro Area at-large member to the Board of Directors to the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers

Appointed September, 1991, member of the Colorado Task Force on Mediation and Domestic Violence

Appointed April, 1992, Chairperson of the Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Colorado Chapter of NASW

Recognized by various Colorado courts as an Expert Witness in order to provide testimony related to the dynamics of domestic violence

Featured as family therapist on CBS News show, "48 Hours," February 8, 1994

Recruited March, 1995, as member of the Board of Directors of the Cross-Cultural Community Coalition

Publications

Treating couples: An alternative approach. Family Violence Bulletin, (5,4) Winter, 1989.
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Protect us from the protectors. Family Violence Bulletin, (7,3) Fall, 1991.

Taking safety home: A solution-focused approach to cases of domestic violence. With Johnson, Charles. M. F. Hoyt (Ed.), Constructive Therapies, Volume 2, (pp. 184-195). Guilford Publications, Inc., 1996.

What do you think about what the team said? The solution-focused reflecting team as a virtual therapeutic community. With Johnson, Charles, Waters, Marty, and Webster, Denise, Contemporary Family Therapy, (19,1) pp. 49-62.

Biographical

Born December 8, 1944, Chicago, IL
Married, April 10, 1983
Two children, born July 4, 1987 and May 3, 1992

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