Lisa Blum, Psy.D. (PSY#19790) is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified EFT therapist who specializes in promoting healthy family relationships. Dr. Blum has worked as a mental health professional since 1987. Currently Dr. Blum is in private practice in Pasadena and West Hollywood, where her work includes individual, couples, and family therapy, and consultation, training, and public speaking on family, marital, and parenting issues. She has worked extensively with parents and children, teachers and staff both in clinical practice and in community settings, and she consults to public and private schools and organizations to develop programs that support families. Dr. Blum utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in her work to help couples and families strengthen relationships and build deep and lasting connections.

Dr. Blum’s previous experience includes: Supervising Psychologist at the Institute for Girls’ Development in Pasadena; Supervising Psychologist for Children’s Hospital - Los Angeles; Staff Researcher at the UCLA Center for Adolescent Health Promotion; and Director of Education for the HiTOPS Teen Health Center in Princeton, NJ, where she designed educational programs for teens, parents, and teachers on healthy adolescent development. Dr. Blum holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology from Rutgers University and a Bachelors degree in Psychology with honors from Cornell University.

To learn more about Dr Blum, please visit https://www.drlisablum.com/.
 

Silvina Irwin, Ph.D. (PSY#19710) is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified EFT Trainer, Therapist and Supervisor in private practice in Pasadena, CA. In her clinical practice, Dr. Irwin specializes in working with survivors of childhood and adult trauma, focusing on healing and recovery at the individual level, as well as addressing the impact that traumatic experiences have on intimate relationships in her work with couples. Dr. Irwin also provides treatment for mood and anxiety disorders and relationship and family distress. She works with individuals across the lifespan, including children, teens, and adults. In addition to providing clinical services, Dr. Irwin trains and supervises therapists nationally and internationally in EFT and offers the entire series of prerequisite courses for certification in EFT. Dr. Irwin also conducts workshops for professionals in the community, including the police department, Office of the District Attorney, therapists and psychology trainees at various centers, and medical staff at local hospitals, to name a few.  

Dr. Irwin was trained and mentored by Dr. Sue Johnson in her development as an EFT trainer. Dr. Irwin was an intern at Harvard Medical School, completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of San Francisco, California Medical School. She received her Masters and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Prior to her work in private practice, she was a psychologist at the University of San Francisco providing clinical services, supervision, teaching and training, as well as conducted research on best-practices in the treatment of child trauma.

To learn more about Dr. Irwin, please visit her website at www.drsilvinairwin.com. 

Therese Spellman, M.A. (LMFT 127099) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the EFT Resource Center. Therese specializes in helping couples learn to truly see and hear each other in order to reconnect and deepen their relationship. In addition, Therese has experience working with adult individuals undergoing difficult or challenging life transitions and the uncomfortable emotions they produce, as well as with people suffering from trauma, past or present.

Therese earned her Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Phillips Graduate University. She also holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Psychology and Women’s Studies from California State University, Northridge. Therese developed her sensitivity to the subtleties of body language and emotional expression from practicing body work for over 20 years as a licensed massage therapist.

Please feel free to give Therese a call if you would like to discuss working together.

Bill Saltzman, PhD (PSY#16235) is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of marriage and family therapy at California State University, Long Beach where he co-directs the Counseling Psychology / Marriage & Family Therapy graduate program. Dr. Saltzman is pleased to be in private practice with the EFT Resource Center and offer therapy for individuals, couples and families contending with relational and life difficulties as well as mood and anxiety disorders. He embraces the attachment-based approach of EFT and prefers meeting in person, if possible, in his Pasadena office.

Dr. Saltzman also specializes in working with trauma, loss, and traumatic grief and he has pioneered relational approaches for navigating serious medical illness and end of life. This has involved setting up programs within the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and Cancer Support Community Los Angeles where he conducted therapy with couples and families. Complementing his clinical practice, Dr. Saltzman has been a member of the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program for 23 years. In this capacity he has conducted research, developed evidence-based treatments, and published articles and books on the treatment of anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

If you would like to speak with or set up an introductory session with Dr. Saltzman, please text or leave a message at (626) 840-2900 or you can email at wsaltzman01@gmail.com.