M.A. in Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
B.A. in Psychology, McGill University
Zoë Goldstein, Psy.D. (she/her) is a postdoctoral clinical research fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. She earned both her Psy.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and a B.A. in Psychology from McGill University. Before joining The Family Institute, Dr. Goldstein completed her APA-accredited predoctoral internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago Counseling Center. Dr. Goldstein has a range of experience providing care to adolescents, couples, and adults in community mental health, college counseling, and private practice. She has also worked with clients holding diverse cultural, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic identities throughout her clinical experience.
Dr. Goldstein is a relational and experiential therapist with advanced training in Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). EFT is an evidence-based approach that supports clients in working directly with their emotions to transform the pain that keeps them stuck. Dr. Goldstein is passionate about helping clients explore and express their emotions to better access self-compassion and empowerment. In addition to EFT, Dr. Goldstein intentionally incorporates other approaches into her work when helpful, such as Internal Family Systems and Mindfulness. In addition to working with depression, anxiety, adjustment challenges, and interpersonal concerns, Dr. Goldstein has a special interest in working with sexual wellbeing and trauma.
In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Goldstein is actively engaged in EFT scholarship and is an active researcher in the Couple & Family Development Lab at TFI. She enjoys contributing to the training of future clinicians, and has loved working as a teaching assistant and supervisor utilizing an emotion-focused framework. Dr. Goldstein is dedicated to a non-pathologizing, intentional, and empathic approach across her clinical, research, and teaching involvement.
Goldstein, Z. (2024). Exploring Therapist Influence on Client Experiencing: Is There a Difference for Experientially Engaged Versus Experientially Distant Depressed Client Subgroups? (Doctoral dissertation, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology).
Goldstein Z., Goldman, R., Rollet D. (in press). Emotion-Focused Therapy. APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology.
Goldman, R., & Goldstein, Z. (2023). Guiding task work in the context of an emotion‐focused relationship. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(7), 1627-1640.
Goldman, R., & Goldstein, Z. (2022). Case formulation in emotion‐focused therapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 78(3), 436-453.
Goldstein, Z., Rosen, B., Howlett, A., Anderson, M., & Herman, D. (2020). Interventions for paternal perinatal depression: a systematic review. Journal of affective disorders, 265, 505-510.
Seto Nielsen, L., Goldstein, Z., Leung, D., Lee, C., & Buick, C. (2019). A scoping review of undocumented immigrants and palliative care: Implications for the Canadian context. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 21, 1394-1405.