Healing Is Not Just Removal of Symptoms, But Restoration of Personal Development

Dr. Steiner is a specialist in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is board certified (California License #A32963) and has over 30 years of experience practicing psychiatry. His services include diagnosis, testing, and integrated treatment, as well as consultation and second opinions across the patient's life span.

His areas of expertise are eating disorders, psychosomatic disorders, disturbances of attention and impulsivity, and trauma-related psychopathology.

He has been selected by his peers as an outstanding practitioner for many years and has gained professional recognition from Good Housekeeping, Castle & Conolly’s Top Doctors, Best Doctors Inc., and Who's Who in America.

Performance Optimization

Dr. Steiner is also a specialist in working with elite performers and athletes of all ages on mental toughness, focus and performance optimization. He works with Stanford athletes, actors and musicians to help them achieve their goals.

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Expert in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Recent broad based and convincing evidence has shown that this form of psychotherapy is the most potent of all psychiatric interventions, having triple the efficacy of medication treatment and double the efficacy of behavioral treatment. (Jonathan Shedler, American Psychologist, 2010) Most encouragingly, the effects of this treatment do not seem to become weaker after treatment has stopped as happens with behavioral treatment. Weakening of treatment effect also happens with almost all medication treatment, as drugs lose their initial power. In psychodynamic therapy, benefits seem to accrue far beyond active treatment. The goal of psychodynamic therapy is not just symptom reduction and elimination, but restoration of health and personal growth (for a jargon free introduction to the technique, please click here for a free download).

The therapy has the following special characteristics:

1.  We focus on affective expression and understanding of events from an affective/emotional perspective

2. Attempts to avoid or repress distressing thoughts and feelings are explored and  treated 

3. Patient and doctor work together to identify recurrent themes and patterns in people's lives

4. We focus on personal growth and development and understanding of past experience as it determines current behavior and thinking

5. We concentrate on interpersonal relationships

6. The therapeutic relationship itself serves as a vehicle to understand real life relationships

7. By exploring their fantasy life, patients gain access to their innate creativity.

Appointments
Appointments can be made by contacting Dr. Steiner via email (no phone calls) at: steiner@stanford.edu.

Fees
Please contact Dr. Steiner for hourly fees. Dr. Steiner does not accept insurance in his private practice.