Hi, I’m Dr. Matthew Silverstein, and I specialize in Integrative Depth Psychology. This is a holistic, collaborative, and mindfulness-based framework for psychotherapy that works to help you feel more grounded and empowered to navigate your life, deepen your capacity for intimacy, and achieve your personal, relationship, and professional goals.
Individual Therapy: Integrative Depth Psychology for Lasting Change
Anxiety, depression, intimacy struggles, or addictions usually have a root cause. Integrative depth psychology provides a blend of time honored and cutting edge, evidence based practices to help you clarify and work through old patterns that may be holding you back. Over time, many clients experience meaningful and lasting changes including more resilience, greater calm, lasting recovery, more energy, closer relationships, and a stronger connection to their community, cultural roots, and sense of purpose.
Individual therapy clients see a wide range of improvements in their daily lives through online integrative depth psychology sessions with Dr. Matthew Silverstein, including:
- Addressing the root causes of challenges
- Centering on your present moment experience
- Strengthening your recovery
- Increasing your ability to connect intimately with others
- Freeing up energy for pursuing important life goals
Couple Therapy: Learning to navigate conflict & build intimacy
Intimate relationships across the gender and sexuality spectrum can be among the most rewarding and challenging life experiences. For many couples personal histories can become entangled, communication can break down, and the spark that once brought you together can feel like it’s nowhere to be found.
Dr. Matthew Silverstein uses Dialogue Therapy, a powerful and effective Integrative Depth Psychological strategy designed to provide tools to help intimate couples:
- Learn to skillfully navigate conflict
- Listen to each other with greater curiosity and compassion
- Build intimacy and sexual connection
Strategies to Affirm Cultural Identities, Bodies, and Knowledge
In an increasingly polarized society many people are looking for a therapeutic space in which their cultural identities and ancestries can be honored and thought about. This is true across identities.
Here are a few culturally affirming strategies Dr. Matthew Silverstein implements:
- Detangling from internalized patterns of injustice and misinformation, such as internalized racism, sexism, homophobia or transphobia
- Exploring ancestral and cultural knowledge
- Unpacking whiteness and reclaiming forgotten ancestries
- Navigating multiple intersecting identities (e.g. race, spirituality, gender, and class)
What is LGBTQ Affirmative Therapy?
As an outgrowth of a generation of LGBTQ civil rights advocacy and research, LGBTQ affirmative therapy works with practices that proactively honor and respect Queer, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Non-Binary, and Allied individuals, families, and communities, as well as our unique histories, cultures, and spiritualities.
The targeting of gender and sexual minorities through escalating negative attitudes, misinformation, and social policy is an insidious source of stress for LGBTQ+ individuals and those who love them. Moreover, this stress can be on top of coping with difficulties from the past or in current relationships resulting in feeling stuck, powerless, exhausted, angry, or scared. In this state, it’s easy to go into auto-pilot mode and check out from our intimate partners, family, friends, or even oneself.
My LGBTQ Affirmative Commitment
As a member of the LGBTQ community, I’m committed to providing LGBTQ people and allies with a safe, nurturing space to heal and grow, drawing on years of teaching, clinical practice, and community service. Here’s how:
- Honoring LGBTQ ways of being
- Respecting the intersections of LGBTQ and other cherished cultural identities
- Staying current and rooted in evidence-based practices
What are the Benefits of Working with a Qualified Integrative Depth Psychologist Like Dr. Matthew Silverstein?
The journey of professionally guided self-exploration, whether done individually or as a couple, is meant to guide you toward known and newly discovered resources inside of yourself and within your most meaningful relationships.
As a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience both in community mental health and in private practice settings, I bring my commitment to share with you what I have learned (and unlearned) over these years.
My work as an integrative depth psychologist—bringing together strategies from the most effective approaches—allows me to confidently focus on my top goal: supporting you in feeling more empowered and able to live your life to the fullest.
My Credentials
- Licensed clinical psychologist (California and New York)
- Extensive experience in community mental health and private practice
- Cross-trained in effective, evidence-based, and time-honored modalities
Professional Testimonials
Matt’s individual and group work in our UCLA adult partial hospital and intensive outpatients programs was outstanding. His warmth, creativity and attention to detail enhanced the quality of the care we delivered. Our patients and our staff were all impressed with the depth and range of his clinical skills. I am grateful for his contributions to the program.
Dr. Silverstein is a special kind of therapist not only kind and highly empathic but incredibly smart, exceptionally trained, and on top of the latest advancements in depth and spiritual psychology, mindfulness, trauma treatment and LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy. I cannot recommend him enough.
Matt possesses a number of traits that are pretty rare in combination– obvious intelligence, deep intuitiveness, and endless curiosity. He’s decent and dedicated too by the way.
With his keen intelligence coupled with ethical discernment and compassion, Matt provides not only a role model for students, but also for fellow faculty.
Telehealth Accessible
While I’m based in Los Angeles, I provide therapy sessions via telehealth to California and New York residents. Please contact me to schedule your initial free consultation and take the next step towards healing and empowerment.