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About

Arden Greenspan-Goldberg, is a nationally known family and marriage psychotherapist who maintains a private practice in New City, New York and New York City. Her areas of specialization include parenting, performing arts, eating disorders, sport psychology, GLBTQQ youth, women, men, teen and young adult issues. She has her Masters in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of N.Y. and two Certificates in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York.

As an adjunct professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College she taught psychology of women, introduction to eating disorders and treatment of eating disorders. She is a sought after speaker for Churches, Temples, profit, non-profit agencies, corporate, college, high school, middle and elementary schools.

Arden has been a guest talk and radio show expert and has appeared numerous times on The View, John Walsh, Sally Jesse, Maury Povich, Gordon Elliot, Ricki Lake, The People's Court, MSNBC, Local N.Y. TV stations, Fox 5 and Channel 11, Chicago Fox, NBC, WGN TV and WGN Radio in Chicago, KCAL in Los Angeles, Fox TV in San Francisco and San Diego, KNSD TV San Diego, and Kiss FM Radio in San Francisco, CW 1 Hartford, CT, WRAL TV Raleigh, N.C..

February 1997 Arden was profiled in the Rockland Journal News as a "Role Model in Rockland." She has been interviewed by Ladies Home Journal Magazine, "Can This Marriage Be Saved," Women's Own magazine, Family Circle and Body by Jake.


Publications

• What Do You Expect? She's A Teenager! A Hope and Happiness Guide for Moms with Daughters ages 11-19, Sourcebooks August 1, 2011.
• Health Counseling: Practice and Application, J. Donnelly, ed. Wadsworth-Thompson.
Chapter co-author, January, 2003. "Health Compromising Behaviors: Smoking, Drinking, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Internet Addiction, Self-Mutilation.
• "Ask Arden": monthly advice column and "teen talk" monthly discussion group: Rockland Journal News, Gannett Publication 1997-1999.
• Eating Disorders in the Athlete, N.I.P. Professional Association Newsletter, April 1991.

• Aerial Parenting: Learn how to be a more loving, empathic, attuned parent while strengthening your connection and enhancing your bond with your child, tween and teen daughter and son.
• Aerial Parenting your toddler: Learn how to set age appropriate expectations, reasonable limits and boundaries, deal with temper tantrums while using the anti-punishment approach.
• Cyberbullying/harrassment/hazing: What a parent needs to know and do. How to identify if your child is being cyber bullied, and scapegoated. Who bullies? Becoming your child's advocate. New Laws.
• Technology and Sex: What you tween/teen is into and up to and how a parent can deal.
• The Myth of the Barbie Doll and the Man of Steel: Body Image and the Myth of Perfection: Media's impact on ourselves our children, tweens and teens.
• The ABC's of Eating Disorders: Warning Signs, Intervention, Prevention and Recovery: What a friend can do. Tips for parents and coaches and kids.
• Eating Disorders and the Male and Female Athlete: Binge Eating Disorder, Body Dysmorphia, Exercise Bulimia, Anorexia, Female Tri-Athlete Syndrome in teens and young adults. Tips for parents and coaches and kids.
• Self Mutilation among our youth: Addiction, Treatment and Prevention. Dual Diagnosis Eating Disorder, body dysmorphia.
• Incest and Pedophilia: Incidence, What to do if your child is sexually molested. What is PTSD? First hand accounts to foster your helping your child step up, share, report, work to prosecute the offender. The long road to recovery, never again, becoming the advocate.
• Date and Acquaintance Rape: Not for Women only
• Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Rock N Roll: What are Rainbow parties, pharm. parties, learn about the deadly mixture of alcohol and oxycontin and more...Risky behaviors and Risk prevention tips.