Description
This is a process-oriented group, meaning that the focus in sessions is not on a particular topic or the development of specific skills, but rather on observing how members experience one another and the interactions between them - what thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns emerge, and how these patterns relate to members' respective family of origin dynamics.
Group Therapist
Dr. David Goldfinger is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Cambridge who specializes in couples therapy. He has more than 25 years of experience in helping clients work through emotional difficulties, cultivate self-awareness, deepen relationships, and live with a greater sense of ease, authenticity, and personal freedom.
David’s approach to psychotherapy, grounded in attachment theory and psychodynamic principles, assumes that our way of experiencing ourselves and the world around us is shaped by our earliest relationships. It is in our families of origin that we develop implicit ideas about who we are, what we can expect from others, and how relationships work. These ideas, while initially adaptive, outlive their usefulness if they are not flexible enough to respond to new situations and opportunities that life presents. In the context of a warm, empathic relationship, David helps his clients develop curiosity about their ways of moving through the world, examining habitual patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior to open up new possibilities and choices.
David received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, and did his postdoctoral training at the MIT Mental Services and Two Brattle Center. He completed a two-year couples therapy training at the Psychodynamic Couple and Family Institute of New England, where he is now on the board and faculty, serving as the Director of Education. David has also been a clinical instructor for Harvard Medical School and a training instructor and regular speaker at the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy.
