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Who We AreAbout Union Street Health AssociatesWe are a clinical resource center providing service to individuals, organizations, business and communities. Our services include individuals, couples, child and group psychotherapy, and utilize community resources for alternative and complementary medicine. Our therapeutic approaches to healing the mind, body and spirit combine thorough grounding in clinical skills with the arts, imagery, movement, and meditation to reduce stress, depression, loss and grief, and enhance creativity and well-being. The Union Street Health Associates focuses on the interaction between the mind and body, and spirit and how they affect psychological and physical health. We use the arts, movement and imagery to promote our natural capacity to know ourselves and to improve our health and well-being. At the Union Street Health Associates, we believe in the innate tendency of all living things to heal themselves. We work with the natural healing life force of mind, body and spirit to restore and maximize health. Using holistic care, we empower people to be creative participants in their own healing process. We are a clinical resource center providing services to individuals, organizations, businesses, and communities. Our services include individual couples and group psychotherapy. Our mind/body and spiritual approaches combine thorough grounding in clinical skills with a use of the arts, imagery, movement, meditation to reduce stress, depression, loss and grief, and to enhance creativity and well-being. Participants in our groups have observed expanded aliveness, self-awareness, and resiliency. What We PracticeAt Union Street Health Associates, we provide an opportunity to discover your own healing stories, imagination, and soul in everyday life. We help people create their own healing rituals and rites of passage for medical, psychological or spiritual difficulties, and take charge of their lives and medical care. We work with children to explore issues of body image, self-esteem, and hyperactivity. We provide personalized psychotherapy for those in major life transitions such as career, relationships and facing or recovering from life-threatening illnesses. ProgramsThe Staff at Union Street Health Associates provides workshops and consultation in the following areas: Arts Medicine Training Programs for health professionals. CEU workshops in Arts Medicine: Psychotherapeutic Use of the Arts. Increase Your Healing OptionsMore Americans are practicing preventive health, and are combining the best of traditional methods with complementary practices. From these programs you will: Most insurance accepted, sliding scale available. Arts MedicineThe arts - dance, music, and imagery - have been used since ancient times for human understanding and healing. Our MissionUnion Street Health Associates is dedicated to the personal, emotional and developmental well-being of our clients through an integrated mind-body-spirit therapeutic approach. We empower clients, colleagues and educators to be reflective persons and effective collaborators who, when faced with challenges, will be prepared to assess the needs of themselves, their clients and students to effect the best course of action. About Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT
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"I have been honored to co-facilitate a pilot group with Ilene. The program has provided a fabulous opportunity for me to learn about program administration, creating collaborative relationships with team members, and to keep developing my clinical skills. Best of all I have been privileged to work with a leading figure in the field of dance therapy. Thank you!" "Ilene Serlin is a true seeker who will generate new knowledge about the human condition and explore the practical applications of this new understanding in the daily issues that confront her." Dear Dr. Ilene A. Serlin, It was very nice to meet you at the Existential Psychology Conference in Nanjing, China. ... You are a magician in my mind and lead me to a new way of psychology. I believe that Whole-person Therapy will be the trend of psychology. Because I felt that people were cured not only by the effort on mind, but also on body and soul from your workshop. I can feel the power but can't express it clearly by words. It's marvelous. Frankly speaking, I admired you so much. I hope I could be a counsellor like you one day. I never see you as a idol but a beacon. When I give up my dream to be a counsellor, I will recall you. ... I much appreciated your lectures and the workshop and the private conversation. All of these make me feel and think a lot. Thank you very much. Best regards, |
Dr. Ilene Serlin is a clinical psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist . She is the founder and Director of Union Street Health Associates and the Arts Medicine Program at California Pacific Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past President and Council Representative of the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, on the Editorial Boards of the Arts in Psychotherapy, the American Journal of Dance Therapy, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and has taught and published widely in the US and abroad.
Dr. Daniel Gaylinn is a clinical Psychology Assistant offering Psychotherapy and Psycho-Diagnostic Evaluations for Adolescents, Adults, and Couples under the licensed supervision of Dr. Ilene Serlin. Dr. Gaylinn is the Executive Director and Board Member for the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and has been a guest editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
He has been an assistant teacher for courses on the advanced psychotherapy technique, Psychosynthesis, at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, and for the advanced meditation practice, Prayer of the Heart, at Esalen Institute. He has published on the topic of media psychology, serves as a consultant to filmmakers and producers, and has several consulting and co-production credits including one for In the Heart of the Deathless, a contemplative documentary film about waking up to life by confronting one's own mortality.