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Union Street Health Associates

(415) 931-3819
2084 Union St., San Francisco, California 94123
244 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley, California 94941

Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT
iserlin@ileneserlin.com

With psychological assistants

Dan Gaylinn, Ph.D, CHT (PSB 35036)
dr.dan.gaylinn@gmail.com

Aristide "Steven" Pappas (PSB 35886)
stevenpappas415@yahoo.com





Union Street Health Associates focuses on the interaction between mind and body, and the ways in which emotional, mental, and spiritual elements can affect psychological and physical health. It uses the arts, movement and imagery to promote our natural capacity to understand ourselves and improve our health and well-being.

Union Street Health Associates offers an integrated mind/body and spiritual approach to therapy, consulting, training, teaching and supervision. We work with groups, couples, and individuals to help them discover their own unique healing process.



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From: "Psychology Today Blogs" [blogs@psychologytoday.com]
Date: January 24, 2011 7:36:13 AM PST
To: iserlin@ileneserlin.com
Subject: [Psychology Today] Your Recent Post Is Now an Essential Read in Therapy

We wanted to let you know that your recent blog post

The King's Speech, Trauma, and Good Psychotherapy

has been chosen as an "Essential Read" in Therapy. ...
Thanks for your great contributions,

Psychology Today Editors


Dear Dr. Serlin:

The San Francisco Psychological Association (SFPA) would like to thank you so much for the lively and informative Continuing Education presentation "The Place of Mind/Body Therapies in Clinical Practice" which you made to our members on June 2, 2006. Your talk was a highlight of our training year. The fact that we have been able to offer programs of such quality to our members has been an incentive for new members to join SFPA. We are so grateful for your contributions to SFPA.

Sincerely,

Megan Lehmer, Ph.D.,
President, San Francisco Psychological Association

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ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS


PEC Connect blog PEC Connect blog
Dr. Serlin hosts a blog for subscribers of PEC Connect online. Recent article:
Wellness Fair: A Kick-Off Partnership

Teaching caregivers how to overcome second-hand trauma. Dr. Serlin and her colleague Dr. Eleanor Pardess presented this breakthrough study at the recent APA annual convention in Washington, DC. Read article

Wellness Fair: A Kick-Off Partnership, is Dr. Serlin's featured article in the summer 2011 issue of the Marin County Psychological Association Newsletter. Read article

Marriage Guide for the Quarter-Life Crisis Dr. Serlin's review of Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage, is featured for discussion in the July 26, 2011 issue of PsycCRITIQUES Blog.
Read the blog     Read the review

Trauma and the Arts
A review by Dr. Serlin of Stephen K. Levine's Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering. In PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books, May 2010
Read review

Psychology Today blog
Dr. Serlin hosts a blog at Psychology Today online.
Psychology Today blog
Recent articles:
• Mid-Life Crisis–Myth or Reality? Turning Crisis into Wisdom
• The King's Speech, Trauma, and Good Psychotherapy
• Black Swan: Body Image and Eating Disorders

The Benefits of Dance Therapy
Read an interview with Dr. Serlin about the new and emerging field of dance therapy. In the Associated Content blog, February 2, 2011.

Hear Dr. Serlin's interview with Serge Prengel from the USABP Somatic Perspectives series:

A Tribute to Rollo May and the Arts and Rollo May on Existential Psychotherapy
Two articles by Dr. Serlin published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, October 2009.

Treating War Trauma in Israel
An article by Dr. Serlin published in the American Psychological Association Div. 56 Trauma Psychology Newsletter, Fall 2008.
Read article

Monitor cover On PTSD
Dr. Serlin's letter to the editor of the American Psychological Association Monitor, pub. March 2008.
Read letter

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