Gabrielle Kaufman
MA, LPCC, BC-DMT, NCC, PMH-C
Gabrielle Kaufman, MA,LPCC,BC-DMT,NCC,PMH-C (she/her/hers), is a dance/movement therapist and licensed professional clinical counselor with over 30 years experience. For more than ten years, she was clinical director of Maternal Mental Health NOW. Prior to this, she was as director of the New Moms Connect Program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles providing services to new parents, particularly those suffering from symptoms of postpartum depression. She is bilingual in Spanish.
Ms. Kaufman has worked extensively with new families and aided in providing solutions for many parenting concerns. She has run several programs for high-risk children and teens, taught classes to parents of newborns and toddlers, and has run support groups for single parents and women with postpartum depression. She developed a manual for clinicians on screening and treatment of perinatal depression and a web-based application for expectant and new parents.
Gabrielle works intimately with each client to determine their goals and barriers. She believes that with the formation of a reciprocal alliance, lasting change can happen. Ms. Kaufman’s passionate belief is that individuals deserve access to the tools, support and resources necessary to successfully manage their life challenges and transitions with empowerment and determination.
Gabrielle is on faculty with PSI/2020 Mom, the Arts and Healing Initiative and Drexel University. She serves on the advisory boards for Hasidah (an organization helping families struggling with fertility) and Love, Dad (a non-profit supporting fatherhood,) and as Los Angeles coordinator for Postpartum Support International.
Gabrielle has provided clinical training to over 15,000 healthcare professionals, doctors, policy makers and child welfare professionals. She has also published articles, been interviewed on TV/Media/Radio as a subject matter expert and provides consultation in the fields of education and healthcare. A dynamic and engaging speaker, Gabrielle’s presentations have included addressing crisis intervention, providing clinical supervision, navigating conflict resolution, overcoming parenting challenges, management of workplace burnout, and understanding mental health interventions. Her approach to learning is based on trauma informed, culturally humble practices using creative and mind/body interventions.
For more information about clinical supervision or speaking opportunities, email gk @ gabriellekaufman.com.
Carmit Zur, MSW,LCSW
Carmit Zur, MSW, LCSW completed her undergraduate degree from UCLA and received her Master’s in Social Work degree from USC. She has over 15 years of experience working as a social worker and psychotherapist in a number of settings including private practice, Jewish Family Service, and university settings. Carmit believes that meaningful and caring interaction allows for healing and growth through life transitions and challenges.
Carmit works with adults (over the age of 18) on issues including life challenges, bereavement, transitions, stress, perinatal mental health, developmental disabilities, depression and anxiety.
She can be reached at (424) 479-8472.
Theoretical Approaches
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This focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient's life.
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A type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged in order to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders such as depression.
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Mindfulness therapy is focused on increasing our awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and actions that hinder our progress.
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Based on the empirically supported premise that the body, mind and spirit are interconnected, the American Dance Therapy Association defines dance/movement therapy as the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual.
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Interpersonal psychotherapy is a brief, attachment-focused psychotherapy that centers on resolving interpersonal problems and symptomatic recovery.
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Solution-focused therapy is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients' responses to a series of precisely constructed questions.
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Areas of Specialization
As a certified perinatal mental health clinician, Gabrielle specializes in all aspects of the reproductive journey including fertility treatment, pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum anxiety and depression, paternal postnatal depression, adoption, grief and loss (including miscarriage and infant loss) and menopause. Other areas of specialization include supporting individuals and families through life transitions, parenting concerns, and trauma recovery.
Ms. Kaufman works with adolescents, adults, seniors, and Holocaust Survivors (second and third generation.) Her approach is trauma informed, culturally humble, and tailored to address comfort and personal preferences.
