Good Life Center for Mental Health

Phone Number:
908-956-7880
Office:
830 Morris Turnpike Suite 405
Short Hills, NJ 07078
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Contact:
Craig Springer, PhD

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About

At the Good Life Center for Mental Health we strive to provide the highest quality of care. We begin by working collaboratively with clients to identify the focus and scope of treatment and then utilize best practices to help guide clients toward achieving their therapeutic goals. At the center, clients are viewed as experts on themselves and their experience, and their active participation throughout the therapeutic process is vital for change to take place. In our model, the role of the therapist is to provide ongoing empathy and support to clients while identifying and delivering specific therapeutic methods to bring about rapid alleviation of symptoms. Thus, clients are not passive recipients of treatment, but rather active collaborators in the therapeutic process.

Therapists at the Good Life Center for Mental health are committed to using evidence-based techniques that have been shown to produce measurable results. The therapeutic modalities that are used in our Center have a robust body of research that support their use for the specific problems being addressed.

In addition to relying on empirically sound interventions, the clinicians at the Center utilize testing throughout therapeutic process to assess clients’ changing needs as well as their progress. The results that are obtained before and after sessions provide invaluable information about the therapeutic experience and effectiveness of the services provided, allowing for therapeutic interventions to be tailored according to the clients’ progress and therapeutic experience.

The services provided at the Good Life Center for Mental Health are not only scientifically sound, but are enhanced by an office environment that provides clients with a warm and supportive space where safety and satisfaction of their most basic needs can be met. To read more about our office and environment, click here.

The clinicians at the Center are well-trained in a variety of therapeutic modalities and have extensive expertise in addressing a wide range of difficulties and disorders. Some of the modalities that are clinicians utilize include:

TEAM Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Game-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (GB-CBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Trauma-Informed Interventions

Specialty

Qualifications

Education
Craig Springer, PhD

I am a clinical psychologist and licensed as a practicing psychologist in New York (016741) and New Jersey (35SI00449700) and I am credentialed by the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. I am Level 3 certified in TEAM Therapy and received specialized training in mindfulness, trauma-informed treatments and have an advanced certificate in perinatal mental health. I have been named 2020-2022 New Jersey’s Favorite Kids’ Doc and 2020-2023 Top Doctor by NJTopDocs.

I earned my MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University and completed my undergraduate degree summa cum laude at New York University.

I am currently the co-owner of the Good Life Center for Mental Health. Previously, I was the Director of the Center for Psychological Services, overseeing 10 doctoral training clinics, at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. I was also Co-Director of the New Jersey Coordination Center for Child Abuse and Neglect Forensic Evaluation and Treatment. Prior to that, I served as a Supervising Psychologist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, where I developed a model for treating trauma.

I have experience developing, conducting, supervising, and researching evidence-based psychotherapeutic programs for children, adolescents, and adults. Over the course of my career, I have given over 50 professional presentations and workshops, published numerous theoretical and empirical manuscripts and I co-authored a book entitled “Game-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse: An Innovative Approach.” I served on the Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and was an editorial board member for the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse and reviewer for Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Silvina Falcon-Levine, MSW, LCSW

I have expertise in the assessment and treatment of trauma, anxiety, mood problems, behavioral difficulties, and interpersonal problems. I enjoy working collaboratively with clients to assist them overcome the challenges and difficulties that they are facing.

I am a licensed clinical social worker (New Jersey License #44SC04613000, New York License #092214) and have been providing mental health services for over 25 years. I earned my master’s degree in social work from Rutgers University and completed my clinical internships at Trinitas Regional Medical Center and Bayonne Community Mental Health Center. I have held positions at hospitals and community mental health centers where I provided mental health services to address a wide variety of mental health concerns. I have extensive experience working in individual, group and family therapy to adolescents and adults. I have assisted clients suffering from depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder and body focus repetitive disorders, self–defeating habits and bereavement.

I am fortunate to be able to provide bilingual Spanish services and recognize the impact of multicultural issues in mental health functioning. I have served as a consultant to organizations providing bilingual parent training workshops to Spanish speaking populations. I specialize in working with clients who suffer from mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, and interpersonal difficulties. I utilize a goal-oriented and collaborative approach integrating cognitive-behavioral methods with other empirically sound strategies to tailor treatment to address my clients’ individual needs.

I am trained in EMDR (levels I and II) and I am a Level 3 Certified in TEAM-CBT Therapist. I am also certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I).
In Practice Since
2008
License Number
35SI00449700

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