Our Company

La Casa Day Spa and La Casa Resort Spa, are all based on the concept of 5elements healing. We believe that the earth is an abundance of riches: Mother Earth has every ingredient, every substance that is necessary for the maintenance and the restoration of health. We believe that using the 5 elements in our daily lives gives a profound sense of awareness of and trust to this earth we share with all its other living beings.

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Our Director

La Casa's director and owner, Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D., is a preeminent authority on mind/body health.

Dr. Goldberg is a psychoanalyst in private practice and serves on the faculties of several psychoanalytic institutes, including the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern New Jersey. She is a founder of the on-line psychoanalytic journal, Convene. As well, she is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals in the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and psychological oncology.

Dr. Goldberg has authored five books: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients; Deceits of the Mind (and their effects on the body); The Dark Side of Love; Insparations (if you can do it at a spa, you can do it at home) and Mothers and Daughters: Love and Meaning in the Search for Separation.

As well as owning and directing La Casa Day Spa, Dr. Goldberg is the founder of La Casa Resort Spa in the Puerto Rican rain forest. She also created 5elementshealing.com - a website that provides information about the ancient tradition of using the riches of earth and the expressions of her elements -- earth, water, fire, air and sky -- for healing. In conjunction with Dr. Julian Neil, Dr. Goldberg developed a questionnaire that determines which element you most emphatically personify as well as which element you are deficient in.

She is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows as well as serving as a consultant for most major health and beauty magazines.

Dr. Goldberg is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in the World, Who’s Who in the East, Who's Who in American Writers, Who's Who of Women International, Who's Who in Medicine, and the International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women.

In 1996, Dr. Goldberg was awarded the International Award of Recognition: 5,000 Personalities of the World. In 1994 she was awarded Most Admired Woman of the Decade by the American Biographical Institute.

Dr. Goldberg is an avid runner and swimmer as well as an advanced belt in Tai Kwon Do.

Our Literature

Since 1986, when Jane Goldberg first founded La Casa Resort Spa in Puerto Rico, then to the founding of La Casa Day Spa, and all the way through to 2001 when she first opened the doors to Insparations, the day spa at the 92nd Street Y, guests and clients have been insistent (and persistent) about their interest in having written material for them to bring back to their homes. They have wanted health recipes from La Casa Resort Spa, information on detoxification, the rationale for which water should be drunk – all the material that is in the hearts and minds of the staff of her spas. In response to that demand, Dr. Goldberg have written a book: Insparations: if you can do it at a spa, you can do it at home.

There is a saying in Puerto Rico which reflects the warmth and hospitality of its people: mi casa, su casa; my house is your house. We would like to reverse that saying: su casa, mi casa; your house is my house. We would like to give to people the knowledge that will enable them to transform their own homes into their own version of our spas. We feel that this is the greatest gift we can give.

Over the years, Dr. Goldberg has read, researched and studied most of the world’s traditions of natural healing, nutrition and methods of detoxification. In her book, she has integrated and implemented what she considers to be the best and most effective aspects of these approaches. We have found that even a short exposure to her program of 5 elements healing is rejuvenating and brings to its participants a soul-deep calmness.

Dr. Goldberg is the author of three other published books: Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients; Deceits of the Mind (and their effects on the body); and The Dark Side of Love: the positive role of our negative emotions. Her two most recent books -- Mother and Daughters: Love and Meaning in the Search for Separation and The Project: 9 + or - 2 are both forthcoming.