Individual: 45 minutes; group: 90 minutes

Psychological approaches to health have been documented to promote physical as well as emotional well-being. Treatments are conducted by La Casa’s owner and founder, Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. Both individual as well as group therapy sessions are available.

$200 for individual; $60 for group

Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D.

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.