Bin Goldman, PsyD

We're all just walking each other home. - Ram Dass

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Why Bin Goldman, PsyD chose to be in the helping profession

I was volunteering at a bereavement weekend at Camp Simcha, sitting with children who had lost siblings to cancer. Their parents listened to a psychologist speak about grief—validating feelings no one else had understood, giving them permission to be with their pain. I watched their faces change as they were finally seen.
That's when I knew: I wanted to be someone who could create that kind of space—where people feel seen, understood, and allowed to be exactly where theyaI was volunteering at a bereavement weekend at Camp Simcha, sitting with children who had lost siblings to cancer. Their parents were listening to a psychologist speak about grief, validating feelings no one else had understood and giving them permission to sit with their pain. I watched their faces change as they were finally seen, as something unspoken was gently named and held. In that moment, I felt the power of what it means to create space for someone’s truth.

That was when I knew I wanted to be someone who could offer that kind of space, a place where people feel seen, understood, and allowed to be exactly where they are. I grew up with two parents who were therapists, and I witnessed firsthand what it looks like to truly help people in honest and meaningful ways. I also know what it means to struggle and to find your way through when things feel uncertain or overwhelming. What I witnessed growing up and what I have lived myself come together in how I show up today, grounded, compassionate, and deeply committed to walking alongside people as they navigate their own path. are.
Both of my parents were therapists, and I grew up watching what it meant to truly help people. I also know what it means to struggle and find your way through. Those two things together—what I witnessed and what I've lived—have shaped how I work.

Bin Goldman, PsyD's approach

Your experiences and symptoms make sense. They are adaptations—ways your system learned to survive, protect you, and manage what once felt unmanageable. Therapy isn’t about erasing them. It’s about helping those protective strategies evolve so they can support you rather than run your life. My approach is relational and trauma-informed, integrating Internal Family Systems, somatic work, cognitive and behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. These tools are always in service of something deeper: understanding what’s happening in your nervous system and how you are making meaning of it in real time.

I am interested in what it’s like to be you—how your mind, body, history, relationships, and inner world all intersect to shape your experience. You are not a collection of symptoms to fix; you are a whole person navigating a complex human experience. Rather than trying to get rid of parts of you, we work toward understanding them with compassion, so they no longer have to run your life from the background. Much of our work is about developing a different relationship with your inner world—your emotions, your body, and the parts that learned to survive hard things.

For some people, spirituality naturally intersects with their struggles and their healing, speaking to the same human experience in different languages. For others, it is not part of the work at all, and I follow your lead on whether we engage with that dimension. Everything happens inside the relationship between us. You need to feel safe enough to explore hard places, and I bring deep empathy, presence, and often a bit of humor to that process. Therapy isn’t about being “fixed” by an expert; it’s about creating the conditions where your own capacity for insight, healing, and growth can emerge.

What you can expect from sessions with Bin Goldman, PsyD

You can expect a space where you are taken seriously, listened to fully, and met with warmth and respect. I will be fully present—curious about your inner world, your story, and what brought you here. This is a space where your experiences matter, and where you can show up as you are without needing to perform or protect yourself.

Together, we’ll explore the patterns that keep you stuck—repetitive thoughts, strong emotional reactions, relational dynamics, and protective strategies that once served you but no longer do. We’ll build practical tools you can use in daily life while also going deeper to understand the emotional and relational roots of these patterns. Some of the work will be reflective and insight-oriented, and some will be experiential, helping you notice what’s happening in your body and nervous system so you can feel more grounded and safe.

We’ll explore the different parts of you: the part that worries, the part that gets angry, the part that feels ashamed, and the part trying to hold everything together. Part of the work is helping these parts relate to one another with curiosity and compassion instead of conflict. We’ll also work on how you relate to your thoughts, noticing when a thought is just a thought, not a command or a truth. That subtle shift—from “I am a failure” to “I’m having the thought that I’m a failure”—can change everything.

Real-world problem-solving is also part of our work. Whatever’s happening in your life—the conflict at work, the decision you’re stuck on, the conversation you need to have—we’ll approach it together, not just processing feelings but figuring out what to do. We’ll track what your body is telling you: the tightness in your chest, the impulse to shut down, the moment you disappear from the room even while sitting there. Sometimes we’ll talk and make sense of things; other times we’ll focus on body-based work—grounding, resourcing, or simply letting feelings be without words.

The real work happens in the relationship between us. You’ll learn that you can be fully seen without being rejected, that boundaries can exist and the relationship will survive, and that repair is possible. You’ll leave with tools and language for what’s happening inside you, but more importantly, you’ll develop a different relationship with yourself—less shame, more compassion, and the capacity to stay present when things get hard. The work is collaborative: we think together, feel together, problem-solve together. You’ll feel safe enough to explore difficult places, supported enough to grow, and respected enough to become more fully yourself.

Bin Goldman, PsyD's experience working with the Jewish community

I’ve worked within the frum community for nearly twenty years, both in private practice and through community organizations serving Jews from a wide range of backgrounds. I facilitate groups with Ray of Hope for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and serve as a trauma specialist on Ohel’s trauma response team. I’ve also held administrative roles at ACHIEVE, among other positions. These experiences have given me a nuanced understanding of many communities—heimish, chassidish, yeshivish, modern Orthodox, and Sephardic. I understand each community’s identity, values, and approaches, as well as the threads they share in common.

I know the real pressures people face: shidduchim anxiety, the weight of being the only frum person in your family or the only one who isn’t, religious OCD versus religious trauma, raising children while questioning everything, or navigating differences in observance with a spouse. I understand the isolation of being gay in a community where that feels impossible, and the challenge of staying connected to emunah after being hurt by people who claimed to represent it. As a frum clinician and therapy client myself, I know how important it is for a therapist to truly understand what you mean when you talk about your experiences. Therapy isn’t just about symptoms and interventions—it’s about supporting a whole person in the context of their life, values, and world.

At the same time, no two people in a community are the same. Everyone has their own relationship with community norms, with emunah, with how and how much they fit in. I use shared understanding as shorthand when it helps, but I also practice careful curiosity. What I share with you as a Jew runs deeper than any differences between us, but no matter how similar your upbringing or community affiliation might be to mine, I approach each person as a unique individual, committed to learning who you are and how best to support you.

Bin Goldman, PsyD's Book Recommendation Zone

• How Can I Help? by Ram Dass
  This is the book my father gave me before I started graduate school. It shaped my identity as a therapist, teaching me that healing is less about having answers and more about being fully present with another person, with humility and compassion.
• Living in the Presence: A Jewish Mindfulness Guide to Everyday Life – R' Benjamin Epstein, PhD
  This book brings together mindfulness and Jewish spiritual wisdom to show how the present moment is not just a psychological practice, but a gateway to meaning and connection with the Divine. With clarity and warmth, Epstein offers a practical path to living with greater awareness, helping the ordinary moments of daily life become a place of presence, purpose, and holiness.
• Attached: Connecting to Your Creator – R' Yaakov Danishefsky, LCSW
  This book integrates attachment theory and Jewish spirituality, showing how our patterns of connection in relationships are reflected in—and can be healed through—our relationship with G-d, and how restoring safety, trust, and attunement supports healing on both psychological and spiritual levels.
• The Gift of Therapy – Irvin Yalom, MD
  A deeply human look at what actually heals in therapy: presence, honesty, and the real relationship between two people in the room. Yalom’s writing reflects the belief that it is not just techniques, but being truly seen, understood, and met with authenticity that allows change to unfold.
• Undoing Aloneness – Diana Fosha
  This book explores how deep emotional healing happens through being truly seen, understood, and accompanied in the presence of another. It reflects the idea that safety, attunement, and connection are not just supportive of therapy, but are themselves profoundly healing—allowing people to move from isolation and self-protection toward trust, integration, and a felt sense of not being alone with what they carry.

Approaches

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• FLASH Technique
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• KAP
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Narrative Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Psychological Testing and Evaluation
• Supervision Services
• Trauma Focused Therapy

Concerns

• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Bereavement & Grief
• Depression
• Divorce/Separation
• Emotion regulation
• LGBTQIA, gender, & sexuality topics
• Life purpose and meaning
• Parenting
• Relationships
• Religious Identity Issues
• Stress management
• Testing and Evaluation
• Transitions & Change
• Trauma

16 years in practice

Licenses

• Licensed clinical psychologist by NY 2014. License number 020617
• Licensed clinical psychologist by NJ 2015. License number 35SI00549600

Degrees

• Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) by Rutgers University - GSAPP 2010

Awards

• Excellence Fellowship by Rutgers University 2005

Certificates

• Certified Trauma Professional by Evergreen certifications 2020
• Certified Adolescent Trauma Professional by Evergreen certifications 2020
• Trauma-Focused CBT by Medical University of South Carolina 2025

Trainings

• Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) by Yale Child Study Center 2022
• IFS Immersion Training by PESI 2022
• FLASH Technique by Trauma Institute 2023
• Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD by Dr. Kathleen Chard (treatment developer) 2026

Average costs per session

$275 - $350

Payment Methods

• Sliding Scale
• Free consultation
• Cash
• Zelle Quick Pay