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Steven N. Gold, PhD (he/him/his)

Clinical Psychologist
Independent Practice; Professor Emeritus Nova Southeastern Univ.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Steven N. Gold, PhD received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Michigan State University in 1981. From 1980 until 1982 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Central Michigan University. He is Professor Emeritus at the Center for Psychological Studies of Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1990 he founded the Trauma Resolution and Integration Program (TRIP) at NSU, a doctoral training program, community clinic, and research center specializing in trauma and dissociation; he served as Director of TRIP until his retirement from the university in 2020. Gold served as president of ISSTD in 2004 and as president of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Trauma Psychology in 2009. He was the inaugural editor of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology’s scientific journal, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy from 2008 through 2014. In 2020 Gold was the recipient of the ISSTD Cornelia B. Wilber Award for clinical excellence in the field of dissociation, and in 2020 he received the Lifetime Achievement Awards of ISSTD and the APA Division of Trauma Psychology. Gold has published and presented on abuse, trauma, dissociation, hypnotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy, and been an invited speaker on these topics throughout the United States and in Argentina, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Spain and Switzerland. He is author of Not Trauma Alone and of Contextual Trauma Therapy, was Editor-in-Chief of the two volume APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology and is a co-editor of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future. He has maintained an independent clinical and forensic practice since 1983 and is regularly retained as an expert witness in legal cases in which trauma and dissociation appear to be relevant issues.

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