Dr. Stephen Sideroff

About

Dr. Stephen Sideroff is an internationally recognized psychologist, consultant and expert in resilience, optimal performance, addiction, neurofeedback, stress and mental health. He has published pioneering research in these fields. He is a professor at UCLA and director of the Wallenberg Institute of Ethics. He is the founder & former Clinical Director of the Stress Strategies center of UCLA/Santa Monica Hospital and former Clinical Director of Moonview Treatment and Optimal Performance Center. Dr. Sideroff has produced self-help audio programs along with his book, “The Path: Mastering the Nine Pillars of Resilience and Success” which has been hailed as “A true Bible for living in balance and spirituality.” Participants of Dr. Sideroff’s lectures and workshops have said that the experience was “life-changing”.

The 9 Keys to Resilient Recovery and Maintaining sobriety

A client once said, addiction is like driving down the road in an SUV and every letter, parking ticket, summons, or conflict is thrown into the back of the vehicle. Sobriety is like slamming on the brakes and having everything from the back fall forward into your lap. Recovery is stressful. In...

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How to Effectively Apply Components of Resilience to Reduce...

The pandemic has turned much of the world upside down. The danger, uncertainty, destabilization, and ubiquitous nature of the crisis has ramped up the level of stress. Stress creates fatigue and puts a strain on one’s ability to cope. It results in the impairment of good physiological...

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Resilient Recovery - The ability to self-regulate is at the...

In working with peak performing athletes I found that in preparing them for high pressure situations the more they practiced the basic moves or actions of their sport, making them second nature, the better they handled the pressure. With their ability to perform these basics automatically, it...

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Dr. Stephen Sideroff:

Dr. Stephen Sideroff has been an important part of the addiction treatment community since initiating a research program examining conditioned aspects of addiction, at UCLA and the VA in 1976. For the last 30 years, he has coordinated the Psychiatry department’s certification course in Chemical...

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Resilient Recovery: Importance of establishing...

I believe a common denominator underlying addiction is either the loss of or lack of ever establishing good physiological self-regulation. This impairment sets the stage for addiction vulnerability, makes treatment difficult and once abstinence is established, leaves the addict vulnerable to...

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The Integration of Neurofeedback and Shamanic Approaches in...

Substance abuse behavior appears to have multiple interrelated causes. Predisposing genetic and neurobiological factors interact with family environment dynamics and early trauma to create a personal internal milieu that is primed and sensitized for craving and addictive behaviors. This is...

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From Addiction to Resilience: Tools and Approaches to...

In the first two articles in this series, I presented the first six of the nine pillars facilitating one’s shift from Addiction to Resilience. The first three focus on relationship and begin at the heart of resilience: one’s relationship with himself. The next two are one’s relationship with...

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From Addiction to Resilience: Tools and Approaches to...

Part II: Organismic Balance and Mastery Resilience is a state highlighted by the ability to recover from stress and to optimally deal with the challenges that life delivers. In Part I of this article, we noted the mechanisms by which the addict’s difficulty managing stress results in a greater...

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From Addiction to Resilience – Tools and Approaches to...

Addiction involves a complex array of factors: genetic, biological, social, environmental, and intrapsychic which all have a role to play. Due to this complexity, getting sober is only the beginning of the path toward recovery from addiction. This difficult process is complicated further by the...

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