Since 1990, Susan Steinberg-Oren, PhD has been a clinical psychologist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System (VAGLAHCS) where she has worked in many different areas including Substance Abuse, Women’s Mental Health, Trauma, and Comprehensive and Integrative Health. In 2010, she started her own deep dive into mindfulness where she found wisdom and healing not afforded to her through traditional psychology training or technique. She became a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) trained teacher through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion in 2020 and has provided MSC groups to Veterans ever since. She became a certified Mindfulness Teacher in 2021 through InsightLA. She is currently the Co-Director of the Integrative Health and Healing Program at VAGLAHCS where she provides a variety of mindfulness and expressive therapy groups. On the weekends, she loves to hike or bike, taking in the beauty of Southern California.
Events with Susan Steinberg-Oren
Cultivating Kindness: A Women's Retreat of Mindful Self-Compassion through Practice, Writing, and MovementSeptember 25 - 28, 2025
A retreat for women and women-identified folks. Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on September 10, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org. Through mindful self-compassion, reflective writing, and movement, we will connect with each other and ourselves, cultivating and deepening our capacity to move through our lives with loving awareness. Come together with other women and woman-identified folks to explore practices that help us find compassion and kindness when we face stressful situations, painful emotions, and challenging relationships. Our framework builds upon…