Dr. Steve Wolf
Dr. Steve Wolf, Ph.D. has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice in West Los Angeles and has conducted growth workshops throughout the U.S. since 1986. After teaching Anger Management for the past five years he was recently recognized as having Diplomate status by the National Anger Management Association.
He has been an innovator in his profession since co-directing New York City’s first Prison Therapeutic Community Program in Rikers Island Prison’s Psychiatric Ward in 1973 and directing Rikers’ first Therapeutic Community Drug Program for the general prison population in 1974. He has also directed a Day Treatment Center in Litchfield Connecticut, volunteered with the L.A. Sheriff’s Department to co-create Project Turnaround, an Acupuncture Detox program on L.A.’s skid row, assisted in creating an alternative middle school in Topanga California, co-authored “Romancing the Shadow: A guide to Soul work for a Vital Authentic Life (Ballantine, 1997, translated into six languages) , and developed “The Village Circle Project”: leaderless groups for self-exploration. For the past five years he consulted as a Co-Occurring Disorders therapist in Los Angeles working with men coming directly from prison, jail or the street. In 2005 he authored the “Taming Your Anger” and “EQ-101” series of English and Spanish workbooks, C.D.’s and workshops. He is presently teaching the Taming Your Anger/Building Blocks for Emotional Intelligence Method to at-risk teens in Long Beach and is conducting research to evaluate its effectiveness.
Most recently he founded the Wolf Training Institute to train and certify mental health practitioners to teach the Taming Your Anger/ Building Blocks for Emotional Intelligence Program which has been recognized by the National Anger Management Association.
He maintains a therapy practice, working with adolescents, adults and couples in West Los Angeles.
