Berkeley Training Associates is directed by its founder, Stan Taubman, PhD, LCSW.



Stan Taubman, PhD, has served on the faculties of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the University of Southern California, and San Diego State University, and currently, at the University of California.  He has also presented continuing education workshops since 1973.  Dr. Taubman has extensive experience in state LCSW and LMFT license exam preparation nationwide. 

Dr. Taubman is the author of The BTA Treatment Plan Documentation Guide for use in California's Public Behavioral Health Care Services (BTA Publications 2003), Ending the Struggle Against Yourself (Putnam 1994), and numerous other professional publications.

As former Director of the Alameda County (California) Medi-Cal Mental Health Plan and Director, Office of Management Services for the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services for over a decade, Dr. Taubman has been responsible for the Department's Quality Assurance, Program Evaluation, Program Planning and Development, Management Information Systems, Management Reporting and Authorization Services.  He has also served as the Department's Medicare/Medi-Cal and HIPAA Compliance Officer.

Dr. Taubman has provided in-service training and consultation to County Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug, and Social Service Departments throughout California, as well as to a wide variety of hospitals and human service agencies seeking to improve outcome effectiveness, client satisfaction, productivity, regulatory compliance and revenue generation.

His recent workshops have focused on differential diagnosis of mental disorders, treatment planning, clinical documentation, managed care programming, and secular approaches to addressing spirituality in clinical practice, a key issue in Recovery programming for both mental health and alcohol/drug services.

Judi Taubman, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Smith College School of Social Work, Northampton, MA.  She is a psychotherapist with the Crisis Team of the Kaiser-Permanente Mental Health Department in Walnut Creek where she is also the Director of Social Work Training.  A therapist in private practice since 1986, she emphasizes brief psychodynamic psychotherapy and group work interventions.

Ms. Taubman has practiced in a variety of settings including medical, rehabilitation, inpatient psychiatry, family service and community mental health. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, as well as a variety of behavioral and psychodynamic interventions with trauma survivors and people in crisis.

Ms. Taubman specializes in training and consultation for clinical crisis assessment and intervention.  She also has extensive experience in state LCSW and LMFT license exam preparation.

Shoshana Taubman, PsyD is currently also affiliated with Kaiser-Permante Child Psychiatry, Union City-Hayward, CA and Children's Hospital of Northern California, Oakland, CA.  She has previously been engaged in research on gender issues in adolescent conduct disorder at the University of California, San Diego, and has provided psychological services at the Portia Bell Hume Center of Concord, CA, Project Pride of the East Bay Recovery Project (Oakland, CA), and Head Start (Napa, CA).  Her specialty is group psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic testing and assessment of children and youth.

Dr. Taubman is President of the East Bay Learning Disabilities Association, and provides staff development training for child protective services and other child welfare workers on Solution-Focused approaches in working with multicultural families.